Survey of high marsh plant structure and biomass for Spartina, Juncus, Borrichia and Batis specimens on Sapelo Island, Georgia during May to June 2015

From May 29th to June 27th of 2015, plant specimens of Spartina, Juncus, Borrichia, and Batis were extracted from Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Study Site 6 and brought to the UGA Marine Institute research center for structural and biomass measurements. The focus of the structural measurements were to capture the top-down horizontal length and branching angles of rhizomes connecting the above-ground plant shoots. The height of plant shoots were also measured, along with the dry-weight mass of all measured plant components. The purpose of these measurements was to provide data that will be the basis for parameter values used in the Virtual Prairie agent-based model for clonal plant growth and competition. Note that a web-based index of plant photographs from this study are available at http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/public/datasets/ancillary/PLT-GCET-1508/.