Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Data Set Details

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GCE-LTER Data Set Summary

Accession:

PLT-GCED-1711b

Research Theme:

Plant Ecology (Directed Study)

Contributors:

Christopher B. Craft, McKenna Stahl, Sarah Widney, Dontrece Smith

Title:

Tidal forest litterfall collection in eight traps deployed at GCE 11 on the Altamaha River in Southeast Georgia from October 2014 to October 2017

Abstract:

We established two 0.1-ha plots in the Site 11 tidal forest in December 2013. Eight litterfall traps (0.25 m2) were established within the 0.1-ha plots on September 24, 2014 to estimate annual productivity. Litterfall was collected monthly during the heaviest litterfall months (October, November, December) and quarterly the rest of the year from October 2014 until October 2017. Once collected, litterfall was dried for 48 hours at 60 C and then weighed to the nearest 0.01 g.

DOI:

10.6073/pasta/b42e90101074f6448bbb40c953c0cf9f

Key Words:

litter, productivity, tidal forest

LTER Core Area:

Primary Production

Research Themes:

Plant Ecology, Botany

Study Period:

24-Sep-2014 to 31-Oct-2017

Study Sites:

GCE11 -- Tidal Forest, Georgia, USA

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Data References:

PLT-GCED-1711 (Dendrometer band measurement data from the tidal forest plots), PLT-GCED-1711a (Species richness and basal data from the tidal forest plots)

Research Protocols:

GCE 11 Tidal Forest Plot Layout and Tagged Trees (Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER)

Downloads:

Data Table: PLT-GCED-1711b (Main data table for data set PLT-GCED-1711b, 136 records)

Access: Public (released 01-Feb-2018)

Metadata: Text (ESA FLED), XML (Ecological Metadata Language)

Data Formats: Spreadsheet (CSV) [6.49kb], Text File [5.26kb], MATLAB (GCE Toolbox) [162.30kb], MATLAB (Variables) [94.45kb], Text Report [17.52kb]

Column List:(hide)

Column	Name	Units	Type	Description
1	Site_Code	none	string	GCE site code
2	Trap	none	integer	One of the eight 0.25 square meter literfall traps studied
3	DateRemoved	MM/DD/YYYY	string	Date that the litterfall trap was emptied and the contents brought to the lab for drying
4	Flag_DateRemoved	none	string	QA/QC flags for Date that the litterfall trap was emptied and the contents brought to the lab for drying (flagging criteria, where "x" is DateRemoved: manual)
5	SampleDate	MM/DD/YYYY	string	Date the dried sample was weighed
6	Flag_SampleDate	none	string	QA/QC flags for Date the dried sample was weighed (flagging criteria, where "x" is SampleDate: manual)
7	Litterfall_Weight	grams	floating-point	Weight of the dried litterfall sample

Statistics:

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Citation:

Craft, Christopher B. 2017. Tidal forest litterfall collection in eight traps deployed at GCE 11 on the Altamaha River in Southeast Georgia from October 2014 to October 2017. Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Project, University of Georgia, Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/b42e90101074f6448bbb40c953c0cf9f

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