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:

Key to treatment abbreviation at KBS/LTER used in this experiment

DF

Decidous forest

SF

Sucessional field

T1

Conventional wheat/corn/soybean conventional till

T2

No-till wheat/corn/soybean no till

T4

Reduced-input organic wheat/corn/soybean + clover

T7

T7    Early successional community

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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."

 

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