Claim · model-written summary
Peak RIV values occurred in dry seasons.
- Taxon
- Petiveria alliacea
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Petiveria alliaceat0 - Outcome
- RIV valuese0
- Direction
- Peake0
- Qualifier
- dry seasonse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Peak RIV values occurred in dry seasons, whereas the lowest values were recorded during wet seasons.”
t0“Petiveria alliacea L.”
Title
Sheriff Adetola ADENIJI; Rasheed Olufemi AWODOYIN; Oluseun Sunday OLUBODE; et al. Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology 2026. doi:10.9734/ajee/2026/v25i2879
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Species richness was higher in BG than TRF, with 52 species and 28 families in BG.
- Observation Species richness was higher in DB than TRF, with 51 species and 28 families in DB.
- Observation TRF had 41 species and 21 families, fewer than BG and DB.
- Observation Species richness was greater during wet seasons at all sites.
- Observation Petiveria alliacea had the highest RIV across seasons and years in TRF and BG.
- Observation Petiveria alliacea had the highest RIV during dry seasons in DB.
- Observation The lowest RIV values were recorded during wet seasons.
- Observation Species composition similarity was highest between wet seasons within the same sites.
- Observation Species composition similarity was lowest between dry and wet seasons across sites.
- Observation The authors describe Petiveria alliacea as dominant and fast spreading, with marked spatial and temporal variation.
- Observation The authors conclude that Petiveria alliacea poses no serious short-term threat to landscape heterogeneity.