Claim · model-written summary
Taxonomic similarity between S. sebiferum and mixed woodland was 51%.
- Taxon
- Sapium sebiferum
Triadica sebiferae1 - Outcome
- Taxonomic similaritye5
- Value
- 51%e5
- Comparator
- mixed woodlande5
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingDirectionQualifier
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Verbatim
e1“introduced Chinese tallow tree (Sapium sebiferum)”
e5“Taxonomic similarity between S. sebiferum and mixed woodland was 51%”
Title
Entomofauna of the Introduced Chinese Tallow Tree
Guy N. Cameron; Stephen R. Spencer The Southwestern Naturalist 2010. doi:10.1894/jc-28.1
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Arthropod species diversity, richness and abundance were highest in prairie.
- Observation Arthropod species diversity, richness and abundance were higher in mixed woodland than in S. sebiferum.
- Observation Nonmetric multidimensional scaling distinguished arthropod orders and families, and herbivore families, in S. sebiferum from mixed woodland and coastal prairie.
- Observation Fauna from S. sebiferum in 2001 was more similar to mixed woodland than to S. sebiferum samples collected in 1982.
- Association The entomofauna in S. sebiferum appears to have originated from mixed prairie.
- Association Over time the faunas of S. sebiferum became more similar to mixed woodland.
- Observation Species richness and abundance of herbivores were lower in S. sebiferum.
- Observation The proportion of total species in all trophic groups except herbivores was higher in S. sebiferum than in mixed woodland.
- Association Low tannin concentration in leaves did not explain the low leaf loss to herbivores in S. sebiferum.
- Mechanism Lower abundance of herbivores on introduced plants fits the enemy release hypothesis.
- Mechanism Low defence-compound concentration with few herbivores fits the evolution of increased competitive ability hypothesis.