Claim · model-written summary
Total biomass production of black locust was unaffected by the low levels of herbivory.
- Taxon
- black locust
Robinia pseudoacaciae0 - Treatment
- low levels of herbivorye1
- Interactor
- canopy arthropodse0herbivore
- Outcome
- Total biomass productione1
- Direction
- unaffectede1
- Setting
- Southern Appalachianst0
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Verbatim
e0“consumption by canopy arthropods on foliage nutrient content, canopy leachates (throughfall), and biomass of 4—yr—old black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) and red maple (Acer rubrum)”
e1“Total biomass production (net primary production per kilogram of preseason biomass) was unaffected by the low levels of herbivory observed here”
t0“in the Southern Appalachians”
Title
T. R. Seastedt; D. A. Crossley; W. W. Hargrove Ecology 1983. doi:10.2307/1937812
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Early in summer, phosphorus was significantly lower in untreated black locust foliage than in insecticide-treated foliage.
- Intervention effect By late summer, phosphorus in untreated black locust foliage equalled that of insecticide-treated foliage.
- Association Potassium concentrations in untreated red maple foliage were significantly reduced in late summer.
- Association Calcium concentrations in untreated red maple foliage were significantly higher later in summer.
- Intervention effect Throughfall potassium in unprotected black locust trees was higher, 9.8 kg/ha, than in insecticide-protected trees, 5.7 kg/ha.
- Association Untreated black locust lost 0.3 kg/ha of sulfate-S.
- Association Insecticide-treated black locust trees adsorbed 0.4 kg/ha of sulfate-S.
- Intervention effect Nominal herbivory did not stimulate biomass and nutrient accretion in these tree species.
- Association Herbivory may increase the cycling of K and perhaps other elements in these tree systems.