Recovery and Resistance: Restoring the wetland plant community after invasive reed control    Tue Sep 19, 2023, Online Webinar

Recovery and Resistance: Restoring the wetland plant community after invasive reed control
Presenter: Dr. Rebecca Rooney, University of Waterloo

For established invasions, like European common reed, reinvasion is a persistent issue. Reliance on repeated herbicide applications to keep invasive plants from becoming dominant again can be expensive and present a real risk to human and environmental health. It can also erode support for management as dominance by the invasive species begins to seem inevitable. We need ecologically sound strategies for supporting native plant community recovery and resisting reinvasion to save precious conservation and restoration resources and to safeguard public and political goodwill. Supporting native plant communities in recovery from invasion through supplementing the seedbank with a blend of native plants whose functional traits combine to resist reinvasion is an experimental strategy worth putting into practice. In pilot work, we found that seeding meadow marsh with native plants after herbicide-based common reed suppression reduced the biomass of non-native plants and increased the floristic quality of recovering plant communities. However, challenges remain in scaling up this approach. In this knowledge exchange session, we will share the lessons we learned from our successes and future challenges that must be addressed to apply this reseeding approach more broadly to maximize the resistance of wetland plant communities to invasive species.

This webinar is free of charge and log in information will be provided on your ticket via email following registration. If you are unable to attend this day, please note the webinars are recorded and will be available for viewing shortly after the webinar concludes at https://vimeo.com/wetlandknowledgeexchange

The Wetland Knowledge Exchange is the official voice of the Canadian and Conservation Land Management Knowledge Network's Wetland Knowledge Portal (WKP). The Wetland Knowledge Exchange aims to amplify the voice of the WKP to help increase information sharing and foster collaboration amongst diverse stakeholders interested in wetland management, conservation and reclamation. Learn about new Canadian wetland research, news, and events by subscribing to our monthly newsletter, tuning in to our monthly webinar series (or view recordings of past webinars), and following us on Twitter @WetlandExchange. For more information, visit our website or contact us at wbf_bmp@ducks.ca.

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