The Kenya Long-term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE) data archive

This data collection contains long-term data from the Kenya long-term exclosure experiment (KLEE). For a full site description, see Young et al. (1998). KLEE was established in 1995 and consists of three replicate blocks, each containing six 200 x 200 m treatment plots. The replicate blocks are 70 – 200 m apart. The experiment uses semi-permeable barriers to allow access by different combinations of cattle (‘C’), mesoherbivore wildlife 15 – 1000 kg (‘W’) and megaherbivores (‘M’). Each of the following six treatments is replicated across the three blocks: C, W, WC, MW, MWC and O. The capital letters indicate which herbivores are allowed access (e.g., ‘O’ allows no herbivores >15 kg, ‘W’ allows mesoherbivore wildlife >15 kg, but no cattle or megaherbivores, and ‘MWC’ allows megaherbivores, mesoherbivore wildlife and cattle). Long-term patterns of dung deposition in the KLEE plots indicate that 1) treatments are >90% effective at excluding targeted species, and 2) experimental fences do not deter wild herbivores from using the plots intended to be accessible to them.