This document contains graphs and tables taken from data collected from the Cedar Creek Juniper Mastication Project. QA/QC summaries on this have been broken down into three portions: “Woody Debris”, “Belt Transects” and “Plant composition”. All three are from the original data spreadsheet “CedarCreekMastication.xlxs” (file path: Rangeland responses to Fire > Woody plants > Juniper mastication > BLM > data)

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Sec 1: Course Woody Debris Summary

##           Min. 1st Qu. Median      Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
## SmallWood    7   16.25   25.0 31.636364   43.25   90
## MedWood      0    5.50    9.5 10.863636   13.75   36
## LrgWood      0    0.25    1.5  2.954545    4.00   15

A summarizing of woody debris (mean count, SE) taken from ALL combined Cedar Creek transects. This particular graph does not reflect sizes that are above 8 cm.

Histograms reflecting woody debris count distribution via size

Sec 2: Belt Transects

Using a bargraph to show plant intersects by species, we see the two dominant species along each transect are Rocky Mountain Juniper (Juniperus scopulorum) and snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)

Sec 3: Plant Composition

## # A tibble: 1,211 × 4
## # Groups:   group_trans [22]
##    value_cover value_code group_trans comparison    
##          <dbl> <chr>            <dbl> <chr>         
##  1           0 BAREG               42 BAREG: 0%     
##  2           0 CRUST               42 CRUST: 0%     
##  3           0 SDHERB              42 SDHERB: 0%    
##  4          38 HERBLIT             42 HERBLIT: 7.79%
##  5           3 SWODE               42 SWODE: 0.61%  
##  6          38 SYAL                42 SYAL: 7.79%   
##  7           3 PASM                42 PASM: 0.61%   
##  8           3 MUSP                42 MUSP: 0.61%   
##  9          16 CAREX               42 CAREX: 3.28%  
## 10           0 BAREG               42 BAREG: 0%     
## # ℹ 1,201 more rows

Quick summary of forage clips taken from quadrats of each transect. Histogram reflects the distribution for forage availability before mastication treatment.

##    date            transect       quadrat        GrossMass     
##  Mode:logical   Min.   :37.0   Min.   :1.000   Min.   : 0.000  
##  NA's:110       1st Qu.:42.0   1st Qu.:2.000   1st Qu.: 9.995  
##                 Median :47.5   Median :3.000   Median :11.595  
##                 Mean   :47.5   Mean   :3.009   Mean   :11.969  
##                 3rd Qu.:53.0   3rd Qu.:4.000   3rd Qu.:14.137  
##                 Max.   :58.0   Max.   :5.000   Max.   :26.990  
##    BagType         
##  Length:110        
##  Class :character  
##  Mode  :character  
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Outliers at low end (0’s) are not errors as there were quadrats without any plant life.