Seedling addition experiment in field D . Year 1996 Aboveground biomass data

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Cedar Creek Natural History Area; Long Term; Ecology; Successional dynamics; Primary Productivity; Disturbance Patterns; Nutrient Budgets; Nutrient Cycles; Climatic Variation; Biodiversity; Ecosystem functioning; Nitrogen limitation; Fire Frequency; Plant Competition; ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM; AGROSTIS SCABRA; ALLIUM STELLATUM; AMBROSIA CORONOPIFOLIA; AMORPHA CANESCENS; ANDROPOGON GERARDI; ANEMONE CYLINDRICA; ANTENNARIA NEGLECTA; ARTEMISIA LUDOVICIANA; ASCLEPIAS OVALIFOLIA; ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA; ASCLEPIAS VERTICILLATA; ASTER AZUREUS; ASTER LAEVIS; ASTER SERICEUS; ASTER ERICOIDES; ASTER OBLONGIFOLIUS; BOUTELOUA CURTIPENDULA; BOUTELOUA GRACILIS; BOUTELOUA HIRSUTA; CALAMOVILFA LONGIFOLIA; CALYLOPHUS SERRULATA; CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA; CAREX SP; COMANDRA RICHARDSIANA; COREOPSIS PALMATA; CYPERUS SP; DELPHINIUM VIRESCENS; ERAGROSTIS SPECTABILIS; EUPHORBIA GLYPTOSPERMA; GEUM TRIFOLIUM; HELIANTHEMUM BICKNELLII; HELIANTHUS RIGIDUS; HETEROTHECA VILLOSA; HEUCHAERA RICHARDSONII; KOELERIA CRISTATA; LATHYRUS VENOSUS; LESPEDEZA CAPITATA; LIATRIS ASPERA; LITHOSPERMUM CAROLINIENSE; MUHLENBERGIA CUSPIDATA; MUHLENBERGIA RACEMOSA; ONOSMODIUM MOLLE; OXYBAPHUS HIRSUTUS; PANICUM OLIGOSANTHES; PANICUM PERLONGUM; PANICUM PRAECOCIOUS; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PARTHENOCISSUS QUINQUEFOLIA; PENSTEMON GRACILIS; PETALOSTEMUM PURPUREUM; PHYSALIS VIRGINIANA; POA PRATENSIS; POLYGALA POLYGAMA; POTENTILLA ARGUTA; PRUNUS SP; QUERCUS ELLIPSOIDALIS; QUERCUS MACROCARPA; RANUNCULUS RHOMBOIDEUS; RATIBIDA COLUMNIFERA; ROSA ARKANSANA; RHUS GLABRA; RHUS RADICANS; SCHIZACHYRIUM SCOPARIUM; SENECIO PAUPERCULUS; SENECIO PLATTENSIS; SISYRINCHIUM CAMPESTRE; SOLIDAGO GRAMINIFOLIA; SOLIDAGO MISSOURIENSIS; SOLIDAGO NEMORALIS; SOLIDAGO PTARMICOIDES; SOLIDAGO RIGIDA; SOLIDAGO SPECIOSA; SORGHASTRUM NUTANS; STIPA SPARTEA; TRADESCANTIA OCCIDENTALIS; VIOLA PEDATIFIDA; ZIZIA AUREA; Cedar Creek; Saint-Paul; Campanula rotundifolia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.11517; http://metacat.lternet.edu/knb/metacat/knb-lter-cdr.7996112.2/xml

The purpose of this experiment is to determine the extent to which species not normally present in a small plot are able to survive and potentially reproduce if added to the plot as seedlings. In the area of Field D in which this experiment is to be done, the average 4 x 4 meter area contains approximately 30 species of vascular plants. Into replicate 4 x 4 meter areas we will either add no species or we will add the seedlings of 50 native prairie species. These were grown by Prairie Restoration, Inc. and were planted on May 27-28, 1993. In adding the seedlings of a variety of species to these plots we will, for all cases, add three seedlings per species into a given plot. These will be fairly uniformally spaced throughout each plot. Thus, the average distance between seedlings will be approximately 28cm apart.