Canopy Species and Height — GLBRC Scale-up Experiment
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The composition and cover of canopy-forming plants is measured in switchgrass, restored prairie, and reference fields at Lux Arbor Reserve and Marshall Farm using the line-point intercept method. The first plant species intercepted vertically and its height is recorded every 5 meters along four NS transects stretching the full length of each field.
This datatable is part of the GLBRC Scale-up Experiment Cropping Systems dataset.
This dataset contains data on plant communities in fields at Lux Arbor Reserve (L1-L3) and Marshall Farm (M1-M4) planted to corn (L1, M1), switchgrass (L2, M3), and restored prairie (L3, M2) in 2010 after a 2009 no-till soybean crop in all fields to convert tilled corn-soybean-wheat rotations (AGR) at Lux Arbor and fields in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) at Marshall Farm to no-till bioenergy crops. One field at Marshall Farm (M4) remains as CRP brome grass to serve as a reference. Each field has 10 sampling stations (S1-S10) around which most sampling occurs.
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| Experiment: | GLBRC Scale-up Experiment |
| Data available from: | July 2018 to October 2020 |
| Dataset: | GLBRC141 |
| Datatable ID: | GLBRC082-016.64 |
| Core Areas | Primary Production |
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| Last Updated | 2023-10-24 |
| Variate | Description | Units |
|---|---|---|
| sample date | sample date | |
| site | experimental site | |
| treatment | the treatment name | |
| treatment code | treatment code name | |
| transect line | sampled transect line | |
| species | sampled species | |
| height | plant height | cm |
| has lodged | had the plant that was measured lodged? | |
| comment |
| Protocols |
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| Canopy Species Composition and Height - Line-point Intercept Method |
| GLBRC Scale-Up Experiment – Sampling |
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| sample_date | site | treatment | treatment_code | line | species | height_cm | has_lodged | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-10 | Scaleup | AGR-Switchgrass | L2 | 1 | Panicum virgatum L. | 121.0 | false | |
| 2019-09-10 | Scaleup | AGR-Switchgrass | L2 | 1 | Panicum virgatum L. | 199.0 | false | |
| 2019-09-10 | Scaleup | AGR-Switchgrass | L2 | 1 | Panicum virgatum L. | 162.0 | false | |
| 2019-09-10 | Scaleup | AGR-Switchgrass | L2 | 1 | Panicum virgatum L. | 151.0 | false | |
| 2019-09-10 | Scaleup | AGR-Switchgrass | L2 | 1 | Panicum virgatum L. | 179.0 | false |