<b>Data from: Do species respond to multi-year disturbance rhythms and are we missing the beat?</b>
A 15-yr (2006-2020) experiment testing factorially-arranged combinations of fire seasonality (summer, fall, spring) and fire return interval (2, 3, 6-yr) plus non-burned controls was conducted in northern mixed prairie to evaluate effects on Hesperostipa comata. Plots were 20-by-15 m with 3 replicates per treatment. Summer fires were conducted during summer quiescence, fall fires after a <-2.2oC frost and spring fires when Bouteloua gracilis initiated growth. Current-year aboveground biomass was estimated annually by clipping four 0.25-m2 quadrats from each plot during peak biomass. Biomass samples were dried to a constant weight at 60°C and weighed to the nearest 0.01 g before being separated into current and past years’ growth and reweighed to determine current-year biomass as an estimate of productivity.
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| description | <div>A 15-yr (2006-2020) experiment testing factorially-arranged combinations of fire seasonality (summer, fall, spring) and fire return interval (2, 3, 6-yr) plus non-burned controls was conducted in northern mixed prairie to evaluate effects on <em>Hesperostipa comata</em>. Plots were 20-by-15 m with 3 replicates per treatment. Summer fires were conducted during summer quiescence, fall fires after a <-2.2<sup>o</sup>C frost and spring fires when <em>Bouteloua gracilis</em> initiated growth. Current-year aboveground biomass was estimated annually by clipping four 0.25-m<sup>2</sup> quadrats from each plot during peak biomass. Biomass samples were dried to a constant weight at 60°C and weighed to the nearest 0.01 g before being separated into current and past years’ growth and reweighed to determine current-year biomass as an estimate of productivity.</div><p></p> |
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| identifier | 10.15482/USDA.ADC/26349127.v1 |
| keyword |
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"disturbance regime",
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"rangeland",
"return interval",
"seasonality",
"semi-arid grassland"
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| modified | 2025-11-21 |
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| temporal | 2008-07-15/2020-07-14 |
| title | <b>Data from: Do species respond to multi-year disturbance rhythms and are we missing the beat?</b> |
