destructive biomass sampling

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Method synopsis

Complete excavation of plants followed by separation into above-ground, below-ground, and reproductive components, with subsequent drying and weighing to determine biomass allocation patterns.

Synthesized from method descriptions across 5 papers using this protocol.

Procedure from a recent peer-reviewed implementation

Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community (2019), Plant Ecology. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.

1. Plant biomass collection and processing
   Clipped aboveground portion of each plant at ground level, placed in paper bags, and stored in freezer to halt decay. After all samples collected, dried at 65°C and weighed to nearest 0.001 g. Samples inadvertently collected with soil were removed from analyses, leaving 1008 samples.
   Quantities: 1008 final samples after removing 12 soil-contaminated samples, weighed to nearest 0.001 gDuration: Dried at 65°C for 96 hoursConditions: 65°C drying temperature for 96 hours
   Equipment: paper bags, freezer, drying oven, precision balance (0.001 g accuracy)

Typical Equipment

• excavation tools
• drying oven
• scale for weighing

Output Measurements

• total biomass
• above-ground biomass
• below-ground biomass
• reproductive biomass

Papers Using This Protocol (5)

Species Studied With This Protocol