Functionally and phylogenetically diverse plant communities key to soil biota

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1878-1885

  Milcu, Alexandru ^a,b   Allan, Eric ^c   Roscher, Christiane ^d,e   Jenkins, Tania ^f   Meyer, Sebastian T ^g   Flynn, Dan ^h   Bessler, Holger ⁱ   Buscot, François ^d,j   Engels, Christof ⁱ   Gubsch, Marlén ^k   Kö Nig, Stephan ^d   Lipowsky, Annett ^h   Loranger, Jessy ^l   Renker, Carsten ^j   Scherber, Christoph ^m   Schmid, Bernhard ^h   Thébault, Elisa ⁿ   Wubet, Tesfaye ^d   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^g   Scheu, Stefan ^m   Eisenhauer, Nico ^o   more..

^a CNRS   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^k ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^l CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

ⁿ UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^o FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Above belowground interactions; Biodiversity; Functional diversity; Functional traits; Jena Experiment; Phylogenetic diversity; Plant species richness; Soil fauna

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL BIOTA; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

EID: 84881253449     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1936.1     Document Type: Article

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