Seeds of change: trait shifts over time in wild plant populations revealed using ex situ Seeds of Success collections.

Laura C Shriver¹, Sarah C Barga², Elizabeth A Leger¹

¹Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation Biology, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89557, United States.

²USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, RMRS Shrub Science Lab, 1770 Kitty Hawk Drive, Cedar City, UT 84721, United States.

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Abstract

Seed banking supports conservation, but freshly collected and stored seed may differ in important characteristics. Our resurrection study assessed differences in seedling traits from stored and fresh populations of six native plant species in the Great Basin, where invasive annual grasses increase fire frequency to the detriment of native plants. We evaluated stored seed collected through the Seed…

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