Claim · model-written summary
Fertigated trees had about 14% greater evapotranspiration than nonfertigated trees.
- Taxon
- Orange Treest0
- Treatment
- fertigatede0
- Outcome
- evapotranspiration (ET)e0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Value
- 14%e0
- Comparator
- nonfertigated treese0
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Verbatim
e0“The fertigated trees averaged about 14% greater evapotranspiration (ET) during the period of study as compared to the nonfertigated trees”
t0“Orange Trees”
Title
Growth, Evapotranspiration, and Nitrogen Leaching from Young Lysimeter-Grown Orange Trees
Brian J. Boman; Anwar M. Battikhi Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering 2007. doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9437(2007)133:4(350)
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Controlled-release fertilizer produced equivalent tree growth to traditional fertilizer and weekly fertigation.
- Observation Average ET increased as trees grew, from 2.8 and 2.3mmday−1 in 1991/1992 to 5.0 and 4.4mmday−1 in 1993/1994 for fertigated and nonfertigated trees.
- Observation The applied N fraction leached ranged from 35% under WF to 53% under TF.
- Intervention effect Total N leached with WF trees was approximately twice that with CR treatments.
- Intervention effect TF applications leached approximately two and one-half times more N than CR materials.
- Observation More than 65% of total N leached during rainy summer months.
- Association N leaching was directly related to rainfall rate.