The Echinacea Project Field Log http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/ Investigating ecology and evolution in fragmented prairie habitat since 1995. This field log documents our research projects, observations, and experiences. For more information, visit our website. en Copyright 2011 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:39:13 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss end of harvest Only about 13 heads left to harvest in the common garden experiment! I attached a pdf of listing all heads with no gbag info...

HarvestList2010FinalHarvest.pdf

Here's a map of unharvested head locations in the main experiment (there's one more head in the 99S garden).

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Click to enlarge.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2010/09/end-of-harvest.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2010/09/end-of-harvest.html Common Garden Experiments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:39:13 -0600 2010 Echinacea Common Garden Flowering Status This graph summarizes the First and Last Day of Flowering for Echinacea plants in the common garden. It looks like peak flowering was July 8, 2010.

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]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2010/07/2010-echinacea-common-garden-f.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2010/07/2010-echinacea-common-garden-f.html Common Garden Experiments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:39:57 -0600 Common Garden Measuring Protocol 2010 Today we will start measuring Echinacea in the Common Garden. Here is the link to the protocol: CGmeasureprotocol2010.htm

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2010/07/common-garden-measuring-protoc.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2010/07/common-garden-measuring-protoc.html Measuring Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:53:11 -0600 fl pla in CG Four plants are flowering in Andrea's garden this year. Andrea Southgate planted this experiment (aka inb2) in 2006 as part of her Master's research project. Andrea and Jennifer made a photo essay about their plantings that year. These are the first plants to flower in this experiment--about 4/1500 in their fifth growing season!

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2010/07/fl-pla-in-cg.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2010/07/fl-pla-in-cg.html Common Garden Experiments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:58:05 -0600 First week and half in Minnesota Hi all,
So I arrived up at the field site about a week and half ago to finish up monitoring flowering and help out with measuring and demo. Except for the recent death of my computer's hard drive it has been an excellent start to my field season. As you may know flowering was about a week earlier this year with many more flowering heads than expected. I would have estimated around 800 (max) flowering heads but we had over 1,100 flowering in the common garden. Last year was also a huge flowering year (over 1,300 heads) because it was a burn year. I am excited to now have two years of flowering data on a large of plants in the common garden.

We have spent a large part of the last week I have been here measuring both in the common garden and at the hegg lake common garden. The hegg lake common garden was established back in May of 2006 to as part of my graduate research. It is about 6 miles from the main common garden on Minnesota DNR land. It has around 4,000 plants planted on a 1m X 1m grid. Today we had the entire field crew out at hegg lake measuring for a total of 13 people and measured nearly half of the entire plot just today...it was great!

Besides the field work I have been keeping myself busy in rural Minnesota by fishing (Ian has promised that I will actually know how to fish by the end of the summer), playing poker, and going to a dirt track race. In the near future I plan on flogging all non-Echinacea related activities that can be done in rural Minnesota....however now I'm tired so it will have to wait until the weekend.
Night!
Jennifer

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2007/07/first-week-and-half-in-minneso.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2007/07/first-week-and-half-in-minneso.html Stories from the Field Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:53:24 -0600 So You're Telling Me They're Not Bees? Do You Know What Kind of Insect This Is?

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2007/07/so-youre-telling-me-theyre-not-1.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2007/07/so-youre-telling-me-theyre-not-1.html Stories from the Field Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:06:00 -0600 Common Garden Management Notes Here are some notes including completed management and what's left to do...

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2007/07/common-garden-management-notes.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2007/07/common-garden-management-notes.html Stories from the Field Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:51:40 -0600 Aerial photos of the common garden... ... are boring.

I took about 118 photos this afternoon and the > 100 straight-down shots are not interesting. Straight-down shot will provide good data when we have the ground markers and get enough shots in the right places. But for visual appeal & interest, the photos are boring.

Flying the kite was fun. It was cloudy with 10 - 15 mph winds from the N - NNW. It was a challenge to get the FF16 kite up--a 15 minute ordeal. But when it got up, it stayed. It was tiring to take it down and then it easily went right back up again. I took shots of the CG and then went to Staffanson.

Here's one of the few shots with the camera tilted. I like it.

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This is a view of part of the common garden from the West. The rows are 1 m apart and those things are tripods for the video cameras. The tripods weren't in use today and have plastics bags over them. Flags are more visible than the Echinacea plants. But If you click on the thumbnail, you'll be able to see some flowering plants in the larger image.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2007/07/aerial-photos-of-the-common-ga.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2007/07/aerial-photos-of-the-common-ga.html Common Garden Experiments Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:33:24 -0600 Ants in my pants (and by in my pants, I mean on my mind)
In general, the two main differences between '99 South and the main common garden (for damage assessment and herbivory) appears to be less damage in '99 South and more ants (and less ant diversity).

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2007/07/ants-in-my-pants-and-by-in-my.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wage0005/echinacea/2007/07/ants-in-my-pants-and-by-in-my.html Flowering Phenology Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:49:01 -0600