Plant Biomass — GLBRC Biodiversity Experiment

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Above-ground plant biomass of grassland, switchgrass and corn from Michigan Extensive sites of the GLBRC Biofuel Biodiversity Study, divided into broad groups.
At each site, standing plant biomass was clipped to the ground and surface litter was collected from a measured area. Biomass was sorted into broad groups: corn ears, corn stalks, switchgrass, big bluestem, indiangrass, other grass, forbs and surface litter. Biomass was dried and weighed. Robel pole measurements were taken at each site to correlate to biomass.

This datatable is part of the Michigan GLBRC Extensive Sites dataset.

The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center’s (GLBRC) Extensive Sites are farm-scale fields located on working farms. Fields of corn, switchgrass, and restored prairie are represented at each of 10 locations in 13 counties in Michigan.

Note

Experiment:	GLBRC Biodiversity Experiment
Data available from:	August 2008 to September 2010
Dataset:	KBS080
Datatable ID:	KBS080-002.44
Core Areas	Primary Production,Disturbance
Repository link:	http://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/14a2e44a08ca6f7c5eea48833fe14a5b
Related Tables:	Insect Counts via Sticky Traps Plant Species Composition via Nested Circles Method Plant Density via Robel Pole Measurements - Raw Data Plant Species Composition via Transect Method Corn Stand Counts GPS Coordinates of GLBRC Extensive Sites Soil Test Lab Analyses - Agronomic
Personnel:	Kay Gross, lead investigator Tim Dickson, principal contact
Last Updated	2023-10-24

Variate	Description	Units
sample date	date of sample collection
site	experiment location
habitat	biofuel crop
sitename	Extensive site name
species	species sampled
biomass	amount of biomass collected	g/m²
comment	notes about the data row

Protocols
Plant Identification
Aboveground Net Primary Productivity- GLBRC Extensive Sites

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Data Excerpt

sample_date	site	habitat	sitename	species	biomass
2010-09-01	Michigan GLBRC Extensive site	prairie	PR03 2010 StationA	Unsorted grasses	18.42
2010-09-01	Michigan GLBRC Extensive site	prairie	PR03 2010 StationA	Unsorted dicots (forbs)	103.68
2010-09-01	Michigan GLBRC Extensive site	prairie	PR03 2010 StationA	Surface Litter	991.46
2010-09-01	Michigan GLBRC Extensive site	prairie	PR03 2010 StationA	Andropogon gerardii	662.97
2010-09-01	Michigan GLBRC Extensive site	prairie	PR03 2010 StationA	Woody	0.98

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