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Making Restoration More Efficient: Testing the Contributions of Planting Diversity and Introduced Plant Legacy Effects to Recovering Coastal Ecosystems

Abstract

Hypothesis: Plant invaders with an architecture that is novel to the invaded system, will dramatically alter the abiotic and biotic environment through changes to physical properties, primary production food sources and/or living space.

Hypothesis: The addition of organic litter and higher planting diversity, characteristics of a mature system, would lead to faster ecosystem development of soils, plant communities and invertebrate communities after the removal of plant invaders than no litter addition and a monoculture.

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