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Changes in the abundance of grassland species in monocultures versus mixtures and their relation to biodiversity effects.
PloS one , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24098704
No evidence of complementary water use along a plant species richness gradient in temperate experimental grasslands.
PloS one , 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25587998
Flooding disturbances increase resource availability and productivity but reduce stability in diverse plant communities.
Nature communications Jan, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25600177
Effects of plant diversity, functional group composition, and fertilization on soil microbial properties in experimental grassland.
PloS one , 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25938580
Plant diversity shapes microbe-rhizosphere effects on P mobilisation from organic matter in soil.
Ecology letters Dec, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26415778
Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes.
Nature Oct, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26466564
Predicting stochastic community dynamics in grasslands under the assumption of competitive symmetry.
Journal of theoretical biology Jun, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27060673
Plant species richness and functional traits affect community stability after a flood event.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences May, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27114578
Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 05, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27114579
Plant diversity and functional groups affect Si and Ca pools in aboveground biomass of grassland systems.
Oecologia Sep, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27164912
Plant diversity and root traits benefit physical properties key to soil function in grasslands.
Ecology letters Sep, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27459206
Plants are less negatively affected by flooding when growing in species-rich plant communities.
The New phytologist Jan, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 27717024
Effect of plant diversity on the diversity of soil organic compounds.
PloS one , 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28166250
Plant diversity maintains long-term ecosystem productivity under frequent drought by increasing short-term variation.
Ecology Nov, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28869781
Root chemistry and soil fauna, but not soil abiotic conditions explain the effects of plant diversity on root decomposition.
Oecologia Nov, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28929254
Biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions.
Nature ecology & evolution Jan, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29180710
Origin context of trait data matters for predictions of community performance in a grassland biodiversity experiment.
Ecology May, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29570784
Functional groups differ in trait means, but not in trait plasticity to species richness in local grassland communities.
Ecology Oct, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29989166
Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity-stability relationship.
Nature ecology & evolution Oct, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30150740
Mycorrhiza in tree diversity-ecosystem function relationships: conceptual framework and experimental implementation.
Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) May, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30323959
The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences.
Trends in ecology & evolution Feb, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30527960
Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems.
Nature communications Mar, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30926809
Fine root lignin content is well predictable with near-infrared spectroscopy.
Scientific reports Apr, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31015553
Limited evidence for spatial resource partitioning across temperate grassland biodiversity experiments.
Ecology Jan, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 31560129
A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research.
Advances in ecological research , 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31908360
Plant diversity effects on forage quality, yield and revenues of semi-natural grasslands.
Nature communications Feb, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32034149
Leaf area and pubescence drive sedimentation on leaf surfaces during flooding.
Oecologia Jul, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32419047
Plant diversity influenced gross nitrogen mineralization, microbial ammonium consumption and gross inorganic N immobilization in a grassland experiment.
Oecologia Jul, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32737568
The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic.
Nature ecology & evolution Nov, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32839545
The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants.
Science advances Jul, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32937432
msGBS: A new high-throughput approach to quantify the relative species abundance in root samples of multispecies plant communities.
Molecular ecology resources May, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33058506
LCVP, The Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants, a new taxonomic reference list for all known vascular plants.
Scientific data Nov, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33243996
Plant structural diversity alters sediment retention on and underneath herbaceous vegetation in a flume experiment.
PloS one , 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33735182
Reply to: "Results from a biodiversity experiment fail to represent economic performance of semi-natural grasslands".
Nature communications Apr, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33837190
Incorporation of mineral nitrogen into the soil food web as affected by plant community composition.
Ecology and evolution May, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33976811
Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs.
Nature ecology & evolution Aug, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34112996
An integrated framework of plant form and function: the belowground perspective.
The New phytologist Oct, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34197626
The iDiv Ecotron-A flexible research platform for multitrophic biodiversity research.
Ecology and evolution Nov, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34765169
Ecosystem effects of environmental extremes.
Science (New York, N.Y.) Dec, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34914523
Drought-exposure history increases complementarity between plant species in response to a subsequent drought.
Nature communications Jun, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35680926
Biodiversity-stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment.
Nature communications Dec, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 36517483
The structure of root-associated fungal communities is related to the long-term effects of plant diversity on productivity.
Molecular ecology Jul, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37081579
The importance of trait selection in ecology.
Nature Jun, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37380696
Biomass removal promotes plant diversity after short-term de-intensification of managed grasslands.
PloS one , 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37384725
Putting conservation gardening into practice.
Scientific reports Aug, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37652902
Responses of rhizosphere fungi to the root economics space in grassland monocultures of different age.
The New phytologist Dec, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37691273
Ecosystem consequences of invertebrate decline.
Current biology : CB Oct, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37757832
Artificial light at night decreases plant diversity and performance in experimental grassland communities.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences Dec, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37899022
Relationships between species richness and biomass production are context dependent in grasslands differing in land-use and seed addition.
Scientific reports Nov, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37952061
Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities.
Ecology letters Jan, 2025 | Pubmed ID: 39737799
Tree growth is better explained by absorptive fine root traits than by transport fine root traits.
Communications biology Feb, 2025 | Pubmed ID: 40011709
Plant species richness promotes the decoupling of leaf and root defence traits while species-specific responses in physical and chemical defences are rare.
The New phytologist Apr, 2025 | Pubmed ID: 40013369
Anna-Maria Madaj1,2,
Yuanyuan Huang1,2,
Anne Ebeling3,
Lisa Ertel1,2,
Alban Gebler1,2,
Gerd Gleixner1,4,5,
Jes Hines1,2,
Christiane Roscher1,6,
Alexandra Weigelt1,2,
Cynthia Albracht7,8,9,
Angelos Amyntas1,10,
Leonardo Bassi1,2,
Ana Elizabeth Bonato Asato1,2,
Michael Bonkowski11,12,
Maximilian Bröcher3,
François Buscot1,8,
Francesca De Giorgi1,6,
Yuri Pinheiro Alves de Souza13,14,
Van Cong Doan1,10,
Walter Durka1,15,
Anna Heintz-Buschart7,
Justus Hennecke1,2,
Markus Lange4,
Pamela Medina-van Berkum16,
Sebastian Tobias Meyer14,
Sören Krawczyk1,2,
Akanksha Rai4,
Thomas Reitz1,8,
Christian Ristok1,2,
Stefan Scheu17,18,
Michael Schloter13,14,
Stefanie Schulz13,
Marcel Dominik Solbach11,
Sybille Barbara Unsicker16,19,
Nico Eisenhauer1,2
1, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig,
2Institute of Biology, Leipzig University,
3Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
4, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry,
5Institute for Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
6Department Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ),
7Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam,
8Department Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ),
9Institute Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology, Julius Kühn-Institute,
10Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
11Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne,
12Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne,
13Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich,
14School of Life Science, Technical University Munich - TUM,
15Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ),
16Department of Biochemistry, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology,
17JFB Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen,
18Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use, University of Göttingen,
19Botanical Institute, Plant-Environment-Interactions Group, Kiel University
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