For Experiment 2, the height and above-ground biomass of each
plant species under dung patches, and at 10 cm and 50 cm (control)
from the edge of each dung patch were measured 5 months
(late-September 2008), 17 months (year 2) and 29 months (year
3) after yak dung application, respectively. Due to the size of each
of the samples being too small, herbage samples from each of the
locations (on the dung patch, 10 cm and 50 cm from the dung
patches) were bulked across 5 randomly selected dung patches.
The herbage samples were oven dried at 65 C for 48 h to determine
dry matter production.