Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation decreased the number of ground vegetation individuals.
- Taxon
- ground vegetatione0
- Treatment
- irrigatione0
- Outcome
- number of individuals of the ground vegetatione0
- Direction
- decreasinge0
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Verbatim
e0“The irrigation is decreasing the biomass, the diversity, and the number of individuals of the ground vegetation.”
Title
The Response of a Southern Appalachian Forest to Waste Water Irrigation
G. H. Brister; R. C. Schultz Journal of Environmental Quality 1981. doi:10.2134/jeq1981.00472425001000020005x
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Vegetation took up some wastewater nutrients.
- Observation No stand component showed systematic nutrient uptake.
- Intervention effect Overstory trees showed no height growth response to irrigation.
- Intervention effect Overstory trees showed no breast-height diameter response to irrigation.
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased overstory stem diameter growth within the canopy.
- Intervention effect Irrigation significantly increased understory tree diameter at 0.3 m.
- Intervention effect Irrigation significantly increased understory tree height.
- Intervention effect Irrigation significantly increased upper stem diameter growth in white pine.
- Intervention effect Irrigation decreased ground vegetation biomass.
- Intervention effect Irrigation decreased ground vegetation diversity.