Claim · model-written summary
Sewage sludge increased pine seedling growth relative to other soil treatments.
- Taxon
- Loblolly pine
Pinus taedae1 - Treatment
- Sewage sludgee0
- Outcome
- pine seedling growthe0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- other soil treatmentse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Sewage sludge alone or with bark or ash amendments dramatically improved pine seedling growth and grass biomass in comparison with other soil treatments”
e1“Loblolly pine seedlings”
Title
Significance of various soil amendments to borrow pit reclamation with loblolly pine and fescue.
Charles R. Berry; D. H. Marx 1980
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Pisolithus tinctorius formed abundant ectomycorrhizae on Thelephora-associated pine seedlings.
- Intervention effect Sewage sludge increased fescue grass biomass relative to other soil treatments.
- Intervention effect Pine seedling volume was 28 times greater on sludge plots.
- Intervention effect Grass biomass was five times greater on sludge plots.
- Intervention effect Sludge-amended soil had more N, P and organic matter and higher cation exchange capacity.
- Intervention effect Pine foliage had more N under sludge amendment.
- Intervention effect Pine foliage had less Ca under sludge amendment.