Understorey plant community and associated environmental variables during the period September 2012 and February 2016 at EucFACE
  • Description

    This package contains the base datasets used in the paper–entitled “Elevated CO2 concentrations reduce C4 cover and decrease diversity of understorey plant community in a Eucalyptus woodland”– in press at Journal of Ecology (accepted on 26th January 2018). The effects of elevated CO2 concentrations on understorey vegetation was studies at the Eucalyptus Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (EucFACE) experiment. Understorey species cover was determined in four, randomly located permanent 2 x 2 m plots in each of the six rings. Presence/absence of all species was surveyed in each of one hundred 20 x 20 cm cells per plot. The first survey was conducted in September 2012, and all but graminoid species were identified. Graminoid species identifications were confirmed in December 2012, when most were in flower. Subsequent surveys were conducted in the same plots in summer (January 2014, January 2015 and February 2016) and identified all understorey species at these times. In addition to raw data of forb and graminoid cover, ring means of environmental variables for each survey year (soil moisture, understorey temperature and photosynthetic radiation, and soil availability of nitrate, ammonium and phosphate) are included.
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      Data publication title Understorey plant community and associated environmental variables during the period September 2012 and February 2016 at EucFACE
    • Description

      This package contains the base datasets used in the paper–entitled “Elevated CO2 concentrations reduce C4 cover and decrease diversity of understorey plant community in a Eucalyptus woodland”– in press at Journal of Ecology (accepted on 26th January 2018). The effects of elevated CO2 concentrations on understorey vegetation was studies at the Eucalyptus Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (EucFACE) experiment. Understorey species cover was determined in four, randomly located permanent 2 x 2 m plots in each of the six rings. Presence/absence of all species was surveyed in each of one hundred 20 x 20 cm cells per plot. The first survey was conducted in September 2012, and all but graminoid species were identified. Graminoid species identifications were confirmed in December 2012, when most were in flower. Subsequent surveys were conducted in the same plots in summer (January 2014, January 2015 and February 2016) and identified all understorey species at these times. In addition to raw data of forb and graminoid cover, ring means of environmental variables for each survey year (soil moisture, understorey temperature and photosynthetic radiation, and soil availability of nitrate, ammonium and phosphate) are included.
      • Data type dataset
    • Keywords
      • C3 Plants
      • C4 Plants
      • CO2 Treatment
      • Cynodon dactylon
      • Microlaena stipoides
      • Soil Nutrients
      • Understorey Community
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    - Coverage
      Temporal (time) coverage
    • Start date 2012/09/01
    • End date 2016/02/29
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      Spatial (location,mapping) coverage
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    - Citation
      Citation Hasegawa, Shun (2018): Understorey plant community and associated environmental variables during the period September 2012 and February 2016 at EucFACE. Western Sydney University.

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