ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS

By E. Spehn, Andy Hector, J. Joshi, M. Scherer‐Lorenzen, Barbara C. Schmid, E. Bazeley-White, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Maria Conceição Caldeira, M. Diemer, P. Dimitrakopoulos and 27 more. 2005

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

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Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity (2014, background): “…the additional contributions from richness or diversity to ecosystem functions over time (Reich et al., 2012) and place (Godbold et al., 2011; Spehn et al., 2005) or the fact that, although certain species may appear redundant when a particular function is considered under one set of…”
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014, background): “…found that the same quantitative relationship could describe the dependence of productivity on plant species numbers across 8 sites in Europe (Figure 1e) and showed that productivity significantly increased with plant species richness at 7 of the 8 sites (Hector et al. 1999, Spehn et al. 2005).”
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The diversity–biomass–productivity relationships in grassland management and restoration (2007, background): “…of preexisting or manipulated biomass on diversity and productivity (Grace, 1999; Guo & Berry, 1998; Noy-Meir, 1975) and (2) experiments examining the influences of diversity (seeding, planting) on annual biomass production (i.e., productivity; e.g., Hooper et al., 2005; Spehn et al., 2005).”
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Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation (2008, background): “Journal compilation © 2008 British Ecological Society, Journal of Ecology , 96 , 314–322 2000; Wolters et al. 2000; Spehn et al. 2005; van Ruijven & Berendse 2005), but attribution of causation in such experiments has been open to alternative explanations (e.g. Huston 1997; Wardle 1999).”