Vegetation Composition and Management Action Data (2015-2020) from Experimental Plots at Badlands National Park, Wind Cave National Park, and Scotts Bluff National Monument Used to Develop the ABAM Model
Dates
Publication Date
2021-08-02
Time Period
2015
Time Period
2017
Time Period
2018
Time Period
2019
Time Period
2020
Citation
Symstad, A.J., 2021, Vegetation composition and management action data (2015-2020) from experimental plots at Badlands National Park, Wind Cave National Park, and Scotts Bluff National Monument used to develop the ABAM model: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Y9HZGE.
Summary
Plant species cover and richness data were collected in experimental plots at three sites: one at Badlands National Park (BADL), South Dakota, one at Scotts Bluff National Monument (SCBL), Nebraska, and one at Wind Cave National Park (WICA), South Dakota. At the Badlands and Scotts Bluff sites, data were collected in the summers of 2015 and 2017-2020 in 50 x 50-m plots with one of five treatments: unburned for the entire time of data collection, burned only in fall 2016, burned only in fall 2018, burned in both fall 2016 and fall 2018, or burned then treated with the herbicide imazapic in fall 2016. At the Wind Cave site, data were collected in the summers of 2017-2020 in 10 x 10-m plots in which the herbicide indaziflam was applied [...]
Summary
Plant species cover and richness data were collected in experimental plots at three sites: one at Badlands National Park (BADL), South Dakota, one at Scotts Bluff National Monument (SCBL), Nebraska, and one at Wind Cave National Park (WICA), South Dakota. At the Badlands and Scotts Bluff sites, data were collected in the summers of 2015 and 2017-2020 in 50 x 50-m plots with one of five treatments: unburned for the entire time of data collection, burned only in fall 2016, burned only in fall 2018, burned in both fall 2016 and fall 2018, or burned then treated with the herbicide imazapic in fall 2016. At the Wind Cave site, data were collected in the summers of 2017-2020 in 10 x 10-m plots in which the herbicide indaziflam was applied either in fall 2017 or spring 2018, with or without previous removal of standing vegetation (mowing and raking). Data were collected using a point-intercept method. At the Badlands and Scotts Bluff sites, this method used 100 points per plot; at the Wind Cave site, this method used 64 points per plot. Species-level data were used to calculate attributes (relative percent cover, diversity) used in the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model. This model is described in the parent publication.
Symstad, A., Baldwin, H., and Post van der Burg, M., 2022, Adaptive management framework and decision support tool for invasive annual bromes in seven Northern Great Plains National Park Service units, https://doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2288750.
These data were obtained by USGS to evaluate the effects of different management actions (prescribed fire and herbicide application) on invasive annual brome grasses and other components of vegetation in northern mixed-grass prairie. They are a small portion of the data used to parameterize the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model described in the parent publication. Other data used for parameterizing this model were collected by the National Park Service and are therefore not included in this dataset.
