In 2021, Team Echinacea established 378 random points across 27 prairie remnants in western Minnesota. After delineating the boundaries of remnant prairie patches of interest, we established between 6 and 24 random points within each patch (number of points roughly proportional to patch area). These points serve as sampling locations to help Team Echinacea characterize fire effects on the reproduction of plant species like Hesperostipa spartea and Andropogon gerardii. These points may also serve as infrastructure for future research projects.
- Start year: 2021
- Location: Roadsides, railroad rights of way, and nature preserves in and around Solem Township, MN
- Overlaps with: Hesperostipa fire and flowering in remnants, Andropogon fire and flowering in remnants
- Data collected: stakefile with 378 random point locations can be found: ~Dropbox/geospatialDataBackup2021/stakeFiles2021/randomPointsInRems/stakeRandomPointsInRems2021.csv
- Samples or specimens collected: NA
- Products: NA
You can read more about Random points in remnants, as well as links to prior flog entries about this experiment, on the background page for this experiment.
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