The Park Grass Experiment 1856–2006: its contribution to ecology

By J. Silvertown, P. Poulton, E. Johnston, G. Edwards, M. Heard, P. Biss. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “Started in 1956, it is the oldest ecological experiment in the world (Silvertown et al., 2006).”
Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity‐manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns? (2009, background): “Silvertown et al. 2006 ), one might expect their facilitative effects on other plants to be of much less importance.”
The Rengen Grassland Experiment: Effect of Soil Chemical Properties on Biomass Production, Plant Species Composition and Species Richness (2010, background): “Silvertown et al. (2006) concluded that “equilibrium” in plant species composition was achieved after 40 years of fertilizer application in the PGE.”
Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity (2013, background): “1C) (34) but instead that maintaining or augmenting diversity over time within a managed ecosystem might also maintain or augment productivity over time in that ecosystem (e.”
Contingency and determinism in evolution: Replaying life’s tape (2018, background): “Some of these studies take advantage of long-running ecological experiments, including the Park Grass Experiment, which was started in 1856 ( 98 , 99 ).”
Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities? (2009, background): “Such dynamics are documented in the Park Grass experiment begun in 1856: after exclusion of the weakest competitors, communities with the highest production of biomass are formed of a few functionally convergent species (Silvertown et al. 2006).”
The oldest monitoring site of the Alps revisited: accelerated increase in plant species richness on Piz Linard summit since 1835 (2013, background): “…periods that exceed a few decades (e.g. Goldberg and Turner 1986; Grabherr et al. 1994; Spiegelberger et al. 2006; Elmendorf et al. 2012), and even rarer are longtime series with several time steps that allow analysis of the dynamics of change both temporally and spatially (Silvertown et al. 2006).”
The Rengen Grassland Experiment: Plant species composition after 64 years of fertilizer application (2007, background): “The first scientific experiment aimed at assessing the effect of mineral and organic fertilizers was started by Lawes and Gilbert at Rothamsted Experimental Station (England) in 1856 (Park Grass Experiment, PGE), and this experiment is still in progress (Tilman, 1982; Silvertown et al., 2006).”
The state of plant population modelling in light of environmental change (2008, background): “However, such data sets are relatively rare and often difficult to decipher with regard to underlying mechanisms (e.g. Kahmen and Poschlod, 2004; Silvertown et al., 2006).”
Interacting effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on plant species diversity of 1500 grasslands in Germany differ between regions (2013, background): “…and plant diversity The generally lower vascular plant species richness of ertilized grasslands (Stevens, Dise, Mountford, & Gowing 004; Crawley et al. 2005; Silvertown et al. 2006; Kleijn et al. 009) differed between land use types (meadows, mown pasures, and pastures) and exploratories.”