Claim · model-written summary
Grass competition significantly reduced mesquite dry weight.
- Taxon
- P. glandulosa
Neltuma glandulosae0 - Treatment
- grown with S. scopariume0
- Interactor
- S. scoparium
Schizachyrium scopariume0other - Outcome
- P. glandulosa above-, belowground, and total dry weighte0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“When P. glandulosa was grown with S. scoparium, there was a significant decrease in P. glandulosa above-, belowground, and total dry weight at all S. scoparium densities tested.”
Title
Competition between Schizachyrium scoparium and Prosopis glandulosa
O. W. van Auken; J. K. Bush American Journal of Botany 1988. doi:10.2307/2443997
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Mesquite did not significantly reduce grass dry weight.
- Association Mesquite root-to-shoot ratio rose nearly threefold with grass density.
- Association Grass root-to-shoot ratio rose nearly threefold with grass density.
- Association Grass flowering stalk number and length declined with density.
- Intervention effect Mesquite caused a slight nonsignificant reduction in grass flowering stalks.
- Observation The authors predict low mesquite establishment in dense productive grasslands.