Claim · model-written summary
Tall herbs were shorter and had lower specific leaf area where reindeer were present.
- Taxon
- Tall herbse0
- Interactor
- reindeer
Rangifer taranduse0herbivore - Outcome
- SLAe0
- Direction
- lowere0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tall herbs were lower and had lower SLA when reindeer were present”
Title
Effects of herbivory on arctic and alpine vegetation
Åsa Lindgren KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) 2007
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Reindeer grazing in southern Lapland had limited effects on plant community composition and seedling germination.
- Association Small herbs showed the opposite trait pattern where reindeer were present.
- Observation Rodents had the largest relative effect on plant community composition in southern Lapland.
- Observation On predator-free islands in Finnmark, rodents heavily affected dwarf shrubs.
- Observation With predators absent, voles increased profoundly and nearly depleted some dwarf shrub species.
- Intervention effect Defoliation reduced a sedge’s nutritional quality.
- Association In Beringia, large herbivores were related to plant species richness.
- Association In Beringia, small herbivores were related to plant abundance.
- Association Plant functional traits were related only to large herbivores and vascular plant standing crop.