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Experiments

Experiment 108 - Soil Disturbance Gradient

This study is one of six experiments (E086, E103, E104, E105, E106, E107, E108) that test the influence of many factors on the diversity and abundance of prairie plant communities. Each community is a 2.25 meter square plot seeded with the same amount of seeds from 59 different species of plants. The first experiment is a nitrogen-fire-water factorial. The second experiment is a nitrogen-pH factorial. The third experiment is a nitrogen gradient and the fourth experiment is a nitrogen gradient with a diversity of seeds added each year. This experiment (E108) is a disturbance gradient and the last experiment has three levels of soil heterogeneity (variance from the mean) for both nitrogen and pH.

Methods for e108

Datasets


Dataset IDTitleRange of Years (# years with data)
lpe108Percent light penetration1991-1991 (1 year)
pce108Plant species percent cover data1990-1990 (1 year)
fle108Reproductive output--number of flowering heads1991-1991 (1 year)