Claim · model-written summary
Black wattle had better growth and biomass than fever tree associations.
- Taxon
- black wattlee0
- Outcome
- tree growth and biomass productione0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- the fever treee0
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Verbatim
e0“tree growth and biomass production were better in black wattle alleycropping than in association with the fever tree”
Title
Black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) and the fever tree (Acacia xanthophloea) in alleycropping systems.
Luis Jeremias. Nhamucho ResearchSpace (University of KwaZulu-Natal) 2006
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Observation Black wattle mean ground-level diameter after 12 months was 48 mm.
- Observation Black wattle mean breast-height diameter after 12 months was 36 mm.
- Observation Black wattle total height over the same period was about 406 cm.
- Observation Black wattle fresh pruning foliage with maize and cowpea was about 5.6 t/ha.
- Observation Black wattle fresh pruning foliage with pumpkin was 4.5 t/ha.
- Observation Alleygrazing prunings yielded about 7.66 t/ha fresh foliage.
- Observation Black wattle dry foliage biomass with maize and cowpeas was 1.96 t/ha.
- Observation Black wattle dry foliage biomass with pumpkin was 1.58 t/ha.
- Observation Black wattle dry foliage biomass with E. curvula was 2.68 t/ha.
- Observation Dry matter was 35% of fresh foliage biomass.
- Observation Dry matter was 60% of fresh woody biomass.
- Observation Fever tree growth was not significant during the study.
- Observation P. maximum germinated unevenly across seed lots.
- Observation Pumpkin and cowpea biomass had good NDF and ADF values.
- Observation E. curvula and maize stover had fair NDF and ADF values.
- Observation Black wattle foliage had poor NDF and ADF values.
- Recommendation Black wattle fodder should be mixed with digestible fodder to increase intake and avoid tannin hazard.
- Method / resource Regression equations linked tree ground diameter with age and foliage biomass with breast-height diameter.