Managing native grasslands – Data

• Introduction
• Background
• Study Design
• Data Collection
• Analysis
• Data

Download Excel Data File

Note that the data file only includes dry weight data from the second harvest. Although John’s primary interest was in the native flowers (species 3 to 14), he also recorded the dry weight of the three grasses (species 1, 2 and 15).

Definition of species and treatment variables in data file

Species Number	Species name	Common name
1	Austrodanthonia caespitosa	Wallaby grass
2	Themeda triandra	Kangaroo grass
3	Wahlenbergia stricta	Australian bluebell
4	Pycnosorus chrysanthes	Golden billy buttons
5	Leucochrysum albicans	Hoary sunray
6	Helichrysum scorpiodes	Button everlasting
7	Bulbine bulbosa	Native lily
8	Linum marginale	Native flax
9	Arthropodium strictum	Chocolate lily
10	Chrysocephalum apiculatum	Common everlasting yellow buttons
11	Calocephalus citreus	Lemon beauty heads
12	Craspedia variabilis	Common billy-buttons
13	Velleia paradoxa	Spur velleia
14	Podolepis jaceoides	Showy copper-wire daisy
15	Microlaena stipoides	Weeping grass

Combined Nutrient and Mowing treatment
1	Treatment A – high nutrients and annual mowing
2	Treatment B – high nutrients and biennial mowing
3	Treatment C – low nutrients and annual mowing
4	Treatment D – low nutrients and biennial mowing

Definition of remaining variables in data file

Row	Row in latin square
Column	Column in latin square
Weight	Dry weight in grams
Mowing	Mowing treatment: 1 = annual, 0 = biennial
Nutrient	Nutrient treatment: 1 = high nutrients, 0 = low nutrients
T1	Treatment (Species 1)
R1	Row in latin square (Species 1)
C1	Column in latin square (Species 1)
W1	Dry weight in grams of Species 1
M1	Mowing treatment (Species 1)
N1	Nutrient treatment (Species 1)
T2	Treatment (Species 2)
R2	Row in latin square (Species 2)
C2	Column in latin square (Species 2)
W2	Dry weight in grams of Species 2
M2	Mowing treatment (Species 2)
N2	Nutrient treatment (Species 2)
T8	Treatment (Species 8)
R8	Row in latin square (Species 8)
C8	Column in latin square (Species 8)
W8	Dry weight in grams of Species 8
M8	Mowing treatment (Species 8)
N8	Nutrient treatment (Species 8)
T15	Treatment (Species 15)
R15	Row in latin square (Species 15)
C15	Column in latin square (Species 15)
W15	Dry weight in grams of Species 15
M15	Mowing treatment (Species 15)
N15	Nutrient treatment (Species 15)