Claim · model-written summary
Heavy grazing shifted the grassland community from Festuca dominant to Stipa dominant.
- Treatment
- Heavy grazinge0
- Outcome
- communitye0
- Direction
- transformede0
- Comparator
- Festuca, Agropyron, Stipae0
Agropyron
Festuca
StipaNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Heavy grazing in loam soil transformed a Festuca, Agropyron, Stipa community to a Stipa, Agropyron, Festuca community”
Title
Harvey Edward Martens University Library - University of Saskatchewan (University of Saskatchewan) 1979
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Ungrazed sand, loam and clay sites differed in canopy, mulch, underground plant matter and soil organic matter.
- Intervention effect Heavy grazing reduced canopy organic weight from 258 to 82 g/m².
- Observation Grazing reduced mulch from 299 to 186 g/m².
- Observation Grazing reduced soil organic matter in the upper 15 cm by 16.7%.
- Intervention effect Underground plant matter was unaffected by grazing.
- Intervention effect Cultivation reduced soil organic matter weight by 26 percent.