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Bayles Road
The Bayles Road addition is located about 3 miles north of town off of Walnut Street, just past Cascades Park on the way toward State Road 37 North and just west of Taylor's par 3 golf course and the Thompson furniture store. The site is approximately 33 acres in size and historically was used for research in corn genetics by IU Biology professors Marcus Rhoades, Drew Schwartz, and others. The property is mostly agricultural land and open fields, but there are also smaller areas of forest, wetlands, and aquatic habitats. Presently it is used intensively for common garden type experiments (Clay lab, Reynolds lab, Bever lab) and several laboratory courses. The site has also been used by Butch Brodie, Ellen Ketterson, and Vicky Meretsky (SPEA), a variety of graduate students, and the Indiana University Nursery. It has also been used by faculty from other universities (e.g., Miami University, Rice University). Jennifer Rudgers, a former postdoc at IU who joined the faculty at Rice University, received 5 years of NSF funding for her project at Bayles Road. The open fields have an irrigation system, but there is no power or buildings at the site, except for a very small storage shed.
Quick Facts
| Driving time from
campus: 10-15 min. |
Date Acquired by IU: March
8, 1965 |
| Nearby Public Land: Lake
Griffy preserves, both City of Bloomington and IU. |
Current Land Use: Vegetative
experiments with grasses, sedges, and early succession
trees. Ruckleshaus dedicated carbon sequestration
grove and prairie. |
| Land Forms:
Bottomlands of Griffy Creek. |
| Vegetation:
Fence rows with trees (Black Walnut, Tulip Poplar, Black Cherry, and Boxelder). Old agricultural fields with grasses, sedges, and forbs. |
| Soils: Haymond, Stendal, Wakeland, and Wilbur soil series. |
| Access: The
Bayles Road site is not available to the public. |
Relevant Publications
- Flory, S.L. 2008. Management of Microstegium vimineum invasions and recovery of resident plant communities. In press, Restoration Ecology.
- Civitello, D.J., S.L. Flory, and K. Clay. 2008. Exotic grass invasion reduces tick-borne disease risk. Journal of Medical Entomology 45:867-872.
- Flory, S.L. and W.B. Mattingly. 2008. Response of host plants to periodical cicada oviposition damage. Oecologia 156:649-656.
- Finkes, L. K., Rudgers, J. A., Cady, A. B.,
Clay, K. and J. C. Mulroy. 2006. A
fungal mutualist affects the composition of spiders in an old field.
Ecology Letters 9: 347-356.
- Clay, K., Holah, J. and
J. A. Rudgers. 2005. Herbivores cause a rapid
increase in hereditary symbiosis and alter plant community
composition. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science USA 102:12465-12470.
- Lemons, A., Clay, K. and
J. A. Rudgers. 2005. Connecting plant-microbial
interactions above-and belowground: a fungal endophyte
affects decomposition. Oecologia 145:595-604.
- Orr, S. P., Rudgers, J.
A. and K. Clay. 2005. Invasive plants can
inhibit native tree seedlings: Testing the novel weapons
hypothesis. Plant Ecology 181: 153-165.
- Rajaniemi, T. K. and H.
L. Reynolds. 2004.
Root foraging for patchy resources in eight herbaceous
plant species. Oecologia 141:519-525.
- Rudgers, J. A., Koslow,
J.M. and K. Clay. 2004. Endophytic fungi
alter relationships between diversity and ecosystem
processes. Ecology Letters 7: 42-51.
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