Claim · model-written summary
Greater P availability reduced the root-to-shoot ratio in both grasses.
- Taxon
- Spartina alterniflora
Sporobolus alterniflorust0 - Treatment
- Greater P availabilitye0
- Outcome
- root‐to‐shoot ratioe0
- Direction
- reductione0
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Verbatim
e0“Greater P availability increased the mycorrhizal status of S. cynosuroides and improved P nutrition of both plant species, despite a reduction in the root‐to‐shoot ratio”
t0“Spartina alterniflora”
Title
J. Murray McHugh; John Dighton Restoration Ecology 2004. doi:10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.03109.x
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Observation S. alterniflora developed only fungal hyphae and no arbuscules after 2.5 months.
- Observation S. cynosuroides became moderately colonized.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal inoculation marginally improved growth and P and N content of S. alterniflora at low P.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal inoculation marginally improved growth and P and N content of S. cynosuroides at low P.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal inoculation significantly increased tillering in S. alterniflora.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal inoculation significantly increased tillering in S. cynosuroides.
- Intervention effect Greater P availability increased mycorrhizal status in S. cynosuroides.
- Intervention effect Greater P availability improved P nutrition in S. alterniflora.
- Intervention effect Greater P availability improved P nutrition in S. cynosuroides.
- Intervention effect Increasing salinity reduced mycorrhizal colonization of S. alterniflora.
- Intervention effect Increasing salinity did not reduce mycorrhizal colonization of S. cynosuroides.
- Intervention effect Higher salinity improved growth and nutrient content of S. alterniflora.
- Intervention effect Higher salinity increased nutrient content only in S. cynosuroides.
- Intervention effect Longer inundation decreased growth in S. alterniflora.
- Intervention effect Longer inundation decreased growth in S. cynosuroides.
- Intervention effect Tissue P and N concentrations were highest under the longest inundation in S. alterniflora.
- Intervention effect Tissue P and N concentrations were highest under the longest inundation in S. cynosuroides.