Claim · model-written summary
Height to first damaging attack varied significantly in both species.
- Taxon
- Cedrela odorata
Cedrela odoratat0 - Outcome
- height to first damaging attacke0
- Direction
- Significant variatione0
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Verbatim
e0“Significant variation in height to first damaging attack was observed in both species”
t0“Spanish cedar Cedrela odorata and American mahogany Swietenia macrophylla”
Title
A.C. Newton; J.P. Cornelius; J.F. Mesén; et al. Bulletin of Entomological Research 1998. doi:10.1017/s0007485300025931
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Observation Cedrela height growth was about twice Swietenia height growth, with means of 2.0 and 1.3 cm per week.
- Observation Cedrela leaf phenology varied over time and at minimum 51% of trees retained leaves in a dry period.
- Observation The minimum proportion of foliated Swietenia trees was 87%.
- Observation No Swietenia shoot borer attacks occurred before week 50.
- Observation Initial Cedrela attacks occurred in week 6.
- Observation By week 84, 74% of Cedrela trees had been attacked.
- Observation By week 84, 77% of Swietenia trees had been attacked.
- Association Attack peaks in both tree species coincided with new shoot production.
- Observation Both tree species showed pronounced spatial variation in attack.
- Association Cedrela attacks per block were negatively correlated with available calcium at week 12.
- Association Cedrela height growth was positively correlated with available phosphate.
- Observation Only 6% of Cedrela remained undamaged to 3 m by the end of observations.
- Observation Only 0.4% of Swietenia remained undamaged to 3 m by the end of observations.
- Recommendation Shoot borer control should account for seasonal attack and host phenology.
- Recommendation Manipulating soil nutrient status may form part of integrated shoot borer management.