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Facilitation shifts paradigms and can amplify coastal restoration efforts
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Significance: Restoration is rapidly becoming a key conservation tool to counteract coastal degradation and enhance biodiversity and the provisioning of ecosystem services. This paper shows that the success of wetland restorations can be significantly enhanced through simple, no-cost design changes that harness positive species interactions. Although 96% of restoration organizations we surveyed plant propagules in dispersed arrangements that seek to reduce competition, our cross-continent study using clumped arrangements to harness facilitation challenges this conventional theory. Harnessing previously untapped, but naturally occurring, facilitation through small adjustments in design resulted in significantly higher yields and survivorship with no additional cost. These results highlight the value for the use of facilitation theory in restoration designs and call for integration of this theory into practice.
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- Authors
- Silliman, B. R., Schrack, E., He, Q., Cope, R., Santoni, A., van der Heide, T., Jacobi, R., Jacobi, M., & van de Koppel, J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2015-11-02
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 46
- Pages
- 14295-14300
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W1951661599
- Cited by
- 290
- References
- 52
- FWCI
- 10.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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