Claim · model-written summary
Viscum album attacks young plants and weakened old-growth trees with soft wood.
- Taxon
- Viscum album L.
Viscum albumt0 - Outcome
- attacks young plantse1
- Qualifier
- with unformed bark and weakened old-growth trees with soft woode1
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Verbatim
t0“Distribution of Viscum album L. in Bryansk Oblast”
e1“V. album attacks young plants with unformed bark and weakened old-growth trees with soft wood”
Title
Distribution of Viscum album L. in Bryansk Oblast
N. N. Panasenko; L. N. Anishchenko Contemporary Problems of Ecology 2025. doi:10.1134/s199542552570012x
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Observation Viscum album was registered in 95 of 378 grid squares in Bryansk oblast, versus 8 cells in the 20th century.
- Observation The range of Viscum album in the region expanded in the northeastern direction.
- Observation Viscum album is most often noted in the central, southern, and southeastern regions of Bryansk oblast.
- Observation Viscum album has not been found in the southwestern regions on the Belarus border in the 21st century.
- Observation Viscum album has no finds north of Bryansk in the region.
- Observation Mistletoe has been noted on 29 species of woody plants in Bryansk oblast.
- Observation In natural habitats Viscum album is most often recorded on Betula pendula.
- Observation Within populated areas Viscum album is most often found on Betula pendula and Sorbus aucuparia, among other hosts.
- Observation Viscum album has occasionally been found on Pinus sylvestris and Picea abies.
- Observation Viscum album is confined to forest belts along highways, river valleys, old manor parks, and urban plantings.
- Observation In parkland Viscum album is found mainly on isolated trees that are well lit by the sun.
- Observation Bombycilla garrulus is the main distributor of mistletoe in the region.
- Observation Viscum album spread over the plantings of the entire village territory of Dobrun in 20 years.
- Observation Pregenerative and young generative Viscum album plants predominate in the studied population.