A short term greenhouse study examined the effects of species competition and clipping on carbon allocation in leafy spurge plants grown with Idaho fescue, Kentucky bluegrass and alfalfa plants. Ninety days after planting one of four clipping treatments was assigned (no clipping on both plants, leafy spurge clipped neighbor unclipped, leafy spurge unclipped neighbor clipped, leafy spurge clipped neighbor clipped) as a clipping intensity of 75%. Twenty-four hours after clipping all plants were treated with labeled carbon, with plants from half of the pots collected 24 hours after labeling and the remaining pots were collected 72 hours after labeling for carbon tracking to be determined.
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