Claim · model-written summary
Sludge began stimulating crown-class differentiation.
- Taxon
- Loblolly Pine
Pinus taedat0 - Treatment
- Sludge fertilizatione0
- Outcome
- crown class differentiatione0
- Direction
- stimulatee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Sludge fertilization significantly increased average height, diameter, and stemvolume of the largest 300 trees/ac and has begun to stimulate crown class differentiation”
t0“Loblolly Pine”
Title
Douglas M. Stone; Harry R. Powers Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 1989. doi:10.1093/sjaf/13.2.68
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Rust-resistant seedlings had higher first-year survival.
- Observation Rust-resistant seedlings had lower rust infection at age six.
- Intervention effect Sludge increased six-year diameter and volume growth.
- Intervention effect Sludge decreased rust infection significantly.
- Observation The two sludge rates did not differ in reported outcomes.
- Intervention effect Sludge increased height, diameter, and stem volume of the largest trees.
- Association Greater growth of larger trees did not change the rust-infected proportion.