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Clipping Effects on Bermuda Grass Biomass
Author(s) -
Dittmer Howard J.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.2307/1934395
Subject(s) - tops , clipping (morphology) , biomass (ecology) , dry weight , biology , shoot , zoology , botany , agronomy , mathematics , geometry , philosophy , linguistics , azimuth
Clipping Bermuda grass every few days in its first year of growth to keep it at 6 different heights resulted in a variation of weights for both roots and tops in the harvested plants. The higher the grass was permitted to grow the greater the weight of both roots and tops but the root/shoot ratio remained constant at about 40% roots to tops. The dry weight of tops in unclipped plots was about 2.35 times and the roots 2.0 times those in plots maintained at 12 mm.