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Data from: Pyric herbivory in a temperate European wood-pasture system

https://doi.org/10.5878/zwe7-5w02
The data is used in the study "Pyric herbivory in a temperate European wood-pasture system", in which we introduced fire and herbivory in a full-factorial experiment in a temperate European wood-pasture system to test if pyric herbivory operates in ways comparable to grassy systems elsewhere in the world. The dataset consists of data from photo traps describing the time in seconds per one-minute video that cattle performed a certain behavior and in which part of a study plot they were located, data on fuel height (cm) and fire cover (m2 and %) in each study plot and year, and data on species and life form cover (%) in each study plot in the end of the experiment.
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Data files

  • Camera_traps_graze.tsv
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  • Camera_traps_visit.tsv
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  • Fuel_vs_Fire.tsv
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  • Raunkier.tsv
    5.63 KiB
  • Vegetation.tsv
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Documentation files

  • Readme.txt
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  • SLU.ess.2024.4.4.IÄ-1

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Data collection Physical measurements and tests

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Physical measurements and tests

Description of the mode of collection:

Measurement of fuel heights and fire cover. Fuel height was measured by using a folding ruler to measure the height (cm) of the majority (80%) of the dry grass swards in nine evenly distributed points. These nine measurements was then avareaged to a mean for each plot. Fire coverage was measured by a visual evaluation right after each burning took place and was measured in percent of the whole plot that was burned.

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2015-04-01 - 2020-04-30

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Data collection Field observation

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Field observation

Description of the mode of collection:

Inventory of plant species. In two randomly chosen points in each plot, we put out a 45x60 cm quadrant and noted all herbaceous species and their coverage in percentage of the quadrants. To evaluate differences in vegetation structure among treatments further, we classified the species found according to the following plant life-forms: hemicryptophytes, phanerophytes (large shrubs and trees) and chamaephytes (dwarf shrubs, such as Vaccinium spp.). Hemicryptophytes were further subdivided into graminoids, forbs and ferns.

Time period(s) for data collection:

2015-04-01 - 2020-09-30

Data collector:

Data collection Field observation

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Field observation

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Data collection using camera traps. The videos were analysed for both visitation (defined as the head located within the subplot boundaries) and grazing (defined as the head positioned close to the ground within the subplot boundaries). The total time in seconds spent by cattle on each activity (visitation and grazing) in each subplot (fire+herbivory and herbivory) per 1-minute video was recorded.

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2015-05-01 - 2015-04-30

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The study was carried out in a western Swedish landscape.

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Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

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Amsten, K., Cromsigt, J. P. G. M., Kuijper, D. P. J., Loberg, J. M., Jung, J., Strömgren, M., Niklasson, M., & Churski, M. (2024). Pyric herbivory in a temperate European wood-pasture system. Journal of Applied Ecology, 00, 1–14.

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