Claim · model-written summary
Facilitation occurred more frequently in the more water-stressed rocky habitat than in the gravel habitat.
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e0“facilitation occurred more frequently in a more water-stressed rocky habitat than less water-stressed gravel habitat”
t0“Spatial pattern and association of shrub species in gravel hilly and rocky low mountain desert dominated by relict Helianthemum songaricum in China”
Title
Pu-Jin Zhang; Hua Qing; Li-Qing Zhao; et al. Global Ecology and Conservation 2021. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01914
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Association Competition occurred more frequently in the less water-stressed gravel habitat than in the rocky habitat.
- Observation The H. songaricum population and size classes were randomly or regularly distributed at most spatial scales in gravel habitat.
- Observation H. songaricum tended toward a clumped distribution in rocky habitat.
- Mechanism Fewer H. songaricum juveniles and competition affecting them indicated limited population regeneration.
