GLBRC Sustainability Data Catalog

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
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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

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Data Excerpt

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
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