Abstract
The moisture content was determined periodically (April to November) in non-podzolic outwash sand supporting a 17-year-old fully stocked red-pine plantation and in parts of the same plantation reduced 50 % by thinning. The diameter increment of average trees was recorded by ring-band dendro-meters. The water supply in the 4-ft root zone of thinned plantations averaged nearly 10% or 500 tons/acre. This soil gained moisture from rainfall during the critical midsummer period. Soil of the fully-stocked stand had a high moisture content early in the growing season because of a delayed thaw. Early in July, decrease in moisture below the field capacity of 7% coincided with retarded diameter growth of trees, probably because of restricted capillary transfer and moisture depletion in the vicinity of absorbing roots. 50% thinning reduced the growing stock beyond permissible limits and was favourable to weed growth. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
The water supply in the 4-ft root zone of thinned red pine plantations averaged nearly 10% (500 tons/acre).
- Taxon
- red pine
Pinus resinosat0 - Organ / stage
- root zonee0
- Treatment
- thinned plantationse0
- Outcome
- water supplye0
- Value
- nearly 10% or 500 tons/acree0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“red pine stands”
e0“The water supply in the 4-ft root zone of thinned plantations averaged nearly 10% or 500 tons/acre”
Claim · model-written summary
The soil of red pine stands gained moisture from midsummer rainfall.
- Taxon
- red pinePinus resinosat0
- Outcome
- moisturee1
- Qualifier
- from rainfall during the critical midsummer periode1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“red pine stands”
e1“This soil gained moisture from rainfall during the critical midsummer period”
Claim · model-written summary
The fully-stocked red pine stand had high soil moisture early in the growing season because of a delayed thaw.
- Taxon
- red pinePinus resinosat0
- Outcome
- moisture contente2
- Qualifier
- because of a delayed thawe2
- Setting
- early in the growing seasone2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“red pine stands”
e2“Soil of the fully-stocked stand had a high moisture content early in the growing season because of a delayed thaw”
Claim · model-written summary
Decreasing soil moisture below field capacity coincided with retarded diameter growth of red pine trees in early July.
- Taxon
- red pinePinus resinosat0
- Outcome
- diameter growthe3
- Direction
- retardede3
- Qualifier
- restricted capillary transfere3
- Comparator
- field capacity of 7%e3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“red pine stands”
e3“Early in July, decrease in moisture below the field capacity of 7% coincided with retarded diameter growth of trees, probably because of restricted capillary transfer and moisture depletion in the vicinity of absorbing roots”
Claim · model-written summary
50% thinning reduced the growing stock of red pine beyond permissible limits.
- Taxon
- red pinePinus resinosat0
- Treatment
- 50% thinninge4
- Outcome
- growing stocke4
- Direction
- reducede4
- Qualifier
- beyond permissible limitse4
- Comparator
- fully-stocked stande2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“red pine stands”
e2“Soil of the fully-stocked stand had a high moisture content early in the growing season because of a delayed thaw”
e4“50% thinning reduced the growing stock beyond permissible limits and was favourable to weed growth”
Claim · model-written summary
50% thinning was favourable to weed growth in red pine stands.
- Taxon
- red pinePinus resinosat0
- Treatment
- 50% thinninge4
- Interactor
- weede4weed
- Outcome
- weed growthe4
- Direction
- favourablee4
- Comparator
- fully-stocked stande2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“red pine stands”
e2“Soil of the fully-stocked stand had a high moisture content early in the growing season because of a delayed thaw”
e4“50% thinning reduced the growing stock beyond permissible limits and was favourable to weed growth”