Claim · model-written summary
Rubus cover decreased by more than 40% in the 5 years without added nitrogen.
- Outcome
- Rubus covere4
- Direction
- decreasede4
- Value
- > 40%e4
- Qualifier
- in the 5 years of no added Ne4
- Setting
- Fernow Experimental Foreste6
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Verbatim
e4“Much of this was driven by changes in Rubus cover, which decreased by > 40% in the 5 years of no added N”
e6“Fernow Experimental Forest (FEF; Tucker County, West Virginia)”
Title
Frank S. Gilliam; Zachariah K. Fowler; William T. Peterjohn Global Change Biology Communications 2026. doi:10.1002/gcb4.70013
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation After 5 years of recovery, herbaceous layer cover and biomass decreased by about 30%.
- Observation Species diversity (H′) of the herbaceous layer increased significantly during recovery.
- Observation Species richness of the herbaceous layer increased during recovery.
- Observation Species evenness (J) of the herbaceous layer did not change with decreased nitrogen.
- Observation Results did not support a significant time lag in the herbaceous layer response to decreased nitrogen inputs.