Net Primary Production from a Subtropical Pasture, South East Queensland Peri-Urban SuperSite, Samford, 2011-2013

Pasture growth was estimated by taking biomass cuts at roughly monthly intervals from a subtropical pasture at the location of the eddy covariance tower on the Samford Ecological Research station. The pasture was dominated by paspalum dilalatum and several native species. Cuts were taken at 4 random locations of the 5 ha pasture and separated into live and dead components and analysed for dry matter production.