Approved Site Use Requests (SURFs) — Main Cropping System Experiment (MCSE)
Data in the KBS LTER core database may not be published without written permission of the lead investigator or project director Full terms of use
Site Use Request Forms are filled out by investigators wishing to conduct sampling on LTER properties. When approved, the request is listed on the web.
This datatable is part of the Agronomic Practices of the Main Cropping System Experiment dataset.
This dataset includes information on the agronomic practices of the Main Cropping System Experiment (MCSE), including the LTER Main Site treatments (T1-T8) and the Mid-successional (TSF) and Forested (TCF, TDF) sites.
Most long-term hypotheses of the KBS LTER are tested within the context of the MCSE. The LTER Main Site contains 7 different cropping systems (T1-T7) established in 1988 on a 48-ha area divided into 6 replicate blocks (R1-R6) of seven 1-ha plots. Each system is replicated in each block. The eighth system (T8) is a mown grassland on never-tilled soil, located 200 m off-site and replicated in four 0.06 ha plots.
Current MCSE treatments at the LTER Main Site include:
- Conventional (T1): standard chemical input corn/soybean/wheat rotation conventionally tilled (corn/soybean prior to 1992)
- No-till (T2): standard chemical input corn/soybean/wheat rotation no-tilled (corn/soybean prior to 1992)
- Reduced Input (T3): low chemical input corn/soybean/wheat rotation conventionally tilled (ridge till prior to 1994), with a center prairie strip planted in each replicate in 2019
- Biologically Based (T4): zero chemical input corn/soybean wheat rotation conventionally tilled (ridge till prior to 1994), with a center prairie strip planted in each replicate in 2019
- Poplar (T5): Populus clones on short-rotation (6-7 year) harvest cycle
- Switchgrass (T6): planted in 2019 and converted in 2018 from continuous alfalfa, replanted every 6-7 years)
- Early Successional (T7): early successional community on historically tilled soil abandoned in 1989 and burned annually since 1997
- Mown Grassland (Never Tilled; T8); successional community on never-tilled soil, mown annually since 1960
In 1993 three additional successional sites were added to the MCSE to provide reference communities for population and process comparisons. All are within 3 km of and share the same soil series as the LTER Main Site. These include:
- Mid-successional (TSF): three old-field sites on historically tilled cropland abandoned in the 1950s and 1960s
- Coniferous Forest (TCF): three conifer long-rotation plantations established in 1965
- Deciduous Forest (TDF): three deciduous forest stands, two old-growth and one logged once ca. 1960
For each treatment (and for some, microplots nested within treatment plots) the following variates are routinely measured (described in greater detail in associated datasets):
- plant characteristics including species distributions and abundances, aboveground net primary production by function;
- soil chemical and physical characteristics, including soil moisture, pH, inorganic N pools, total C and N, and bulk density;
- soil biological characteristics including greenhouse gas fluxes, soil leachate, N mineralization potential (buried bags); and
- insect dynamics including distributions and abundances of major insect pests and predators.
Note
Experiment: | Main Cropping System Experiment (MCSE) |
Data available from: | April 2002 to January 2023 |
Dataset: | KBS004 |
Datatable ID: | View_SiteUseRequests.140 |
Repository link: | http://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/e5642426f9200404b6ba3af45ad9c423 |
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Last Updated | 2023-10-24 |
Variate | Description | Units |
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principal investigator | name of investigator posting the request | |
project | title of project served by the proposed sampling effort | |
date | date the request was submitted or the date of the first proposed sampling |
Protocols |
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MCSE: Agronomic Protocol |
Data Excerpt
principal_investigator | project | date |
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Maxwell oerther | the role of manganese and iron in carbon sequestration | 2024-05-14 |
Anita Simic Milas | Mapping Chlorophyll and Nitrogen Using Hyperspectral and Multispectral Satellite Data | 2024-05-09 |
Jen Lau | Feedbacks between social and ecological adaptation--how irrigation affects plant-microbe interactions under drought. | 2024-05-06 |
Dileepa Jayawardena | Corn stover removal effects on grain and stover yields, grain and stover quality, and soil nutrients in a continuous corn system. | 2024-05-02 |
Binod Basyal | Drought legacy effects on switchgrass growth, physiology, rhizobiome and biomass fermentability | 2024-05-01 |
Ashim Datta | Long-term changes in the climate benefits of fertilized switchgrass | 2024-04-29 |
