Claim · model-written summary
Under a native canopy, absence of invasive saplings significantly increased native sapling growth.
- Taxon
- native saplingse0
- Treatment
- absence of invasive saplingse0
- Outcome
- growth of native saplingse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“beneath a native canopy, the absence of invasive saplings significantly increased growth of native saplings”
Title
InvasiveAcer platanoidesinhibits native sapling growth in forest understorey communities
Shannon L. Galbraith‐Kent; Steven N. Handel Journal of Ecology 2008. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01337.x
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Sapling survival was 90% over the experiment.
- Intervention effect Native species grew significantly less when competing with A. platanoides than in purely native stands.
- Intervention effect A. rubrum mean height was 110 cm with the highest A. platanoides proportion versus 149 cm in communities without invasive trees.
- Observation A. platanoides grew similarly across its two proportions and both canopy types.
- Intervention effect Native saplings were 28% shorter beneath an invasive canopy than beneath a native canopy.
- Observation Under an invasive canopy, invasive saplings had no additional impact on native growth.
- Recommendation The authors support episodic removal of invasive saplings every 2–3 years.