Claim · model-written summary
Changes in leaf area and foliage distribution increased daily net biomass production by 47% in 50% pruned trees.
- Taxon
- Eucalyptus nitens
Eucalyptus nitenst0 - Treatment
- 50%-pruned treese0
- Outcome
- G(d)e0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 47%e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Changes in leaf area/foliage distribution had a greater effect on G(d) of 50%-pruned trees (47% increase) than did changes in A”
t0“Eucalyptus nitens”
Title
E. A. Pinkard; M. Battaglia; C. L. Beadle; et al. Tree Physiology 1999. doi:10.1093/treephys/19.1.1
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Green pruning increases light-saturated CO2 assimilation.
- Observation Green pruning changes total leaf area and foliage distribution.
- Intervention effect The 50% pruning treatment reduced daily net biomass production by 20% immediately.
- Observation High light interception occurred at leaf area index 4.0.
- Intervention effect The 50% pruning treatment reduced leaf area index to 3.5.
- Observation Physiological responses compensated fully for lost intercepted radiation within 110 days after 50% pruning.
- Intervention effect The 70% pruning treatment reduced leaf area index to 1.9.
- Intervention effect The 70% pruning treatment reduced daily net biomass production by 77%.
- Intervention effect After 70% pruning, physiological responses did not restore daily net biomass production to unpruned levels.
- Association Increased assimilation after pruning raised modeled daily net biomass production by 20% in 50% pruned trees.
- Association Increased assimilation after pruning raised modeled daily net biomass production by 25% in 70% pruned trees.
- Mechanism Reduced photosynthetic potential following 70% pruning caused only small changes in leaf area and foliage distribution, with little effect on daily net biomass production.