Claim · model-written summary
Supplemental UV-B significantly reduced seedling height in Pinus contorta.
- Taxon
- Pinus contorta
Pinus contortae0 - Treatment
- supplemental UV-Be0
- Outcome
- Seedling heighte0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Seedling height was significantly reduced by supplemental UV-B in Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine), Pinus resinosa (red pine), and Pinus taeda (loblolly pine).”
Title
Effects of Ultraviolet-B Irradiation on Seedling Growth in the Pinaceae
Joe H. Sullivan; Alan H. Teramura American Journal of Botany 1988. doi:10.2307/2443888
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Needle discoloration and stunting occurred in three species.
- Intervention effect Supplemental UV-B significantly reduced seedling height in Pinus resinosa.
- Intervention effect Supplemental UV-B significantly reduced seedling height in Pinus taeda.
- Intervention effect Biomass increased in Picea engelmannii.
- Intervention effect Abies fraseri was unaffected by UV-B.
- Intervention effect Pinus edulus was unaffected by UV-B.
- Intervention effect Pinus nigra was unaffected by UV-B.
- Intervention effect Biomass fell by more than 5% in all other tested species.
- Association Species native to higher elevations generally had smaller supplemental UV-B effects.