Annual primary productivity in control plots at a Spartina patens-dominated salt marsh at Law's Point, Rowley River, Plum Island Ecosystem LTER, MA.

Summary

Short name:

LTE-MP-LPC-productivitymeans

Abstract:

Annual productivity is determined from aboveground biomass data collected destructively from control plots during the growing season at a Spartina patens-dominated salt marsh on the Rowley River within the Plum Island Ecosystem (PIE) LTER site, MA.

Data set ID:

131

EML revision ID:

Published on EDI/LTER Data Portal

Citation Suggestion:

Morris, J., Sundberg, K., 2020. Annual primary productivity in control plots at a Spartina patens-dominated salt marsh at Law's Point, Rowley River, Plum Island Ecosystem LTER, MA. Environmental Data Initiative. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/45ba7ce4fe295d166a949c703ec84a9d

Core Areas:

Primary Production

Keywords:

Dates

Date Range:

Tuesday, May 1, 2001 to Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Publication Date:

Monday, October 5, 2020

People

Owner/Creator:

Jim Morris

Karen Sundberg

Plum Island Ecosystems LTER

Contact:

Plum Island Ecosystems LTER

Project:

Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (PIE LTER IV, 2016-2022)

Downloads

Data sources:

LTE-MP-LPC-productivitymeans_csv

LTE-MP-LPC-productivitymeans_xls

Methodology

Purpose:

Methods:

General:
This data set is part of an on-going LTER project at the Plum Island Ecosystem (PIE) site. The sampling location is in a Spartina patens-dominated marsh at Law's Point between the Rowley River and West Creek in Rowley MA.

Sampling Description:
The biomass-estimation method is destructive. Three control plots were permanently established in the marsh. For sampling, a 10x10 cm quadrat is placed randomly in each plot, and all plants are clipped within 1 cm of the sediment surface and placed into a labelled plastic bag for transport to the lab. Live and dead plants are separated, and live plants are separated by species. Plants are placed into labelled paper bags, dried at 60C and weighed. Sampling occurs approximately monthly from May to October.

Permanent census plots were established in August 2000. The first complete year of data available for annual productiviy is 2001. In May 2006 the plots were moved due to potential contamination from nearby fertilized plots.

Data processing:
All data are entered into an Excel spreadsheet. Annual productivity is determined using a variation of the Smalley method and SAS (SAS System for Windows; release 8.02; SAS Institute, Inc; Cary, NC), and is based on standing live+dead biomass at peak live biomass for the year of interest. Data are reported as the mean annual productivity and standard error of the 3 plots (n=3).

Elevation: LTE-MP-LPP, ~ 1.4 meters NAVD88

Maintenance:

Collections occur approximately every month from May through October.
Database is updated once annually, usually in the winter.
Study and data collection are ongoing as of Dec 2019.
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