Claim · model-written summary
Tree of heaven reduced soil organic carbon to 1.21% d.w.
- Taxon
- Tree of heaven
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Ailanthus altissimuse0 - Outcome
- organic carbone0
- Direction
- reducinge0
- Value
- 1.21% d.w.e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Tree of heaven increased soil pH (6.95), bacterial biomass (42.94 ng g−1) and Collembola density (2038 organisms m2) while reducing water content (10.6% d.w.) and organic carbon (1.21% d.w.)”
Title
Invasive Plants Do Not Exert Univocal Responses on Soil Abiotic and Biotic Characteristics
Monica Zizolfi; Giulia Maisto; Giorgia Santini; et al. Forests 2025. doi:10.3390/f16020209
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Tree of heaven increased soil pH to 6.95.
- Observation Tree of heaven increased bacterial biomass to 42.94 ng g−1.
- Observation Tree of heaven increased Collembola density to 2038 organisms m2.
- Observation Tree of heaven reduced soil water content to 10.6% d.w.
- Observation Black locust increased soil nitrogen content to 0.70% d.w.
- Observation Black locust reduced microbial biomass to 22.85 ng g−1.
- Observation Black locust reduced Collembola density to 873 organisms m2.
- Observation Tree of heaven soils had a higher hemi-edaphic Collembola proportion of 48.3% than black locust soils.
- Observation Eu-edaphic forms dominated black locust soils at 42.2%.
- Observation Collembola composition under invasive plants was poorly diversified, with two species dominating.