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Top down vs bottom up control on understory plant community structure in the northern Boreal Forest Turkington, Roy; McLaren, Jennie R

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The dataset involved in this project is a compilation of nearly 20 years of data, on an experiment designed to tease apart bottom up vs. top down controls on understory plants in the Yukon. For the first decade of a factorial experiment, fertilizer was added to half the plots, and snowshoe hare herbivory was excluded. After 10 years, each plot was permanently divided in half where treatment was stopped, so researchers could measure recovery of the communities. The data consists of species richness and percent cover data for nearly 80 species of understory plants at two sites, each with 16 plots.

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Title	Top down vs bottom up control on understory plant community structure in the northern Boreal Forest
Creator	Turkington, Roy; McLaren, Jennie R
Contributor	Emry, Sandra; Emry, Sandra
Date Issued	2024-06-06
Description	The dataset involved in this project is a compilation of nearly 20 years of data, on an experiment designed to tease apart bottom up vs. top down controls on understory plants in the Yukon. For the first decade of a factorial experiment, fertilizer was added to half the plots, and snowshoe hare herbivory was excluded. After 10 years, each plot was permanently divided in half where treatment was stopped, so researchers could measure recovery of the communities. The data consists of species richness and percent cover data for nearly 80 species of understory plants at two sites, each with 16 plots.
Subject	Earth and Environmental Sciences; herbivory, boreal forest, bottom-up, top-down, nutrient addition, species diversity
Geographic Location	Yukon; Kluane National Park
Type	Dataset
Language	English
Date Available	2024-05-31
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC BY-SA 4.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0443844
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/PPTJI3
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/PPTJI3
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Country	Canada
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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