Extended untilled field margins with sown plants and bushes
- Local identifier
- Ekenäs
- Years operational
- 1990—
- Objective
- The objectives were to investigate the effects of the sowed vegetation on insects and other invertebrates in the soil and and in the vegetation and to monitor the development of the vegetation, particularly as regards the incidence of weeds and the survival of the meadow plants.
- Description
- The sowed vegetation is of four types: 1. Meadow plants and bushes (Prunus spinosa, Rosa canina, Sorbus aucuparia) 2. Meadow plants 3. Ley grasses with Trifolium pratense and Trifolium repens 4. Free development All plots are mowed in the autumn and the residues are removed.
- Data Access Statement
- Other
- Data Access Notes
- An application form for access to long-term field experiments or data from the experiments. Send the request to the experimental manager. https://www.slu.se/globalassets/ew/org/centrb/langliggande/gb-ltt-application-form-slu-20140820.docx
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- https://www.slu.se/globalassets/ew/org/centrb/langliggande/gb-guidelines_lte_slu_20140820.pdf
- Organization
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU Agricultural Long-Term Experimentsresearch organisation
- Person
- Associate professor Maria Viketoftexperiment managerSLUEcology
Site: Ekenäs
- Type
- farmer field
- Location
- FlenSweden
- Geographic location
- 58.952, 16.589
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Soil type
- cambisol
- Climatic type
- warm humid continental climate
Design period: (1990—)
- Design Type
- Replicated control design
- Design description
- Plot size 3 m x 10 m.
- Number of plots
- 16
- Number of replicates
- 4
- Crops
Crop Years grown - Factor
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- cropping system The field margins are sowed with four different vegetation types.