Scott R. Abella

Thumbnail image of Characterizing Soil Seed Banks and Relationships to Plant Communities journal article

Estimates of soil seed banks are important to many ecological investigations and plant conservation, yet seed banks are among the most difficult plant community attributes to accurately quantify.

Thumbnail image of Restoring Desert Ecosystems chapter

A commonality is that ecological restoration is challenging in deserts, because deserts represent extremes of Earth’s climates and precipitation is unreliable. It is not uncommon for some deserts to receive little or no rainfall for an entire year, or even multiple years.

Thumbnail image of Disturbance and Plant Succession in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts in the American Southwest journal article

This study quantitatively reviewed vegetation reestablishment following a variety of disturbances in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of southwestern North America. A total of 47 studies met inclusion criteria for the review.

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