Siddhesh Mane | Switchgrass Nitrogen Gradient on the BCSE | 2024-04-29 |
Christine A Bahlai | Insect Populations via Sticky Traps | 2024-04-29 |
Kadeem Gilbert | Exploring phylloplane pH | 2024-04-26 |
Ashley Darst | Investigating the role of sodium-enriched nectar in pollinator preference and pollination rate | 2024-04-23 |
Mark Hammond | Researching restored prairies' plant diversity and community ecology by manipulation of the number of species and their seed source location (local, midwest, southern) within the landscape of KBS. | 2024-04-23 |
Mark Hammond | WarmX: Investigating the response of early successional grassland plant and soil communities to warming. | 2024-04-23 |
Mark Hammond | REX T7: How do abiotic factors (Warming and Drought) and biotic (suppressed insect herbivory) factors influence plant and soil communities in an early successional community (T7)? | 2024-04-23 |
Geoffrey M. Henebry | Evaluating the Sensitivity of Fine Spatial Resolution X-Band SAR Time Series to the Phenology of Multiple Crops using Capella Space Products | 2024-04-23 |
Mark Hammond | Continued investigations of response of plant communities to long-term nitrogen addition and tillage. Shift to population and eco/evo level questions? | 2024-04-19 |
Allison Zahorec | Belowground biodiversity in bioenergy cropping systems unearthed: Characterizing microarthropod communities with DNA metabarcoding | 2024-04-17 |
Allison Zahorec | Effects of micronutrient additions to soil on N-fixer communities and N-fixation rates | 2024-04-11 |
Annabelle McCarthy | Investigating potential ecological traps: small prairie patches in cropland | 2024-04-10 |
Rachel Drobnak | Prairie strips soil sampling | 2024-04-08 |
Jinho Lee | Changing impacts of reconstructed prairie vegetation on pore characteristics | 2024-04-05 |
Meredith Mann | Nitrogen cycling and belowground food web dynamics in the KBS LTER Resource Gradient | 2024-04-04 |
Christine Charles | Pest Trapping and Wheat Scouting | 2024-04-02 |
Meredith Mann | Sprunger Lab Annual Soil Health and Nematode community assessment across the LTER MCSE | 2024-03-29 |
Blair Van Agen | Cover Crops Effect on Soil and Water Dynamics | 2024-03-27 |
Patrick Copeland | Using data-driven knowledge for profitable soybean management systems | 2024-03-21 |
Jamie Smith | Do prairie strip presence and location within a crop field affect insect abundance and diversity? | 2024-03-20 |
Jamie Smith | Do prairie strip presence and location within a crop field affect bird abundance and diversity? | 2024-03-20 |
Meredith Mann | MSU-Syngenta Soil Health Partnership Pilot Project "Actionable Soil Health" | 2024-03-15 |
DeShae Dillard | Establishing Pest and Beneficial Arthropod Monitoring in the LTAR ACSE | 2024-03-13 |
DeShae Dillard | Assessing the Decomposition Potential of Diptera within Annual Row Crops and Restored Native Grasslands | 2024-03-13 |
DeShae Dillard | Functional Diversity and Community Composition of Diptera in Agroecosystems | 2024-03-13 |
Jamie Smith | Ecosystem services of terrestrial arthropods in prairie strips | 2024-03-05 |
Stephanie Clark | Individual and additive effects of global change factors on Pieris rapae larvae | 2024-03-05 |
Jamie Smith | Butterfly surveys in the LTER | 2024-03-05 |
Poulamee Chakraborty | Molecular Observation Network (summer soil sampling) | 2024-02-27 |
Poulamee Chakraborty | Effect of pore-structure on Microbial O2 consumption: assessed using Stable Isotope Probing | 2024-02-20 |
Deying Wang | “NitroNexus- An international partnership to explore agronomic soil contributions to nitrogenous atmospheric pollutants.” | 2024-02-12 |
Alison Cupples | The Potential of Methanotrophs and Propanotrophs from Agricultural Soils to Degrade Groundwater Contaminants | 2024-02-01 |
Brandon Kristy | Determining the nitrogen fixation potential of hyphal-associated diazotrophs across a nitrogen fertility gradient | 2024-01-23 |
Ningzhi Luo-Li | Soil Respiration in Established Biofuel Cropping Systems | 2024-01-22 |
Jim Moran | Spatially resolved rhizosphere function: Elucidating key controls on nutrient interactions | 2023-12-04 |
Tvisha Martin | Soil food webs through time: How does nematode community composition shift over a 30-year period under varying agroecosystems? | 2023-10-27 |
Glade Bogar | Drydown 2 | 2023-10-16 |
Holly Vander Stel | Air and soil Microbiome Survey of KBS LTER | 2023-10-10 |
Allison Zahorec | Elucidating C & N flows through microarthropod biomass pools | 2023-09-28 |
Dileepa Jayawardena | GLBRC-BCSE_G1 | 2023-09-27 |
Claire Volk | Cover Cropping Management Effects on Phosphorus Pools in Long Term Cropping Systems | 2023-09-27 |
Jennifer Blesh | Estimating legume N2 fixation and partial N balance in the Croplands Common Experiment | 2023-09-13 |
Maoz Dor | Shifting precipitation patterns in the U.S. Midwest and their influence on soil health | 2023-08-17 |
Brendan O'Neill | Assessing Nitrification Potential and Carbon Use Efficiency on LTAR Soils Varying in Yield Stability | 2023-08-11 |