Claim · model-written summary
Plant health showed no clear trend after road paving removed the dust source.
- Taxon
- plantt0
- Treatment
- paving the roade0
- Outcome
- no clear trendse0
- Direction
- no clear trendse0
- Comparator
- beforee0
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Verbatim
e0“This is further supported by comparing the same site before and after paving the road (removal of dust source), which showed no clear trends.”
t0“plant health”
Title
Impacts of dust on plant health, survivorship and plant communities in semi‐arid environments
Mamoru Matsuki; Mark R. Gardener; Andrew Smith; et al. Austral Ecology 2016. doi:10.1111/aec.12328
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Dust accumulation decreased rapidly with distance from its source.
- Association At Windarling Range, the highest dust load had no significant impact on Tetratheca paynterae paynterae over 10 years compared with less dusty sites.
- Association Distance from dust source was not significantly related to floristic composition on Barrow Island over 5 years.
- Association The probability of plants declining in health was not apparently related to dust load.
- Association Plant health trends were likely more influenced by preceding five-month rainfall than dust load.
- Association Temporal variation in mean dust load may be related to rainfall variation.