Aboveground Rather Than Belowground Productivity Drives Variability in Miscanthus x giganteus Net Primary Productivity

Themes: Feedstock Production, Sustainability

Keywords: Biomass Analytics, Field Data, Miscanthus

Citation

Hartman, T., Studt, J.E., VanLoocke, A., McDaniel, M.S., Howe, A.C., Mitchell, C.A., Masters, M.D., DeLucia, E.H., Heaton, E.A. Aug. 21, 2025. Data from: “Aboveground Rather Than Belowground Productivity Drives Variability in Miscanthus x giganteus Net Primary Productivity.” University of Illinois. DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-7982423_V1.

Overview

Graphical abstract.

This dataset contains the data used for the publication “Aboveground rather than belowground productivity drives variability in Miscanthus x giganteus net primary productivity”. This dataset contains Miscanthus x giganteus biomass, carbon, and nitrogen tissue data for aboveground and belowground plant parts collected in 2021 for three different sites in Iowa with three different nitrogen application rates. Data at the Iowa sites were collected via biometric hand harvesting, belowground excavations, and soil coring both in-clump and beside-clump. Data were collected at two collection timepoints to calculate the contributions of belowground parts to Miscanthus x giganteus net primary productivity. This dataset also includes Miscanthus x giganteus and Switchgrass soil coring and excavation data collected in 2012 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Energy Farm.

Data

Illinois Data Bank: Includes Energy Farm core data and root rhizome core comparisons

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