IAI-Data-CRN_012_Marchesini_ch_cov: Basal cover of Chusquea culeou

During 2001 a native forest in the South of Argentina experienced the massive flowering and death of the bamboo Chusquea culeou, a dominant understory species. We proposed to assess the impact of this event on: a) the environmental factors and b) the population dynamics of forest vegetation. We recorded air and soil temperature, relative air humidity and light intensity under two conditions: death and green bamboo. We also registered the survivorship, growth and herbivory rates on Nothofagus nervosa, a canopy dominant tree and Chusquea culeou seedlings. We established 12 transects of 5 m (length) by 0.30 m (broad) and we recorded the basal cover of Chusquea culeou. This was determined by the lineal interception technique (Greig-Smith 1983).