Claim · model-written summary
Mortality among older cankered trees occurred mostly in dominated trees.
- Taxon
- jack pine
Pinus banksianat0 - Outcome
- mortality of these was confined mostly to dominated treese0
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Verbatim
e0“Older trees seem to tolerate the presence of cankers, and mortality of these was confined mostly to dominated trees”
t0“jack pine”
Title
Reduced growth, cull, and mortality of jack pine associated with sweetfern rust cankers
Henry L. Gross; Robert F. Patton; Alan R. Ek Canadian Journal of Forest Research 1978. doi:10.1139/x78-009
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Association Rust cankers were associated with reduced jack pine height, diameter, and volume growth.
- Association Cankered pines had lower cubic volume than unaffected pines.
- Association Cankered pines had lower board volume than unaffected pines.
- Association Average size of cankered pines was inversely related to the percentage of severely cankered trees.
- Association Cankers reduced merchantable volume by about 11%.
- Association Cankered pines were more likely to become dominated and die than unaffected pines.