Positive biodiversity–productivity relationship due to increased plant density

By Elisabeth Marquard, A. Weigelt, C. Roscher, Marlén Gubsch, Annett Lipowsky, Barbara C. Schmid. 2009

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

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Citations in the corpus

Below‐ground complementarity effects in a grassland biodiversity experiment are related to deep‐rooting species (2018, background): “One of the most studied ecosystem functions is plant productivity, which is known to increase with plant SR both above- and below- ground (Marquard et al., 2009; Tilman et al., 2001; van Ruijven & Berendse, 2009).”
Identifying population‐ and community‐level mechanisms of diversity–stability relationships in experimental grasslands (2011, background): “Although productivity at the community level increases with species richness in the majority of biodiversity experiments, including the ‘Jena Experiment’, effects of species richness on biomass production of individual species are highly variable (Hooper et al. 2005; Marquard et al. 2009a).”
Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China (2014, background): “However, as with all observational studies, it is not clear whether these correlations reﬂect causal relationships, in which direction causality works, or whether additional ‘third’ variables are involved, for example, stand age or tree density (Marquard et al. 2009a).”
Plant communities as drivers of soil respiration: pathways, mechanisms, and significance for global change (2011, background): “A large number of experimental studies have used synthetic species assemblages varying in species richness to show that some ecosystem processes, notably productivity, increase with richness (Hooper et al., 2005; Marquard et al., 2009), but reach an asymptote at richness levels that are lower than m”
The relationship between tree species richness, canopy space exploration and productivity in a temperate broad-leaf mixed forest (2013, background): “taxonomic and/or functional group diversity, and shoot density has been shown (Marquard et al., 2009) implying a more complete canopy space filling by shoots.”