Claim · model-written summary
Coreopsis total dry mass per plant was greatest when planted 60 days before the grass.
- Taxon
- Coreopsis tinctoria
Coreopsis tinctoriae0 - Treatment
- 60 d before offsete0
- Interactor
- a C4 Grasst0other
- Outcome
- total dry mass per plante0
- Direction
- greateste0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Coreopsis tinctoria produced the greatest total dry mass per plant in the 60 d before offset”
t0“Priority Effects Allow Coreopsis tinctoria to Avoid Interspecific Competition with a C4 Grass”
Title
Priority Effects Allow Coreopsis tinctoria to Avoid Interspecific Competition with a C4 Grass
K C. Eddy; O. W. Van Auken The American Midland Naturalist 2019. doi:10.1674/0003-0031-181.1.104
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Association Species, offset, and frequency showed significant pairwise interactions.
- Intervention effect Coreopsis was competitively favored when planted 60 days before Bouteloua.
- Intervention effect Bouteloua was competitively favored when planted 30 and 60 days before Coreopsis.
- Mechanism The authors infer a synergistic benefit of spatial gaps and priority effects.