Evenness drives consistent diversity effects in intensive grassland systems across 28 European sites

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 530-539

  Kirwan, L ^a   Luscher A ^b   Sebastia M T ^c   Finn, J A ^d   Collins, R P ^e   Porqueddu, C ^f   Helgadottir, A ^g   Baadshaug, O H ^h   Brophy, C ^a   Coran, C ⁱ   Dalmannsdottir S ^g   Delgado, I ^j   Elgersma, A ^k   Fothergill, M ^e   Frankow Lindberg, B E ^h   Golinski, P ^l   Grieu, P ^m   Gustavsson, A M ⁿ   Hoglind M ^o   Huguenin Elie, O ^b   Iliadis, C ^p   Jorgensen M ^q   Kadziuliene, Z ^r   Karyotis, T ^p   Lunnan, T ^s   Malengier, M ^t   Maltoni, S ^f   Meyer, V ^u   Nyfeler, D ^b   Nykanen Kurki, P ^v   Parente, J ^w   Smit, H J ^k   Thumm, U ^x   Connolly, J ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^d TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^h Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences ^*  (Sweden)

ⁱ SAASD   (Italy)

^j Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón IA2   (Spain)

^k WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^l POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^m CEMAGREF   (France)

ⁿ SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^o Saerheim Research Centre   (Norway)

^p INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^q NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^r INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE   (Lithuania)

^s Planteforsk Løken   (Norway)

^t Centrum voor Landbouwkundig Onderzoek Gent CLO / Centre de Recherches Agronomiques Gand   (Belgium)

^u DLF Trifolium AS   (Denmark)

^v FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^w ERSA   (Italy)

^x UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Agricultural grassland; Ecosystem functioning; Evenness; Intensive grasslands; Inter specific interactions; Multi site experiment; Relative abundance; Simplex design; Species identity; Transgressive overyielding

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD PRODUCTION; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GRASSLAND; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MONOCULTURE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

POACEAE;

EID: 34247197228     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01225.x     Document Type: Article

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