Plant quadrats in mixed-grass prairie

Herbaceous plants
Community
Local
Experimental
Time series
EcoData Retriever ready
Taxonomic Group Herbaceous plants
Level of Organization Community
Scale Local
Data Type Experimental, Time series
Data Retriever Yes

Quadrats (36 ungrazed; 15 grazed) in a Kansas mixed grass prairie that were censused annually from 1932 to 1972. Located in Hays, Kansas, all individual plants were mapped in these 1 m² quadrats located in a pasture owned by Fort Hays State University. Monthly precipitation and average temperature data for the site are also included.

 

Dataset Location: Adler et al. 2007 Ecological Archives

Location: approximately 2 miles west of the town of Hays, Kansas (38.8 º N, 99.3 º W)

Timespan: 1932 - 1972

Sampling Frequency: annually

 

Methods: The data were collected using pantographs (Hill 1920), a mechanical device used to make scale drawings, in 51 1-m² quadrats per pasture.

Data Collected: Species, basal cover, location in quadrat

Issues:

Citation: Peter B. Adler, William R. Tyburczy, and William K. Lauenroth. 2007. Long-term mapped quadrats from Kansas prairie: demographic information for herbaceaous plants. Ecology 88:2673. 

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