Claim · model-written summary
Higher D. spicata density strongly affected vegetative growth.
- Taxon
- blueberryt0
- Interactor
- D. spicata
Danthonia spicatae0weed - Outcome
- vegetative growthe0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“increase in D. spicata density from 0-1 to >25 plants m-2 reduced fruit production by three-fold and strongly impacted vegetative growth”
t0“blueberry fruit yield”
Title
Charles Marty; Josée-Anne Lévesque; Robert L. Bradley; et al. PLoS ONE 2019. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0226619
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect CRW did not significantly increase blueberry fruit yield or growth.
- Intervention effect Inorganic nitrogen fertilization increased fruit yield by 70%.
- Association Blueberry fruit yield averaged twice as high in the D. spicata area as in the C. peregrina area.
- Association Rising D. spicata density reduced blueberry fruit production three-fold.
- Association Increasing C. peregrina density had a lower effect than D. spicata density.
- Association Vegetative growth was higher in the C. peregrina area.
- Association Foliar nitrogen was significantly higher in the C. peregrina area.
- Association Foliar nitrogen and fruit yield were negatively correlated in the C. peregrina area.
- Intervention effect Fertilization did not affect foliar nitrogen concentrations.
- Intervention effect Fertilization did not affect litter decomposition rates.
- Association Higher D. spicata density lowered fertilizer efficiency, especially above 25 plants m-2.
- Observation CRW might have a long-term beneficial effect.