Claim · model-written summary
Seedling recruitment and survival were best at the intermediate stocking rate.
- Taxon
- Siratroe6
- Treatment
- intermediate stocking rate (1.7 heifers ha-1)e6
- Outcome
- Seedling recruitment and survivale6
- Direction
- beste6
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Verbatim
e6“Seedling recruitment and survival were best at an intermediate stocking rate (1.7 heifers ha-1), where they were the key to long-term persistence of Siratro”
Title
RM Jones; GA Bunch Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 1988. doi:10.1071/ar9880221
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Stocking rate markedly affected Siratro seed set and seedling demography.
- Intervention effect At the highest stocking rate, Siratro yields were low.
- Intervention effect At the highest stocking rate, seed input ceased after 1972.
- Intervention effect Seedling recruitment from the soil seed bank was appreciable and maintained for a further 10 years at the highest stocking rate.
- Intervention effect Seed set and soil seed reserves were highest at the lightest stocking rate.
- Intervention effect Seedling recruitment was of little importance at the lightest stocking rate.
- Intervention effect Almost all seedlings died at the lightest stocking rate.
- Mechanism Seedling recruitment and survival were the key to long-term persistence of Siratro.
- Observation Soil seed reserves of Siratro were about 500 m-2 under light stocking.
- Observation Soil seed reserves of Siratro were below 100 m-2 after several years of heavy stocking.
- Observation Very little Siratro seed was recovered in cattle faeces.
- Recommendation Studies of this type can help in qualitatively predicting long-term persistence of pasture legumes.