Claim · model-written summary
Winter moose browsing increased birch height growth.
- Taxon
- bircht0
- Treatment
- Winter browsing by moosee0
- Interactor
- moosee0herbivore
- Outcome
- height growthe0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Winter browsing by moose reduced diameter growth, leaf biomass of short shoots but increased height growth”
t0“Birch”
Title
Michael den Herder; Roger Bergström; Pekka Niemelä; et al. Annales Zoologici Fennici 2009. doi:10.5735/086.046.0107
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Summer browsing delayed birch budburst.
- Intervention effect Summer browsing reduced birch height and diameter growth.
- Intervention effect Summer browsing reduced invertebrate defoliation of birch.
- Intervention effect Winter moose browsing reduced birch diameter growth and short shoot leaf biomass.
- Intervention effect Winter moose browsing increased aphid abundance and insect defoliation.
- Observation Combined winter browsing and artificial stripping produced stronger effects on budburst, shoot leaf biomass and aphid abundance.
- Observation The timing of artificial leaf stripping mattered for nearly all tested variables.