NPP Grassland: Kursk, Russia, 1954-1983


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Photograph: Clipping above-ground biomass at Kursk (click on the photo to view a series of images from this site).

Data Citation

Cite this data set as follows:

Gilmanov, T. G. 1996. NPP Grassland: Kursk, Russia, 1954-1983. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Description

Productivity of a meadow steppe was determined at the Kursk long-term ecological study site from 1954 to 1983. Measurement of monthly dynamics of above-ground plant biomass were made for each growing season (April-October), although the data on live and dead matter are more sparse and root data collection covers only some years in the 1970s and 1980s. Above-ground net primary production was estimated for many years, but the record is discontinuous. These data are part of a series of grassland data sets recently assembled and checked by Dr. Tagir Gilmanov. These data sets cover a wide range of climate and "continentality" (increasing maximum summer temperatures, decreasing precipitation) from the North-West to the South-East of the Commonwealth of Independent States (former U.S.S.R.).

The Kursk study site (51.67 N 36.5 E) is situated close to the city of Kursk in eastern Russia, 500 km south of Moscow. This kind of meadow is typically mowed annually.

A long time series of above-ground biomass data is available for each growing season from 1954 to 1983. There is also a discontinuous record of above-ground biomass, dead matter and litter from 1956 to 1983, as well as root data for 1972-1973 and 1981-1983.

Contact Information

Contact: Dr. T. G. Gilmanov
Center for Ecology and Productivity of Forests
Russian Academy of Sciences
69 Novocheryomushkinskaya
Moscow 117418
RUSSIA

c/o Department of Biology and Microbiology
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD 57007
U.S.A.

Telephone (U.S.A.): +1 (605) 688-4925/6141
Fax (Russia): +7 (095) 200-2216/2217 (Attn. Gilmanov 002840)
Fax (U.S.A.): +1 (605) 688-6677
E-mail: Tagir_Gilmanov@sdstate.edu

Click on the following linked phrase to view references and summaries for the Kursk site. More detailed information is available in the associated guide document.

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Click on the "Graphs" box to view a series of data plots for this site, e.g., biomass dynamics, climate data.