Claim · model-written summary
No stand component showed systematic nutrient uptake.
Verbatim
e0“Uptake of some of the nutrients in the waste water was occurring in the vegetation, but no systematic nutrient uptake by any one component of the stand was observed.”
Title
The Response of a Southern Appalachian Forest to Waste Water Irrigation
G. H. Brister; R. C. Schultz Journal of Environmental Quality 1981. doi:10.2134/jeq1981.00472425001000020005x
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Vegetation took up some wastewater nutrients.
- Intervention effect Overstory trees showed no height growth response to irrigation.
- Intervention effect Overstory trees showed no breast-height diameter response to irrigation.
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased overstory stem diameter growth within the canopy.
- Intervention effect Irrigation significantly increased understory tree diameter at 0.3 m.
- Intervention effect Irrigation significantly increased understory tree height.
- Intervention effect Irrigation significantly increased upper stem diameter growth in white pine.
- Intervention effect Irrigation decreased ground vegetation biomass.
- Intervention effect Irrigation decreased ground vegetation diversity.
- Intervention effect Irrigation decreased the number of ground vegetation individuals.