What to plant for brooding cover | #141

We’re bringing back our episode on indicator plants for evaluating successful brood field management. 

Resources:

• iNaturalist

• Seek

• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses

• Wildlife Food Plots and Early Successional Plants

• GeFellers, J. et al. (2020). Seeding is not always necessary to restore native early successional plant communities. Restoration Ecology, 28(6), 1485-1494.

• Powell, B. L., et al. (2022). Vegetation structure and food availability following disturbance in recently restored early successional plant communities. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 46(5), e1372.

 

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