Cattle Grazing Impacts on Milkweed Species in North Dakota Rangelands

A 166.3 KB dataset for a publication on the impacts of seasonal timing, milkweed species, and grazing strategy on milkweed grazed by cattle. The project data includes columns for treatment, date of data collection, transect number, and whether a milkweed stem was bitten by cattle, with species denoted for each observation. Author Ellyssa Johnson published the dataset on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling the probability of milkweed stem grazing based on treatment and seasonal timing.
• Comparing grazing impacts between Asclepias syriaca/speciosa and Asclepias ovafolia species.
• Analyzing the effect of different grazing strategies on milkweed survival across transects.

Strengths

• Dataset is structured for a specific publication, suggesting a clear research context.
• Includes species-level identification (Asclepias syriaca/speciosa and Asclepias ovafolia) for each observation.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (166.3 KB), indicating a limited scope of observations.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Field observations collected via transects, likely as part of a controlled study.

Time Range

Specific dates of data collection are present in the dataset but not specified in metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 18:52:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North Dakota rangelands.