Claim · model-written summary
Absolute woodrose growth rate increased linearly with size and was greatest in the first six months.
- Taxon
- Erianthemum dregei
Erianthemum dregeit0 - Organ / stage
- woodrosee0
- Interactor
- Sclerocarya birrea
Sclerocarya birreat0host - Outcome
- Absolute growth ratee0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Absolute growth rate increased linearly with woodrose size, with most growth occurring during the first 6 months (August–February) relative to the second (February–August)”
t0“Erianthemum dregei (Loranthaceae) on Sclerocarya birrea”
Title
C.M. Dzerefos; E.T.F. Witkowski; C.M. Shackleton South African Journal of Botany 1998. doi:10.1016/s0254-6299(15)30906-6
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation E. dregei germination reached 25% after five days.
- Observation No E. dregei seedlings survived a month in the field.
- Observation One year after 78 living E. dregei were removed, 68 new plants appeared, probably by resprouting.
- Mechanism New recruits on branches of the stated sizes may reflect resprouting rather than seed recruitment.
- Association Relative growth rates declined with woodrose size.
- Observation A 10 cm woodrose was estimated to be 40 ± 25 years old.
- Observation A 25 cm woodrose was estimated to be 56 ± 35 years old.
- Recommendation Slow woodrose growth should inform sustainable harvest limits.