Claim · #6492188
Calliandra calothyrsus · facilitation · Zea mays
facilitation · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“fast-growing trees rapidly root into nitrate-accumulation zone inaccessible to maize”
- Authors
- Buck L.E., Lassoie J.P., Fernandes E.C.M.
- Year
- 1999
- Publication
- CRC Press / Lewis Publishers
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Calliandra calothyrsus is a well-documented deep-rooting agroforestry tree used in East African fallow systems; hydraulic lift and subsoil N capture for subsequent maize is established in Kenya field literature.”
- soil-scientist · plausible
“Calliandra calothyrsus is a well-documented deep-rooting agroforestry legume; nitrate leaching below maize rooting depth and subsequent biomass-N release are established mechanisms in Kenyan improved fallow systems.”
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