Don't bank on seed banks: study suggests they might not serve as grassland biodiversity reservoirs

As biodiversity loss wreaks havoc on grasslands worldwide, many have hoped that soil seed banks, or seeds stored in the soil waiting to sprout, would act as a biodiversity reservoir, preserving species that are disappearing aboveground.

However, a recent study published in Nature Communications by W.K. Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Plant Biology plant biologist Lauren Sullivan and her team challenges that assumption.

 

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