Claim · model-written summary
Single ripped plots had more total ecosystem N than their controls.
- Taxon
- Mixed-Grass Prairiet0
- Treatment
- singlee0
- Outcome
- total ecosystem Ne0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- respective controlse0
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Verbatim
e0“Both the single and double ripped plots also showed significantly higher quantities of total ecosystem N than their respective controls”
t0“Mixed-Grass Prairie”
Title
Long-Term Effects of Mechanical Renovation of a Mixed-Grass Prairie: II. Carbon and Nitrogen Balance
D. L. MIYAMOTO; G. E. SCHUMAN; R. A. OLSON Arid Land Research and Management 2004. doi:10.1080/15324980490280807
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Mechanical renovation increased prairie forage production.
- Intervention effect Mechanical renovation increased livestock carrying capacities.
- Intervention effect Single ripping increased soil profile N mass over the untreated control after 21 years.
- Intervention effect Double ripping increased soil profile N mass over the untreated control after 21 years.
- Intervention effect Double ripped plots had more total ecosystem N than their controls.
- Intervention effect Single ripping had no significant effect on soil or ecosystem organic C mass or distribution.
- Intervention effect Double ripping had no significant effect on soil or ecosystem organic C mass or distribution.
- Mechanism The authors propose enhanced decomposition and oxidation of soil organic C during initial tillage as an explanation for the absent C response.