Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six-year grassland experiment

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3290-3302

  Marquard, Elisabeth ^a,b   Weigelt, Alexandra ^c   Temperton, Vicky M ^a,f   Roscher, Christiane ^a   Schumacher, Jens ^a,c   Buchmann, Nina ^d   Fischer, Markus ^e   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^c   Schmid, Bernhard ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community biomass; Complementarity; Ecosystem functioning; Functional groups; Jena experiment; Replacement series; Transgressive overyielding

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEMENTARITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYTOMASS; REPLACEMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GERMANY; JENA; THURINGIA;

POACEAE;

EID: 67449154754     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0069.1     Document Type: Article

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