ForageQuality.Dataset.xls

<b>Article title</b>: Floristic composition mediates change in forage nutritive quality of Atlantic mountain grasslands after experimental grazing exclusion <br> <b>Authors</b>: Gonzalo García-Baquero, Iñaki Odriozola &amp; Arantza Aldezabal <br> <b>Location</b>: Aralar massif, northern Iberian Peninsula. <br> <b>Experiment design</b>: four grassland sites (blocks) were selected in the Aralar grassland system; then three "treatments" (three levels of the fixed factor ) were applied in each of these four blocks. Eight forage quality variables as well as floristic composition were measured in each Site x Treatment combination 5-6 times per year during 6 years. This corresponds to a repeated-measures Randomized Block Design, where is the random factor, is the fixed factor and is the within-block (fixed) factor. <br> <b>Measured variables</b>: The first three columns (Site, Treatment, Time) specify the experiment design.The levels of the random factor Site are Alotza, Igaratza, Oidui, and Uzkuiti. <br>The levels of the fixed factor Treatment are A.Grazing, B. Cage, and C. Exclosure. Time is specified as a quantitative (discrete) variable (1, 2, 3…), where Time = 1 corresponds to measurements taken in June 2005