Claim · model-written summary
Heavy mistletoe infestation is suggested to make white fir trees more susceptible to beetle infestation, possibly through moisture stress.
- Taxon
- white fire1
- Treatment
- heavy mistletoe infestatione6
- Outcome
- more susceptible to beetle infestatione6
- Qualifier
- possibly by creating moisture stress in infected treese6
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingDirectionValue
Verbatim
e1“Attacks by Scolytus ventralis on white fir were correlated both with periods of low precipitation and with medium to heavy infestations of true mistletoe”
e6“Data suggest that heavy mistletoe infestation rendered trees more susceptible to beetle infestation, possibly by creating moisture stress in infected trees”
Title
L. S. Felix; B. Uhrenholdt; J. R. Parmeter The Canadian Entomologist 1971. doi:10.4039/ent1031697-12
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Association Attacks by Scolytus ventralis on white fir were correlated with periods of low precipitation.
- Association Attacks by Scolytus ventralis on white fir were correlated with medium to heavy infestations of true mistletoe.
- Association Trees were seldom attacked when the running mean precipitation was above 54 in.
- Association Attacks by Scolytus ventralis were significantly more frequent on trees with substantial amounts of mistletoe.
- Association Attacks by Scolytus ventralis were often a year or more earlier on trees with substantial amounts of mistletoe.
- Observation Broods of Scolytus ventralis were seldom produced on white fir.