Claim · model-written summary
Dispersed damage is generally less detrimental to plants than concentrated damage.
- Taxon
- plantsViridiplantaee0
- Treatment
- dispersed damagee0
- Outcome
- detrimentale0
- Direction
- lesse0
- Comparator
- concentrated damagee0
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e0“dispersed damage is generally less detrimental to plants than concentrated damage”
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.
- Intervention effect Undamaged leaves remaining after defoliation and regrowth leaves had higher specific leaf area than comparable leaves on control plants.
- 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.