Table 4.
Bud bank sizes of grassland communities (number of buds per m2)
| Ambient | Grazed | Burned | Drought | Disturbed soil | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campos grassland (Brazil)1 | Total: 302–398 | Total: 2408 | Total: 1122 | – | – |
| Grass: 171 | Grass: 1418 | Grass: 9 | |||
| Forb: 115 | Forb: 978 | Forb: 933 | |||
| Woody:15.8 | Woody: 12 | Woody: 180 | |||
| Tallgrass prairie (USA) | Total: 7332–13 0453 | Total: 27505–13 0403 | Total: 1830–34102,5,6 | Total: 99003 | Total: 12647 |
| Grass: 3642–10 2003,4 | Grass: 25005–99903 | Grass: 978–33002,5,6 | Grass: 89003 | ||
| Forb: 3702–2 9253 | Forb: 2505–30503 | Forb: 23–8572,5,6 | Forb: 10003 | ||
| Southern mixed-grass prairie (USA) | Total: 581–5956 | – | – | – | – |
| Grass: 544–5766 | |||||
| Forb: 19–376 | |||||
| Short-grass steppe (USA) | Total: 7306 | – | – | – | – |
| Grass:7206 | |||||
| Forb: 106 | |||||
| Desert grassland (USA) | Total: 1466 | – | – | – | – |
| Grass: 1376 | |||||
| Forb: 96 | |||||
| Cultivated monospecific stand of Leymus chinensis | Total: 4008 | – | – | – | – |
| Grass: 4008 | |||||
| Forb: 08 | |||||
| Temperate steppe (Inner Mongolia, China) | Total: 1000–30009 | ||||
| Grass: 500–25009 | |||||
| Forb: 0–6509 |
Peak bud bank densities were used in this table and were estimated from graphs in the literature.
1 Fidelis et al., 2014*; 2Benson et al., 2004; 3VanderWeide and Hartnett, 2015; 4VanderWeide et al., 2014; 5Dalgleish and Hartnett, 2009; 6Dalgleish and Hartnett, 2006; 7Rogers and Hartnett, 2001; 8Zhang et al., 2009; 9Qian et al., 2017.
*Did not include buds of tussock grasses in community estimates.