Claim · model-written summary
Seedling growth rate was negatively correlated with initial seedling size.
- Taxon
- Olea europaea
Olea europaeae0 - Treatment
- initial seedling sizee2
- Outcome
- seedling growth ratee2
- Direction
- negatively correlatede2
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Verbatim
e0“seedling establishment in Olea europaea”
e2“seedling growth rate was negatively correlated with initial seedling size”
Title
Seedling establishment inOlea europaea: Seed size and microhabitat affect growth and survival
Pedro J. Rey; Julio M. Alcántara; Francisco Sánchez-Lafuente; et al. Ecoscience 2004. doi:10.1080/11956860.2004.11682838
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Association Seed size was related to seedling size in Olea europaea.
- Association Seed size was related to differential growth rate in Olea europaea seedlings.
- Association Seedling survival differed between microhabitats.
- Association Seedling survival was positively affected by initial seedling size until the end of the summer drought.
- Mechanism The effect of seedling size on survival was partly mediated by its negative relationship with growth rate.
- Association The combined effect of size and growth on seedling survival varied between microhabitats.
- Mechanism Establishment of Olea europaea depended on microhabitats through facilitation and inhibition processes.
- Association Seed size-related growth rate strongly affected seedling fate.