Claim · model-written summary
Spruce seedlings in moss cushions were thinner and taller than on bare soil.
- Taxon
- P. crassifolia
Picea crassifoliae0 - Interactor
- A. abietina
Abietinella abietinae1other - Outcome
- seedlings were thinner and tallere0
- Direction
- thinner and tallere0
- Comparator
- bare soile0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“P. crassifolia seedlings were thinner and taller, but their number higher in moss cushion than in bare soil”
e1“moss substrates (A. abietina)”
Title
Qingtao Wang; Chuanyan Zhao; Yunfei Gao; et al. Polish Journal of Ecology 2016. doi:10.3161/15052249pje2016.64.3.006
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Moss extract reduced fungal infection risk and improved spruce germination.
- Intervention effect Low moss extract concentrations stimulated spruce germination.
- Intervention effect High moss extract concentration inhibited spruce germination.
- Intervention effect Thick moss substrate facilitated spruce emergence in dry and intermediate moisture.
- Intervention effect Thin moss substrate facilitated spruce emergence in dry and intermediate moisture.
- Intervention effect Moss substrate inhibited spruce emergence in moist conditions.
- Observation Bare soil spruce emergence was highest at 60% in moist conditions.
- Observation Bare soil spruce emergence was lowest at 35% in dry conditions.
- Observation Spruce seedling number was higher in moss cushions than bare soil.