Claim · model-written summary
Soils under wattle canopy were drier after heavy rain.
Verbatim
t0“eucalypts”
e0“the soils were considerably drier under the wattle canopy.”
Title
I. W. Smith; G. C. Marks; G. R. Featherston; et al. Australian Forestry 1989. doi:10.1080/00049158.1989.10674539
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation E. sieberi mortality reached about 50 per cent at Mullungdung within three years.
- Observation E. sieberi mortality reached about 60 per cent at Waygara within three years.
- Observation Mortality among disease-tolerant eucalypts was low.
- Intervention effect Interplanting with wattles significantly increased mean eucalypt height growth.
- Intervention effect Wattle interplanting also increased eucalypt diameter growth at Mullungdung.
- Observation Wattle plots at Waygara showed delayed soil wetting.
- Intervention effect A. longifolia reduced psyllid defoliation of A. botryoides at Waygara.
- Intervention effect Wattle nurse crops did not protect susceptible eucalypts on disease-prone sites.
- Recommendation The authors recommend further examination of wattle interplanting on infertile sites.