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Wyckoff, P. H., R. Greiman, A. Krueger, and L. Luce. (Biology Discipline, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN 56267). Forest dynamics at Minnesota's prairie-forest border driven by invasive buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) and native bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa). J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 139: 311–322. 2012.—Quercus macrocarpa Michx. (bur oak) is the key pioneer species as forests establish at the prairie-forest ecotone in western Minnesota, but invasive Rhamnus cathartica L. (European buckthorn) is an abundant and increasing secondary tree. Here we contrast microsite utilization and growth as a function of light and soil moisture for Q. macrocarpa and R. cathartica saplings at an ecotonal forest in an effort to establish the roles these two species are likely to play in near-term forest dynamics. Compared to Q. macrocarpa, R. cathartica saplings are found, on average, in darker microsites (P < 0.001) with higher soil moisture (P < 0.001), though the range of light levels at which saplings were seen to o... |
