KBS/LTER Key
Soils were sampled from Kellogg Biological Station Long Term Ecological Station (KBS/LTER) in Hickory Corners MI.
All the six repetitions from T1, T2, T4, and T7 were sampled, the samples were composite samples; for DF and SF, the three repetitions were sampled and each of the five sub-repetitions were also sampled, making a total of 15 samples per each DF and SF repetition. The treatments sampled were:
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Key to treatment abbreviation at KBS/LTER used in this experiment | |
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DF |
Decidous forest |
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SF |
Sucessional field |
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T1 |
Conventional wheat/corn/soybean conventional till |
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T2 |
No-till wheat/corn/soybean no till |
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T4 |
Reduced-input organic wheat/corn/soybean + clover |
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T7 |
T7 Early successional community |
Aerial image of the KBS/LTER sites. Click the image for a larger version. Pictures taken from the KBS/LTER website.
"Support for this research was also provided by the NSF Long-Term Ecological Research Program at the Kellogg Biological Station and by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station."