Overyielding in experimental grassland communities - irrespective of species pool or spatial scale

By C. Roscher, V. Temperton, M. Scherer‐Lorenzen, M. Schmitz, J. Schumacher, Barbara C. Schmid, Nina Buchmann, W. Weisser, E. Schulze. 2005

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

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Strong mixture effects among four species in fertilized agricultural grassland led to persistent and consistent transgressive overyielding (2009, background): “ch richness can enhance biomass production (Hector et al. 1999; Hooper & Dukes 2004; Roscher et al. 2005).”
Ecology of Central European Non-Forest Vegetation: Coastal to Alpine, Natural to Man-Made Habitats (2017, background): “Role of Species Richness Experiments with sown grass and forb mixtures have shown that species-rich stands have a higher productivity than species-poor stands (e.g. Tilman et al. 1996; Hector et al. 1999; Roscher et al. 2005; but see Kenkel et al. 2000).”
The diversity–biomass–productivity relationships in grassland management and restoration (2007, result): “…all experiments attempting to measure relationships between diversity and productivity on seeded plots have suffered from small plot size (but see Roscher et al., 2005) and time constraints (short-term), these studies do offer some significant insights on actual restorations of larger areas and…”
Biodiversity for multifunctional grasslands: equal productivity in high-diversity low-input and low-diversity high-input systems (2009, background): “Biodiversity experiments have repeatedly demonstrated that productivity is positively affected by species richness (Tilman et al., 1997a; Hector et al., 1999; Roscher et al., 2005) which is assumed to be driven by the complementarity (including facilitation) and the selection effect (also referred t”
Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China (2014, background): “…only grassland biodiversity experiment addressing plot sizes, biodiversity eﬀects did not diﬀer at all between grassland plots of 3 (cid:1) 5 9 3 (cid:1) 5 and 20 9 20 m, and the ecosystem function of plant productivity could be measured successfully on even smaller scales (Roscher et al. 2005).”
Potential of legume-based grassland–livestock systems in Europe: a review (2013, background): “…grass-lands have shown that biomass production was enhanced in species-rich swards, compared with the average monoculture yield (Spehn et al. , 2002; Hille Ris Lambers et al. , 2004; Hooper and Dukes, 2004; Hooper et al. , 2005; Roscher et al. , 2005; Marquard et al. , 2009; Mommer et al. , 2010).”
Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward. (2006, methodology): “…effects on ecosystem properties (functional effect types) or similar responses to environmental change (functional response types) has also been accomplished using multivariate methods (Chapin et al. 1996; Gitay & Noble 1997; Lavorel et al. 1997; Westoby & Leishman 1997; Roscher et al. 2005).”
Factors and processes affecting plant biodiversity in permanent grasslands. A review (2011, unknown): “The plant diversity in permanent grasslands potentially provides many benefits for ecosystem functioning and agricultural production: increased forage production (Fischer et al. 2008; Roscher et al. 2005; Tilman et al. 2001; Tilman et al. 1996), greater ecosystem stability in response to biotic and ”
No evidence of spatial root system segregation and elevated fine root biomass in multi-species temperate broad-leaved forests (2009, background): “in artificial grasslands (Hector et al. 1999; Roscher et al. 2005 ), when mixed cultures have a higher above-ground phytomass production than any monoculture of the constituting species.”
Diversity enhances community recovery, but not resistance, after drought (2010, background): “Several experiments have shown a positive relationship between plant diversity and above-ground biomass production (Hector et al. 1999; Tilman et al. 2001; Roscher et al. 2005; van Ruijven & Berendse 2005; Spehn et al. 2005).”
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).”
Plant species richness and functional groups have different effects on soil water content in a decade‐long grassland experiment (2018, methodology): “In all models (M1–M3), block was fitted first accounting at the same time for the gradient in soil texture, management (weeding and mowing), and data collection (Roscher et al., 2004, 2005) (Supporting Information Appendix 1: S1.”
Positive biodiversity–productivity relationship due to increased plant density (2009, background): “…effects has mainly focused on separating effects of niche partitioning or facilitation (complementarity effects) from disproportionate effects of single species (selection effects, Loreau & Hector 2001; Tilman et al. 2001; Roscher et al. 2005; Fargione et al. 2007; Marquard et al. 2009).”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions (2017, methodology): “In fact, aboveground biomass production significantly increased with increasing species richness in all years, in the main experiment (Roscher et al. 2005; Marquard, Weigelt, Temperton et al. 2009; Marquard et al. 2013), in the management and drought subplots (Weigelt et al.”
Soil and Plant Nitrogen Pools as Related to Plant Diversity in an Experimental Grassland (2007, background): “In our experiment, the biomass of mixtures was positively correlated with plant species richness ( Roscher et al., 2005 ).”
Using functional traits to predict grassland ecosystem change: a mathematical test of the response‐and‐effect trait approach (2009, background): “Biodiversity experiments have shown causal relationships between species number, ecosystem productivity (e.g. Tilman et al., 1997; Hector et al., 1999; Röscher et al., 2005) and C sequestration (Tilman et al., 2006).”