Transplanted sagebrush “wildlings” exhibit higher survival than greenhouse-grown tubelings yet both recruit new plants

Table 1 Number of live and dead Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana tubelings and wildlings

	# live	# dead since previous census	% survival since previous census
Tubelings (n = 1200)
June, 2020	254	946	0.21
October, 2020	242	12	0.95
July, 2022	222	17	0.93
Wildlings (n = 1195)
June, 2020	1079	116	0.90
October, 2020	1073	6	0.99
July, 2022	977	79	0.93

Planting occurred in October/November of 2019. Tubelings and wildlings were censused in the spring/summer (June 2020) and fall (October 2020) following planting, and in the third summer post-planting (July 2022). For the latter census, 3 tubelings and 17 wildlings that had previously been counted as live (in October 2020) were excluded from calculations because the tags used to identify and track plants were missing or in an unexpected location relative to the plant.

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