Claim · model-written summary
Native species increased N-use efficiency by altering N-uptake patterns in the presence of invasive plants.
- Taxon
- Native speciese1
- Treatment
- presence of invasive plantse1
- Interactor
- invasive plantse1other
- Outcome
- N-use efficiencye1
- Direction
- increasede1
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Verbatim
e1“Native species reduced their N-uptake rates but increased N-use efficiency through altering N-uptake patterns in the presence of invasive plants”
Title
Plasticity of Plant N Uptake in Two Native Species in Response to Invasive Species
Yi-Heng Hu; Yu-Lu Zhou; Jun-Qin Gao; et al. Forests 2019. doi:10.3390/f10121075
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Association The form of N, rather than species identity, was the main factor affecting N uptake by the four species.
- Observation In all four species the most N was taken up as NH4+, followed by NO3− and glycine.
- Observation The two invasive species grew faster than the native species.
- Observation The two invasive species had stable N-uptake patterns.
- Observation The two invasive species had more moderate N uptake rates than the native species.
- Intervention effect The presence of invasive species reduced the N-uptake rates of the native species.
- Intervention effect The presence of invasive species altered the N-uptake patterns of the native species.
- Intervention effect The presence of invasive species did not substantially alter the growth rates of the native species.
- Mechanism The authors suggest that a flexible N-uptake pattern could be an important survival strategy for native plants competing with invaders.