Root carbon/nitrogen data: Multiple Traits of Multiple Plant Species Measured in Monoculture Gardens

These gardens were started in order to establish monocultures of several species of native prairie plants common to Cedar Creek. Several experimental applications will make use of them once the plants are established. Seed from fifty different species was planted.

In the summer of 1992, LTER experiment 111 was initiated. A new monoculture garden was set up adjacent to the existing competition gardens (LTER experiments 26, 55, 69 and 70). The 160 total plots consist of two plot sizes, large (5'x8') and small (5'x4') were built using sheet metal pounded into the ground. The entire garden is surrounded by a 6 foot tall fence above ground and a 4 foot tall fence below ground to exclude herbivores. Seeds were planted in the fall of 1992.

Appropriate treatments were administered to each experiment and sampling was done according to sampling schedules during the 1992 field season.