Claim · model-written summary
Potassium in forest soils was two to three times higher than under cushion plants or tussock grasses.
- Taxon
- foreste0
- Outcome
- K showed greater solute concentrationse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 2 to 3 timese0
- Comparator
- cushion-forming plants or tussock grassese0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingQualifier
Verbatim
e0“In contrast K showed greater solute concentrations under forest soils with values that were 2 to 3 times higher than under cushion-forming plants or tussock grasses.”
Title
Armando Molina; Veerle Vanacker; Oliver Chadwick; et al. Biogeosciences 2024. doi:10.5194/bg-21-3075-2024
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Association Rooting depth varied with drainage and soil moisture in nonallophanic Andosols.
- Association Roots were shallower in seasonally waterlogged soils under cushion plants.
- Association Roots were deeper, exceeding 100 cm, in well-drained soils under forest and tussock grasses.
- Association Vegetation composition indicated rock-derived nutrient availability in soil solutions.
- Association Plant-available solute nutrient patterns differed from total and exchangeable rock-derived nutrient pools.
- Association Soils beneath cushion plants had about threefold higher calcium, magnesium and sodium solute concentrations than soils beneath forest and tussock grasses.
- Association Dissolved silicon under cushion plants was 16 times higher than under forest.
- Association Dissolved silicon under cushion plants was six times higher than under tussock grasses.
- Observation Phosphorus was limiting, with solution concentrations below 1 µM across three vegetation types.