Claim · model-written summary
At Rioverde, associated and unassociated cacti had similar size.
- Taxon
- Astrophytum myriostigma
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Astrophytum myriostigmae1 - Interactor
- nurse plantse2other
- Outcome
- sizee0
- Direction
- similare0
- Comparator
- nonassociated cactie0
- Setting
- Rioverdee0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“the size of associated and nonassociated cacti at Rioverde was similar”
e1“Astrophytum myriostigma had an aggregated distribution pattern”
e2“nurse plants at Rioverde”
Title
Donají López-Flores; J. Alejandro Zavala-Hurtado; Jordan Golubov; et al. The Southwestern Naturalist 2018. doi:10.1894/0038-4909-63-3-186
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Astrophytum myriostigma had an aggregated distribution.
- Association About 50% of cacti at Rioverde were associated with nurse plants.
- Association About 63% of cacti at Pozas were associated with nurse plants.
- Association Hechtia glomerata was the main nurse species in both populations.
- Association At Pozas, cacti associated with nurse plants were larger than unassociated cacti.
- Association At Pozas, associated cacti had no significant orientation relative to nurse crowns.
- Association At Rioverde, cacti established more frequently on the north side of nurse plants.
- Observation The authors interpreted the nurse association as facultative.