Claim · model-written summary
Undamaged leaves remaining after defoliation and regrowth leaves had higher specific leaf area than comparable leaves on control plants.
- Taxon
- Solidago altissima
Solidago altissimae0 - Organ / stage
- regrowth leavese1
- Treatment
- defoliatione1
- Outcome
- specific leaf areae1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- control plantse1
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Verbatim
e0“Leaf area was removed from Solidago altissima”
e1“Undamaged leaves remaining after defoliation and regrowth leaves on damaged plants had higher specific leaf area (leaf area/leaf mass) than comparable leaves on control plants”
Title
Pattern of defoliation and its effect on photosynthesis and growth of Goldenrod
G. A. Meyer Functional Ecology 1998. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00193.x
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Area-based photosynthetic rates of leaves remaining after defoliation were not affected by dispersed or concentrated damage.
- Intervention effect Damage of both types enhanced area-based photosynthesis of regrowth leaves at 16 days after defoliation.
- Intervention effect Damage of both types enhanced area-based photosynthesis of regrowth leaves at 26 days after defoliation, to a lesser extent than at 16 days.
- Intervention effect Dispersed damage, but not concentrated damage, stimulated photosynthesis of undamaged leaves remaining after defoliation.
- Mechanism Defoliation elevated mass-based photosynthesis more strongly than area-based photosynthesis, because of the increase in specific leaf area.
- Intervention effect Plants with dispersed damage had higher relative growth rates in the first week after defoliation than plants with concentrated damage.
- Association Plants with dispersed damage recovered more quickly from defoliation.
- Intervention effect Both types of defoliation caused similar reductions in flower production.
- Intervention effect Dispersed damage is generally less detrimental to plants than concentrated damage.