Three lawn plots have been irrigated respectively with raw GW, treated GW and tap water as a reference.
The stated preference data came from a discrete choice experiment in which residents were asked to choose among several possible lawn plots — varying in size, turf variety, and aesthetic qualities.
Comparing the two summers, the 2014 drought only resulted in a decrease in Rs in the lawn plots (25%), which was driven by a reduction in the leaf area index and the fine root density.
Beyond the gate, a newly paved driveway curved through a wide lawn, past garden plots and trees hung with sap buckets, and up toward a simple two-story drab-green clapboard house.
She was from a Mormon family, and their home was a defunct fraternity house that the Mormon church had somehow come to own, a large, yellowish, three-storied cube of a thing, in the middle of a well-kept green lawn on a corner plot at the intersection of two relatively busy roads.
The partnership between Storm King and Governors Island is curious, yoking 500 acres of rolling, manicured hills to a much smaller plot of patchy lawns and decrepit buildings.
The humble suburban plot with plain lawns and a few bedding plants has been overtaken by sophisticated designs involving elegant furniture, exotic specimen plants and mature trees, all of which are much more valuable than their predecessors.
Continued intense grazing in the Macrotermes plots might have facilitated the colonization of these plots by the grazing tolerant lawn species making them competitively superior over the otherwise dominant bunch grasses.
However, we believe it is a probable explanation because other experimental studies have shown that lawn grass species can only colonize grassland plots under continuous intense grazing (O'Connor 1994; McNaughton and others 1997; Cromsigt and Olff 2008).
One plot may have a kick-about lawn for the kids – and the daisies and starlings.
