Abstract
The weed seed bank under seven fallow tree species was analysed in size and composition five years after tree establishment. The seed bank was lower in Enterolobium cyclocarpum fallows than in the other tree fallows at both 0-5 and 5-10 cm depths. Nuclea latifolia and Terminalia superba tree fallows had the highest seed banks despite the fact that they had the highest floor litter cover. There was no correlation between light transmission and seed bank suggesting that other factors than shade were responsible for the differences in the seed bank observed in the different tree plantations. Generally, Talinum triangulare, sedges, Ageratum conyzoides, Spermacoce ocymoides, and Oldenlandia corymbosa were the dominant species in all tree fallows.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Enterolobium cyclocarpum fallows had lower seed banks than other tree fallows at both sampled depths.
- Taxon
- Enterolobium cyclocarpum
Enterolobium cyclocarpume0 - Outcome
- seed banke0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Qualifier
- 0-5 and 5-10 cm depthse0
- Comparator
- other tree fallowse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The seed bank was lower in Enterolobium cyclocarpum fallows than in the other tree fallows at both 0-5 and 5-10 cm depths”
Claim · model-written summary
Nuclea latifolia fallows had among the highest seed banks despite high litter cover.
Verbatim
e0“Nuclea latifolia and Terminalia superba tree fallows had the highest seed banks despite the fact that they had the highest floor litter cover”
Claim · model-written summary
Terminalia superba fallows had among the highest seed banks despite high litter cover.
- Taxon
- Terminalia superba
Terminalia superbae0 - Outcome
- seed bankse0
- Direction
- higheste0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Nuclea latifolia and Terminalia superba tree fallows had the highest seed banks despite the fact that they had the highest floor litter cover”
Claim · model-written summary
Light transmission did not correlate with seed bank size.
Verbatim
e0“There was no correlation between light transmission and seed bank”
t0“Differences in weed seed banks in planted tree fallows in southwestern Nigeria”
Claim · model-written summary
Talinum triangulare, sedges and Ageratum conyzoides were dominant across the tree fallows.
Verbatim
e0“Talinum triangulare, sedges, Ageratum conyzoides, Spermacoce ocymoides, and Oldenlandia corymbosa were the dominant species in all tree fallows”
t0“Differences in weed seed banks in planted tree fallows in southwestern Nigeria”
Claim · model-written summary
Spermacoce ocymoides and Oldenlandia corymbosa were dominant across the tree fallows.
Verbatim
e0“Spermacoce ocymoides, and Oldenlandia corymbosa were the dominant species in all tree fallows”
t0“Differences in weed seed banks in planted tree fallows in southwestern Nigeria”