Global Litter Invertebrate
Decomposition Experiment
Alberta, Canada
Site Manager
Dr. Dan L. Johnson
Department of Geography, Environmental Science Program
University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 3M4
Telephone: (+1) 403 329 2040
Fax: (+1) 403 329 2016
Site Description
Fescue grass west of Stavely, Alberta, Canada.
This fescue grassland research site is protected from grazing
livestock and some wildlife, by a fenced enclosure.
Site Location
Coordinates at Stavely are: 50 deg 11.37 min
N, 113 deg 54.20 min W
GPS 12U E292753 N5563523.
Site
Area
Located on a range research station at Onefour, Alberta.
Total facility area in semi-native short grass prairie: 17,000
ha (42,000 ac).
The GLIDE study was confined in a grazing enclosure (barbed
wire fence) 100 m X 100 m.
Site
Elevation
4585 feet.
Annual Rainfall
Site
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Annual Temperature
Soil
Native
Forest/Vegetation Types
Dominant grasses are Stipa comata (needle-and-thread
grass), Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama), Koeleria micrantha
(June grass), Agropyron spp., and some Poa and Carex. Some
shrubs such as Artemisia spp. (sagebrush), Elaeagnus commutata
(wolf willow, or silverberry) and Rosa acicularis (prickly
rose).
Principal Biome/Ecoregion
Dry mixedgrass grassland subregion. Mainly
low relief, flat grassland broken by low-flow stream valleys
or glacial deposits such as hummocky moraine, glaciofluvial
outwash and eroded lake deposits overlaying Cretaceous fine
sandstone and shale. Warm and dry climate (typically 250 mm
total annual precipitation) has resulted in sparse vegetation
cover short and medium-height grasses, and dark brown chernozems.
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