Claim · model-written summary
Relative height and limb size were the most significant crown structural attributes for epiphyte distribution.
- Taxon
- Pseudotsuga menziesii
Pseudotsuga menziesiie1 - Organ / stage
- limbe0
- Outcome
- epiphyte distributione0
- Qualifier
- Relative height and limb sizee0
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Verbatim
e0“Relative height and limb size were the most significant structural attributes influencing epiphyte distribution.”
e1“Pseudotsuga menziesii trees”
Title
Joel P. Clement; David C. Shaw Ecoscience 1999. doi:10.1080/11956860.1999.11682525
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Association Diameter at breast height was a useful estimator of crown structural complexity.
- Observation Epiphytes averaged 27.1 kg per tree.
- Observation Alectorioid lichens dominated epiphyte biomass at 19.3 kg per tree.
- Observation Other lichens had 3.3 kg per tree.
- Observation Bryophytes had 2.6 kg per tree.
- Observation Cyanolichens had 1.9 kg per tree.
- Observation The foliage region had the highest lichen biomass, 16.4 kg per tree.
- Observation Branches had 8 kg per tree of lichen biomass.
- Observation Trunks had 2.6 kg per tree of lichen biomass.
- Observation Alectorioid lichens predominated in the upper, middle and outer crown.
- Observation Lower and inner crowns had a more equal distribution of four epiphyte groups.
- Association Limb size strongly affected bryophyte distribution regardless of height.
- Association Height, crown length, trunk surface area and exposure, branch distribution and exposure determined epiphyte distribution and abundance.