The role of legumes as a component of biodiversity in a cross‐European study of grassland biomass nitrogen

By E. Spehn, M. Scherer‐Lorenzen, Barbara C. Schmid, Andy Hector, Maria Conceição Caldeira, P. Dimitrakopoulos, John A. Finn, A. Jumpponen, G. O'donnovan, J. Pereira and 3 more. 2002

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China (2014, background): “The latter would be expected if biodiversity eﬀects are related to functional diﬀerences among species, for example, regarding resource uptake, as has been shown for the combination of legumes and grasses in grassland systems (Spehn et al. 2002).”
ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS (2005, background): “…species acquiring nutrients from different portions of the available pool in space, time, or chemical form, thereby increasing, e.g., total nitrogen retention (Spehn et al. 2002) and de- February 2005 39ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF PLANT DIVERSITY creasing losses to leaching (Scherer-Lorenzen et al. 2003).”
Potential of legume-based grassland–livestock systems in Europe: a review (2013, background): “…between N 2 -ﬁxing legumes and non-N 2 -ﬁxing plant species often contributed signiﬁcantly more to mixing effects in biomass yield than the interactions between other functional groups (Spehn et al. , 2002; Li et al. , 2007; Temperton et al. , 2007; Kirwan et al. , 2009; Nyf-eler et al. , 2009).”
Soil and Plant Nitrogen Pools as Related to Plant Diversity in an Experimental Grassland (2007, background): “Little is known about the relationship between plant diversity and microbial activity (Wardle and Nicholson, 1996; Maire et al., 1999; Spehn et al., 2000; Gastine et al., 2003).”
Beyond gradual warming: extreme weather events alter flower phenology of European grassland and heath species (2009, background): “Species diversity on its own may enhance facilitation (Hacker & Gaines, 1997), and the presence of certain functional groups such as legumes is known to facilitate other species (Pugnaire & Luque, 2001; Spehn et al., 2002; Beierkuhnlein & Nesshoever, 2006).”
Designing resilient and sustainable grasslands for a drier future: Adaptive strategies, functional traits and biotic interactions (2013, background): “© 2013 Proceedings of the 22nd International Grassland Congress 110 A well-known facilitative mechanism among plants is the nutrient enrichment by legumes which has been a major functional mechanism addressed in grassland biodiversity-productivity experiments (Mulder et al. 2002; Spehn et al. 2002).”
Herbivore and pollinator responses to grassland management intensity along experimental changes in plant species richness (2012, background): “The presence of legumes can also enrich the nitrogen levels in the soil and thereby benefit other surrounding plant species (Spehn et al., 2002).”
Overyielding in grassland communities: testing the sampling effect hypothesis with replicated biodiversity experiments (2002, methodology): “For our analysis here, we use data on above-ground plant biomass production (plots were cut to 5 cm once or twice a year depending on site fertility) measured 2 years after establishment of the experimental communities (Hector et al. 1999; Loreau & Hector 2001; Spehn et al. 2002).”
Vegetation diversity, growth, quality and decomposition in managed grasslands (2004, background): “Legumes are keystone species in grassland communities because of their symbiotic associations with nitrogen-fixing Rhizobiuim bacteria (Spehn et al., 2002).”
Complementary nitrogen use among potentially dominant species in a biodiversity experiment varies between two years (2008, result): “In contrast to other studies (Mulder et al. 2002; Spehn et al. 2002; Lee et al. 2003; Temperton et al. 2007), the presence of legumes in our experiment did not affect nitrogen concentrations in plant material of non-fixing plants growing in plots with legumes.”
Legumes Functional Group Promotes Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Storage by Increasing Plant Diversity (2017, background): “With the presenting of N-fixing legumes, diversity can significantly effect on grassland productivity and soil C and N storages (Spehn et al., 2002; Fornara & Tilman, 2008).”
Species evenness and productivity in experimental plant communities (2004, background): “Legumes, which were dominant plants at a number of the sites, had a positive effect on productivity of other species by increasing nitrogen availability (Spehn et al. 2000, 2002, Mulder et al. 2002).”
Positive biodiversity–productivity relationship due to increased plant density (2009, result): “This result is in line with previous findings (Spehn et al. 2002; Hector et al. 2007) and may be explained by the improved nitrogen availability in the soil of legume-containing plots (Temperton et al. 2007).”
Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation (2008, background): “By using (15)N concentrations in plant tissues, further studies could determine the rate of N transfers from legumes to C4 grasses and their dependence on the species involved (Spehn et al. 2002).”