Claim · model-written summary
Total biomass was 95.0% under light crude oil pollution in Bauhinia monandra.
- Taxon
- Bauhinia monandra
Bauhinia monandrae0 - Treatment
- lighte2
- Outcome
- total biomasse4
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede4
- Value
- 95.0%e4
- Setting
- controlled conditione1
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Bauhinia monandra is an agroforestry species in the FABACEAE plant family”
e1“Its sensitivity to crude oil pollution has been evaluated under controlled condition”
e2“The magnitude of the impact for aerial biomass in the light medium & heavy intensities show a reduction of about 92%, 93% & 94%, respectively”
e4“95.0% 95.1% and 96.4% for total biomass were recorded, respectively”
Title
NL Edwin-Wosu; PDS Kinako Global Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences 2004. doi:10.4314/gjpas.v10i4.16448
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Aerial biomass was reduced by about 92% under light crude oil pollution in Bauhinia monandra.
- Intervention effect Aerial biomass was reduced by about 93% under medium crude oil pollution in Bauhinia monandra.
- Intervention effect Aerial biomass was reduced by about 94% under heavy crude oil pollution in Bauhinia monandra.
- Intervention effect Underground biomass loss was 98.1% under light crude oil pollution in Bauhinia monandra.
- Intervention effect Underground biomass loss was 98.3% under medium crude oil pollution in Bauhinia monandra.
- Intervention effect Underground biomass loss was 99.1% under heavy crude oil pollution in Bauhinia monandra.
- Intervention effect Total biomass was 95.1% under medium crude oil pollution in Bauhinia monandra.
- Intervention effect Total biomass was 96.4% under heavy crude oil pollution in Bauhinia monandra.
- Intervention effect Bauhinia monandra (B. monandra) was very susceptible to crude oil pollution at the levels tested.
- Recommendation Bauhinia monandra could serve as a bioindicator of oil pollution in terrestrial environments.