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Vegetation response to invasive Tamarix control in southwestern U.S. rivers: a collaborative study including 416 sites

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Title
Vegetation response to invasive Tamarix control in southwestern U.S. rivers: a collaborative study including 416 sites
Published in
Ecological Applications, July 2017
DOI 10.1002/eap.1566
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Eduardo González, Anna A. Sher, Robert M. Anderson, Robin F. Bay, Daniel W. Bean, Gabriel J. Bissonnete, Bérenger Bourgeois, David J. Cooper, Kara Dohrenwend, Kim D. Eichhorst, Hisham El Waer, Deborah K. Kennard, Rebecca Harms‐Weissinger, Annie L. Henry, Lori J. Makarick, Steven M. Ostoja, Lindsay V. Reynolds, W. Wright Robinson, Patrick B. Shafroth

Abstract

Most studies assessing vegetation response following control of invasive Tamarix trees along southwestern U.S. rivers have been small in scale (e.g., river reach), or at a regional scale but with poor spatial-temporal replication, and most have not included testing the effects of a now widely-used biological control. We monitored plant composition following Tamarix control along hydrologic, soil and climatic gradients in 244 treated and 172 reference sites across six U.S. States. This represents the largest comprehensive assessment to date on the vegetation response to the four most common Tamarix control treatments. Biocontrol by a defoliating beetle (treatment #1) reduced the abundance of Tamarix less than active removal by mechanically using hand and chain-saws (#2), heavy machinery (#3) or burning (#4). Tamarix abundance also decreased with lower temperatures, higher precipitation, and follow-up treatments for Tamarix resprouting. Native cover generally increased over time in active Tamarix removal sites, however, the increases observed were small and was not consistently increased by active revegetation. Overall, native cover was correlated to permanent stream flow, lower grazing pressure, lower soil salinity and temperatures, and higher precipitation. Species diversity also increased where Tamarix was removed. However, Tamarix treatments, especially those generating the highest disturbance (burning and heavy machinery), also often promoted secondary invasions of exotic forbs. The abundance of hydrophytic species was much lower in treated than in reference sites, suggesting that management of southwestern U.S. rivers has focused too much on weed control, overlooking restoration of fluvial processes that provide habitat for hydrophytic and floodplain vegetation. These results can help inform future management of Tamarix-infested rivers to restore hydrogeomorphic processes, increase native biodiversity and reduce abundance of noxious species. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Unknown 75 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 16%
Student > Master 10 13%
Professor 6 8%
Student > Bachelor 4 5%
Other 12 16%
Unknown 16 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 22 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 25%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 20 27%
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#6,731,374
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#1,578
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#100,145
of 317,125 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ecological Applications
#20
of 41 outputs
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