Claim · model-written summary
Schizachyrium had low flooding tolerance and is excluded from wet prairies.
- Taxon
- Schizachyrium
Schizachyriume0 - Outcome
- low flooding tolerancee0
- Setting
- wet prairiese0
Verbatim
e0“Schizachyrium is excluded from wet prairies by low flooding tolerance, demonstrated by all experiments.”
Title
Robert W. Wernerehl; Thomas J. Givnish American Journal of Botany 2025. doi:10.1002/ajb2.16457
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Bouteloua succumbed promptly to inundation.
- Mechanism Competition likely excludes Bouteloua from productive mesic sites.
- Observation Sorghastrum showed low flooding tolerance in greenhouse and natural experiments.
- Observation Spartina grew most under the wettest mesocosm conditions.
- Observation Spartina quadrat presence rose 57% two years after flooding.
- Observation Upland grass quadrat presence fell 44% after flooding.
- Observation Andropogon had high flooding tolerance.
- Observation Andropogon drought tolerance did not differ significantly from other species.
- Observation Andropogon was tall.
