Claim · model-written summary
Successful sprouting and total forest recovery were confined to a few areas with abundant early sprouting.
- Taxon
- mountain birch
Betula pubescens var. pumilat0 - Outcome
- sprouting has been successfule0
- Qualifier
- only in a few areas where sprouting was abundant soon after the Epirrita damagee0
EpirritaVerbatim
e0“sprouting has been successful and the forest will totally recover only in a few areas where sprouting was abundant soon after the Epirrita damage”
t0“mountain birch”
Title
Juhani Lehtonen; Risto K. Heikkinen Ecoscience 1995. doi:10.1080/11956860.1995.11682303
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Seed-based recovery of damaged birch forests was considered possible almost everywhere in the study area.
- Mechanism Undergrowth changes after damage may support birch seedling development.
- Association Reindeer grazing adversely affected birch seedling establishment.
- Association Reindeer grazing affected basal sprout formation less strongly than seedling establishment.
- Mechanism Rot spreading from dead mother trees disturbed birch sprout formation.
- Observation Recovery was limited in most damaged birch areas.
- Observation Birch tree density was expected to decrease greatly in most damaged areas.