SGS-LTER ecosystem stress area: long-term dataset following nutrient enrichment stress on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA, ARS study number 3

Milchunas, Daniel G.; Lauenroth, William K.

SGS-LTER ecosystem stress area: long-term dataset following nutrient enrichment stress on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA, ARS study number 3

dc.contributor.author	Milchunas, Daniel G.
dc.contributor.author	Lauenroth, William K.
dc.coverage.temporal	1974-2011
dc.date.accessioned	2007-01-03T04:25:32Z
dc.date.available	2007-01-03T04:25:32Z
dc.date.issued	1974-2011
dc.description	The Short Grass Steppe site encompasses a large portion of the Colorado Piedmont Section of the western Great Plains. The extent is defined as the boundaries of the Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER). The CPER has a single ownership and landuse (livestock grazing). The PNG is characterized by a mosaic of ownership and land use. Ownership includes federal, state or private and land use consists of livestock grazing or row-crops. There are NGO conservation groups that exert influence over the area, particularly on federal lands.
dc.description	Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL)
dc.description	Shortgrass Steppe-Long Term Ecological Research (SGS-LTER)
dc.description.abstract	This data package was produced by researchers working on the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research (SGS-LTER) Project, administered at Colorado State University. Long-term datasets and background information (proposals, reports, photographs, etc.) on the SGS-LTER project are contained in a comprehensive project collection within the Repository (http://hdl.handle.net/10217/100254). The data table and associated metadata document, which is generated in Ecological Metadata Language, may be available through other repositories serving the ecological research community and represent components of the larger SGS-LTER project collection. The effect of plant community structure on nutrient cycling is fundamental to our understanding of ecosystem function. We examined the importance of plant species and plant cover (i.e. plant covered microsites vs bare soil) on nutrient cycling in shortgrass steppe of northeastern Colorado. We tested the effects of both plant species and cover on soils in an area of undisturbed shortgrass steppe and an area that had undergone nitrogen and water additions from 1971 to 1974, resulting in significant shifts in plant species composition.
dc.description.sponsorship	NSF Grant Number DEB-1027319.
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10217/83317
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.25675/10217/83317
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Colorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.haspart	Burke, Ingrid (2013): SGS-LTER Ecosystem Stress Area - Aboveground Biomass: Interactions between individual plant species and soil nutrient status in shortgrass steppe on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA 1991. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/1b3c2ad30fbbd1d34e24ba18f531fb53
dc.relation.haspart	Burke, Ingrid (2013): SGS-LTER Ecosystem Stress Area - Belowground Biomass: Interactions between individual plant species and soil nutrient status in shortgrass steppe on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA 1991. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/d0863179435f68714e00a70b65624b87
dc.relation.haspart	Milchunas, Daniel (2013): SGS-LTER Ecosystem Stress Area - long-term density dataset following nutrient enrichment stress on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA 1975-2011, ARS Study Number 3. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/3cc8506bee83aa0fff545095d6fc4aca
dc.relation.haspart	Milchunas, Daniel (2013): SGS-LTER Ecosystem Stress Area - long-term point-frame (percent basal cover) dataset following nutrient enrichment stress on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA 1982-2011, ARS Study Number 3. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/5e160bc0a0a68a77b5ccead1b962285f
dc.relation.haspart	Burke, Indy (2014): SGS-LTER Ecosystem Stress Area - Soil Carbon & Nitrogen in shortgrass steppe on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA 1991, ARS Study Number 3. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/a3f5958c21f50ab7f7d29e67a30d30d3
dc.relation.haspart	Burke, Indy (2014): SGS-LTER Ecosystem Stress Area - Soil Carbon & Nitrogen in shortgrass steppe on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA 1991, ARS Study Number 3. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/79b1242db3f00c2e04023d9d19a0d1c9
dc.relation.haspart	Burke, Indy (2014): SGS-LTER Ecosystem Stress Area - Soil Carbon & Nitrogen in shortgrass steppe on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA 1991, ARS Study Number 3. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/541491d784c1d254400c22691da0c93c
dc.relation.ispartof	Research Data
dc.relation.isreferencedby	Vinton Mary Ann, The influence of individual plants on soil nutrient dynamics in the central grassland region of the United States. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Colorado State University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/82136
dc.relation.isreferencedby	Lauenroth, William K., Effects of water and nitrogen stresses on a shortgrass prairie ecosystem. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Colorado State University, 1973. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/85207
dc.relation.isreferencedby	Milchunas, D. G. and W. K. Lauenroth, W. K., Inertia in plant community structure: state changes after cessation of nutrient-enrichment stress. Ecological Applications 5, no. 2 (May 1995): 452-458. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/83310
dc.relation.isreferencedby	Vinton, Mary Ann and Ingrid C. Burke, Interactions between individual plant species and soil nutrient status in shortgrass steppe. Ecology 76, no. 4 (June 1995): 1116-1133. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/83311
dc.relation.references	Species list of plants. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/80451
dc.relation.references	Kaplan, Nicole, SGS-LTER GIS layer with detailed information on study sites on Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado, USA 2012 (dataset). http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87177
dc.rights	Data sets were provided by the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research (SGS-LTER) Program, a partnership between Colorado State University, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, and the U.S. Forest Service Pawnee National Grassland. Significant funding for these data was provided by the National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research program (NSF Grant Number DEB-1027319). The SGS-LTER project (1980-2014) was established as one of the first sites in the US LTER Network and has produce a rich legacy of digital materials including reports, proposals, images, and data packages. Data, products and other information produced from the SGS-LTER are curated as a collection within the Repository (http://hdl.handle.net/10217/100254). Materials can be accessed from the Institutional Digital Repository of Colorado State University or upon request by emailing ecodata_nrel@colostate.edu. All data are open for dissemination and re-use for any purpose, but you must attribute credit to the owner and cite use appropriately according to the LTER Data Access Policy (http://www.lternet.edu/policies/data-access).
dc.subject	inorganic nutrients
dc.subject	populations
dc.subject	carbon
dc.subject	aboveground net primary production
dc.subject	disturbance
dc.subject	cover
dc.subject	density
dc.subject	fertilization
dc.subject	nitrogen
dc.subject	biomass
dc.subject	plants
dc.subject	grasslands
dc.title	SGS-LTER ecosystem stress area: long-term dataset following nutrient enrichment stress on the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, Colorado, USA, ARS study number 3
dc.type	Dataset