Claim · model-written summary
Sandalwood plantations with 10–40 host species were productive in terms of sandalwood growth.
- Taxon
- Santalum spicatum
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Santalum spicatumt0 - Interactor
- a range of host speciese7host
- Outcome
- productive in terms of sandalwood growthe7
- Value
- 10–40 speciese7
Verbatim
t0“Natural diversity of Santalum spicatum host species in south-coast river systems and their incorporation into profitable and biodiverse revegetation”
e7“Sandalwood plantations, supported by numerous individuals of a range of host species (10–40 species), were shown to be productive in terms of sandalwood growth”
Title
G. S. Woodall; C. J Robinson Australian Journal of Botany 2003. doi:10.1071/bt02118
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Remnant Santalum spicatum populations in the Pallinup River catchment were small, 1–70 trees, and highly fragmented.
- Observation The risk of further population decline due to salinity is small.
- Observation Remnant trees were generally growing on well drained sandy soils about 9 m above their drainage line.
- Observation Santalum spicatum parasitised 68 species from a wide range of genera and families.
- Observation The suite of host species S. spicatum exploited varied within and between river catchments.
- Observation Thirty species, including most monocots and Myrtaceae, were not successfully parasitised by S. spicatum.
- Observation Remnant S. spicatum always occurred on well drained soil types supporting open-woodland or mallee–heath communities.
- Observation The scale of the developing sandalwood plantation industry is likely to be small.
- Observation The sandalwood industry alone is unlikely to address the salinity crisis through broadscale recharge management.
- Intervention effect Biodiverse host plantations may improve the prospects for biodiversity and rivers in salinising landscapes.