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Facilitating Natural Recruitment for Desert Revegetation

2019 Research Brief

Description

Assisted natural regeneration (ANR) is an alternative aimed at encouraging site conditions favorable for natural regeneration through actions such as alleviating limitations on viable seed production, germination, and seedling survival. Two ANR approaches were tested on the Mojave Desert foundation species, the creosote bush.


Contact

Scott Abella, scott.abella@unlv.edu 

Lindsay Chiquoine, lindsay.chiquoine@unlv.edu

Additional Information

Abella, S.R., L.P. Chiquoine, and J.F. Weigand. 2019. Developing methods of assisted natural regeneration for restoring foundational desert plants. Arid Land Research and Management (in press).