Old-Field Chronosequence: Plant Productivity. Year 1993 Aboveground biomass data

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1995
• 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; MOSSES & LICHENS; MISCELLANEOUS LITTER; AGROPYRON REPENS; SCHIZACHYRIUM SCOPARIUM; PANICUM OLIGOSANTHES; POA PRATENSIS; SETARIA LUTESCENS (GLAUCA); AMBROSIA ARTEMISIIFOLIA ELATIOR; BERTEROA INCANA; ERIGERON CANADENSIS; HEDEOMA HISPIDA; RUMEX ACETOSELLA; SILENE ANTIRRHINA; ARISTIDA BASIRAMEA; POA COMPRESSA; CYPERUS SP; ERIGERON STRIGOSUS; POLYGONUM TENUE; HIERACIUM LONGIPILUM; AGROSTIS SCABRA; ANEMONE CYLINDRICA; POLYGALA POLYGAMA; CAREX SP; RUBUS SP; PARTHENOCISSUS INSERTA; TRAGOPOGON DUBIUS (MAJOR); PANICUM PRAECOCIOUS; ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM(LANULOSA); PHYSALIS VIRGINIANA; LESPEDEZA CAPITATA; OENOTHERA BIENNIS; EQUISETUM LAEVIGATUM; DIGITARIA ISCHAEMUM; POLYGONUM CONVOLVULUS; CENCHRUS LONGISPINUS; PANICUM CAPILLARE; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; LEPIDIUM DENSIFLORUM; VICIA VILLOSA; ANDROPOGON GERARDI; LYCHNIS ALBA; SISYRINCHIUM CAMPESTRE; SORGHASTRUM NUTANS; ANTENNARIA NEGLECTA; RUDBECKIA SEROTINA; CREPIS TECTORUM; EUPHORBIA GLYPTOSPERMA; VERBASCUM THAPSUS; CHRYSOPSIS VILLOSA; MISCELLANEOUS HERBS; ARABIS DIVARICARPA; ARABIS GLABRA; TRIFOLIUM SP; FRAGARIA VIRGINIANA; SOLIDAGO NEMORALIS; ACER RUBRUM; PANICUM PERLONGUM; FUNGI; LITHOSPERMUM CAROLINIENSE; AMBROSIA CORONOPIFOLIA; STACHYS PALUSTRIS; LACTUCA CANADENSIS; LACTUCA SP; MISCELLANEOUS LEGUMES; RANUNCULUS RHOMBOIDEUS; ASTER AZUREUS; SOLIDAGO RIGIDA; CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA; VIOLA SAGITTATA; OXALIS SP; ERAGROSTIS SPECTABILIS; LINARIA VULGARIS; STIPA SPARTEA; CALAMOVILFA LONGIFOLIA; VIOLA PEDATIFIDA; ARTEMISIA LUDOVICIANA; POLYGONELLA ARTICULATA; ROSA ARKANSANA; SCUTELLARIA PARVULA; ARTEMISIA (CAUDATA) CAMPESTRIS; HELIANTHUS LAETIFLORUS; LIATRIS ASPERA; MONARDA FISTULOSA; PHYSALIS HETEROPHYLLA; MOLLUGO VERTICILLATA; SALSOLA KALI; GRASS SEEDLINGS; Cedar Creek; Kali; Saint-Paul; Campanula rotundifolia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.27291; http://metacat.lternet.edu/knb/metacat/knb-lter-cdr.799354.2/xml

The goal of this research is to study the change in plant growth and species distribution during succession. Annual plant growth above ground is annually sampled in more than 20 fields from 4 permanently marked 3m x 4m plots in each field. These fields were previously cultivated, but then abandoned from agriculture at various times in the past. The fields were left undisturbed for plants to develop from seeds within the soil or brought into the fields by wind or animals. The fields included in this study are 4, 5, 10, 24, 26, 28, 35, 39, 41, 45, 53, 70, 72, 77 and the Lawrence strip that was abandoned in 1988. This experiment was started in 1988 by lead investigators David Tilman and Johannes Knops.