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Plant community data for annual brome management experimental plots in grasslands of Badlands National Park, South Dakota, and Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska, 2015-2018

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2015
End Date
2018

Citation

Symstad, A.J., 2020, Plant community data for annual brome management experimental plots in grasslands of Badlands National Park, South Dakota, and Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska, 2015-2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P99MUP9L.

Summary

Plant cover data were collected in experimental plots at two sites, one at Badlands National Park, South Dakota, and one at Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska. At each site, 40 50 x 50 m plots were assigned randomly to one of the following treatments: control (no action), burn-only (prescribed fire in fall 2016), burn+herbicide (prescribed fire followed by imazapic application in fall 2016), and burn+seed (prescribed fire followed by drilling native grass seed in fall 2016). Pre-treatment data were collected in 2015, and post-treatment data were collected in 2017 and 2018. The dataset includes four tables: (1) plant cover and species richness metrics analyzed in the larger work; (2) plant canopy cover data by species; (3) plant [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Amy Symstad, U.S. Geological Survey
Originator :
Amy Symstad
Metadata Contact :
Amy Symstad, U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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CoverRichnessSummary.csv 17.23 KB text/csv
PlotSpeciesLists.csv 414.87 KB text/csv
Point-InterceptData.csv 187.01 KB text/csv
QuadratData.csv 813.27 KB text/csv

Purpose

Data were obtained to compare the effectiveness of prescribed fire alone to prescribed fire combined with herbicide application or native seeding for controlling invasive annual brome grasses and restoring native vegetation in northern Great Plains grasslands with different levels of annual brome invasion.

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