Diversity promotes temporal stability across levels of ecosystem organization in experimental grasslands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Proulx, Raphaël ^a   Wirth, Christian ^a,b   Voigt, Winfried ^c   Weigelt, Alexandra ^b,c   Roscher, Christiane ^a   Attinger, Sabine ^d   Baade, Jussi ^c   Barnard, Romain L ^e   Buchmann, Nina ^e   Buscot, François ^d   Eisenhauer, Nico ^f,g   Fischer, Markus ^h,i   Gleixner, Gerd ^a   Halle, Stefan ^c   Hildebrandt, Anke ^d   Kowalski, Esther ^c   Kuu, Annely ^c,j   Lange, Markus ^c   Milcu, Alex ^k   Niklaus, Pascal A ^e,l   Oelmann, Yvonne ^m   Rosenkranz, Stephan ^m   Sabais, Alexander ^f   Scherber, Christoph ^g   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^e,n   Scheu, Stefan ^g   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^a   Schumacher, Jens ^c   Schwichtenberg, Guido ^d   Soussana, Jean François ^o   Temperton, Vicky M ^a,p   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^c   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^h,m   Schmid, Bernhard ^l   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^j TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^k IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^m JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^o French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

^p FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ECOLOGY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; POACEAE;

EID: 78149459500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013382     Document Type: Article

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