Lusk0000a

Report for study: Lusk0000a

Contact Information

Data contributor: Christopher H. Lusk

Email: clusk@waikato.ac.nz

Address:

• School of Science, University of Waikato, Private 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand

Data source

Citation: Lusk CH (Unpublished).

DOI:

Abstract:

Overview of data provided

The dataset includes records for 23 individuals from 1 species belonging to 1 family(ies), presenting 1 functional type(s), growing in 1 condition(s) within 1 major type(s) of habitat, with data included for the following variables:

Variable	Label	Units	N	Min	Median	Max
latitude	Latitude	deg	23	-37	-37	-37
longitude	Longitude	deg	23	175	175	175
a.lf	Leaf area	m2	23	0.00029	0.0012	0.0056
a.stba	Stem area at base	m2	23	0.000000071	0.00000079	0.000037
a.cp	Crown area	m2	23	0.00038	0.0023	0.019
a.cs	Crown surface area	m2	23	0.0018	0.0083	0.047
h.t	Height	m	23	0.034	0.11	0.34
h.c	Height to crown base	m	23	0	0.025	0.27
d.ba	Basal diameter	m	23	0.0003	0.001	0.0069
d.cr	Crown width	m	23	0.022	0.054	0.16
c.d	Crown depth	m	23	0.03	0.066	0.16
m.lf	Leaf mass	kg	23	0.00001	0.00005	0.00028
m.st	Total stem mass	kg	23	0.000004	0.000035	0.00062
m.so	Aboveground mass	kg	23	0.000014	0.000079	0.0009
m.rt	Total root mass	kg	23	0.000005	0.000031	0.00067
m.to	Total mass	kg	23	0.000022	0.00011	0.0016
a.ilf	Area of individual leaf	m2	23	0.0000083	0.000017	0.000027

And locally within the country:

The sites sampled are:

Location	Longitude	Latitude	Vegetation
Miranda Scenic Reserve	175.3	-37.25	Temperate rainforest

The growing conditions of sampled plants was:

Location	growingCondition
Miranda Scenic Reserve	field wild

Species sampled

Species	Family	Pft
Kunzea ericoides	Myrtaceae	evergreen angiosperm

Methods used

Sampling strategy: We obtained 200 - 350 mm tall seedlings from Miranda Scenic Reserve (NZ) from second-growth stands and margins of warm-temperate rainforest. Crown architecture of each seedling was recorded using a using a FASTRAK 3D-digitizer (Polhemus, Colchester, VT, USA), in conjunction with the software package FLORADIG (CSIRO Entomology, Brisbane, Australia).

Leaf area: The total foliage area of each plant was measured using a LI-3100 leaf Area Meter

Stem cross sectional area: Basal stem diameter (immediately above any root flanges) was measured on two orthogonal axis, using electronic callipers.

Height: Height was measured as the length of the longest stem, from the ground to the apex.

Crown area: Crown area was computed from the plant architecture data obtained using the 3D digitizer.

Biomass: Plants were divided into stem, leaf and root fractions and then dried to a constant weight. Petioles of simple leaves were included in total leaf mass.

Growth environment: second-growth stands and margins of warm-temperate rainforest.

Year collected: 2006

Plots of data

This is how the study Lusk0000a fits in the entire dataset (grey). each colour represents a species. A legend of species names with colours is included at the end for reports with 1 < n < 20 species.