Kahmark, K., M. Jones, S. Bohm, N. Baker, and G. P. Robertson. 2024. Rainfall Manipulation Shelters for Agricultural Research. Kellogg Biological Station Long-term Ecological Research Special Publication. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10607631 ..
This document covers the design, construction, irrigation, deployment, and instrumentation of rainfall manipulation shelters for controlling rainfall and establishing drought conditions in agricultural field research. Shelters are used to alter or manipulate rainfall and thereby create experimental footprints in agronomically active systems in order to investigate ecosystem resilience and examine the influence of environmental variability on ecosystem dynamics. These particular shelters are used in the Main Cropping System Experiment (MCSE) of the Kellogg Biological Station Long‐term Ecological Research site (KBS LTER), and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)’s Biofuel Cropping System Experiment (BCSE) and Marginal Land Experiment (MLE).
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