Early Successional Microplot ANPP — Main Cropping System Experiment (MCSE)
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This table is drawn from https://lter.kbs.msu.edu/datatables/154 and https://lter.kbs.msu.edu/datatables/685 by excluding surface litter and summing the biomass.
This datatable is part of the Plant Community and Ecosystem Responses to Long-term Fertilization & Disturbance dataset.
This work is part of the long-term sampling and monitoring of successional dynamics in abandoned fields – and responses to N-fertilization. Data from this research has been, and will continue to, contribute to LTER cross-site analysis of plant community dynamics, diversity-productivity, and responses to fertilization and disturbance.
N-fertilized and tilled (disturbed) microplots are located in the NW corner of all treatment 7 (early successional communities) on the LTER main site.
Experimental treatments are:
- Nitrogen addition vs. no nitrogen addition and 2) Annual disturbance vs. undisturbed
Note
| Experiment: | Main Cropping System Experiment (MCSE) |
| Data available from: | July 1989 to September 2019 |
| Dataset: | KBS055 |
| Datatable ID: | KBS055-004.56 |
| Core Areas | Primary Production,Disturbance |
| Repository link: | http://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/ea22c735ddfe17c595ccca978a87d109 |
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| Last Updated | 2023-10-24 |
| Variate | Description | Units |
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| sample date | the date the plot was sampled | |
| treatment | the field treatment that was sampled | |
| replicate | the field replicate that was sampled | |
| method | the sample method used. 'sorted to species' means that an attempt was made to sort the biomass to species and any remaining biomass was classified as unsorted. 'not_ sorted' indicates that no attempt was made to sort the biomass to species and all of the biomass was classified as unsorted. | |
| disturbed | was the microplot tilled? | |
| fertilized | was the microplot fertilized? | |
| biomass g m2 | the dry weight of the biomass in grams/meter squared | g/m2 |
| area sampled | the area that was harvested for the sample in square meters |
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Data Excerpt
| sample_date | treatment | replicate | method | disturbed | fertilized | biomass_g_m2 | area_sampled |
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| 2022-09-21 | T7 | R3 | not_sorted | disturbed | fertilized | 562.88 | 1.0 |
| 2022-09-21 | T7 | R4 | not_sorted | disturbed | fertilized | 713.31 | 1.0 |
| 2022-09-21 | T7 | R4 | not_sorted | disturbed | unfertilized | 306.06 | 1.0 |
| 2022-09-21 | T7 | R5 | not_sorted | disturbed | unfertilized | 492.17 | 1.0 |
| 2022-09-21 | T7 | R5 | not_sorted | disturbed | fertilized | 972.09 | 1.0 |