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Kent Farm
Kent Farm is located 7 miles east of Bloomington along Kent Road off of Highway 46 East. It is about 90 acres in size and consists of successional fields and more mature forest. Ellen Ketterson (Biology) and Rod Suthers (Medical Sciences) have facilities at Kent Farm. There is a rental house on the property that is typically occupied by graduate students in exchange for some maintenance and oversight. Kent Farm was the site of groundbreaking ecological work (on voles) by former IU zoologist Charles Krebs. This site has been used by IU faculty members Keith Clay, Ellen Ketterson, Vicky Meretsky, J.C. Randolph, and Don Whitehead--as well as a large number of graduate students and postdocs. Kent Farm is adjacent to Indiana DNR property, Lake Monroe, and Stillwater Marsh (an important waterfowl area).
Quick Facts
| Driving time from
campus: 20-30 min. |
Date Acquired by IU: March
23, 1966 |
| Nearby Public Land: IN DNR, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Forest Service, Stillwater Marsh. |
Current Land Use: Early, mid, and late successional forest. |
| Land Forms:
From Creek Bottom to Ridgetop |
| Vegetation:
A variety of early, mid, and late successional tree species can be found at Kent Farm. The property extends from a creek bottom to a ridge top allowing for an elevation shift in species composition. The elevation also allows chance to view wet site species and drier ridgetop and south slope species making Kent Farm a very diverse site within the preserve system. |
| Soils: Wetland to upland soil types |
| Access: The
Kent Farm site is not available to the public. |
Relevant Publications
- Clay, K., Shelton, A., and Winkle, C. 2008. Differential susceptibility of tree species to oviposition by periodical cicadas. Ecological Entomology (in press).
- Jawor, J.M., Young, R.,
and Ketterson, E.D. 2006. Females competing
to reproduce: dominance matters but testosterone may
not. Hormones and Behavior 49:362-368.
- Price, J., J. Bever and
K. Clay. 2004. Genotype,
environment, and genotype by environment interactions
determine quantitative resistance to leaf rust (Coleosporium
asterum) in Euthamia graminifolia (Asteraceae). New
Phytologist 162: 729-743.
- Cushing, B. S. and J. Michael Cawthorn. 1996. Species difference in
activity patterns during oestrus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74:
474-479.
- Vitousek, P. 1983.
Nitrogen turnover in a ragweed-dominated 1st year
old field in Southern Indiana. American Midland
Naturalist 110: 46-53.
- Tansey, M.R. and M.A. Jack. 1977, Growth of thermophilic and
thermotolerant fungi in soil in situ and in vitro. Mycologia,
69:563-578.
- Jack, Michele A. 1976. Studies on the ecology of thermophilic fungi
in sun-heated soils. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Plant Sciences,
Indiana University, Bloomington.
- Tansey, M.R. and M.A. Jack. 1976, Thermophilic fungi in sun-heated
soils, Mycologia, 68:1061-1075.
- Krebs, C. J., B. L. Keller
and R. H. Tamarin.
1969. Microtus population biology: Demographic changes
in fluctuating populations of M. ochrogaster and M.
pennsylvanicus in Southern Indiana. Ecology
50: 587-607.
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Keith Clay (right) and students looking down ravine at Kent Farm |
Closed gentian (Gentiana clausa) |
Class exploring young forest at Kent Farm |
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