Above-ground resource use increases with plant species richness in experimental grassland ecosystems

By Spehn E. M., J. J, Schmid B., D. M., Körner C.. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Relationships between productivity, number of shoots and number of species in bryophytes and vascular plants (2001, background): “Although biomass is a rather crude descriptor of the structure of the vascular plant layer (Spehn et al. 2000) and thus of the environment experienced by bryophytes (Watson 1960; Sveinbjörnsson & Oechel 1992), the negative relationship is important for bryophyte conservation: stands of low vascular…”
Overyielding among plant functional groups in a long‐term experiment (2003, background): “…selection effects are common, as they seem to be, strong facilitative interactions (as with N-fixers) may be necessary to generate consistent transgressive overyielding and overall positive effects of diversity on productivity in many ecosystems (e.g. Spehn et al. 2000; Tilman et al. 2001).”
Overyielding in grassland communities: testing the sampling effect hypothesis with replicated biodiversity experiments (2002, background): “…field sites in the UK at Silwood Park (Hector et al. 2000a; Hector et al. 2001) and Sheffield, and at single localities in Germany (SchererLorenzen 1999), Ireland, Greece (Troumbis et al. 2000), Portugal (Caldeira et al. 2001), Sweden (Mulder et al. 1999) and Switzerland (Spehn et al. 2000).”
Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward. (2006, background): “More recent experiments using plants may provide stronger evidence of the importance of functional diversity (Symstad et al. 1998; Spehn et al. 2000; Reich et al. 2001; Tilman et al. 2001; Dimitrakopoulos & Schmid 2004; Hooper & Dukes 2004).”
Plant species richness and functional groups have different effects on soil water content in a decade‐long grassland experiment (2018, background): “…that the evaporation to transpiration ratio decreased with increasing plant species richness (Milcu et al., 2016), thus potentially enhancing ecosystem water-use efficiency (Milcu et al., 2014) and plant productivity (De Boeck et al., 2006; Hildebrandt & Eltahir, 2007; Spehn et al., 2000).”
No evidence of spatial root system segregation and elevated fine root biomass in multi-species temperate broad-leaved forests (2009, background): “ Schmid and Kazda 2002; Bennett et al. 2002; Bolte and Villanueva 2006), irrespective of elevated or reduced root biomasses in mixtures.”
Relationship between plant species diversity and soil microbial functional diversity along a longitudinal gradient in temperate grasslands of Hulunbeir, Inner Mongolia, China (2008, background): “Our data supported that both plant species richness and aboveground plant biomass were positively and linearly correlated with SMBC. Previous studies also showed that plant species richness had a positive effect on soil microbial biomass (Spehn et al. 2000a; Stephan et al. 2000).”
The Restoration of Plant–Pollinator Interactions in Hay Meadows (2005, background): “Although several studies have found that structure influences function (e.g., Tilman et al. 1996; Cadenasso & Pickett 2000; Spehn et al. 2000), some processes relating to system sustainability may be independent of the structural variation in healthy communities.”
Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity (2018, background): “This is at odds with plant species richness often being positively related to productivity in BEF experiments (Spehn et al. 2000; Tilman et al. 2001; Cardinale et al. 2006; Tilman, Isbell & Cowles 2014).”
EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE (2005, background): “3; Naeem et al. 1995, Tilman et al. 1996, 1997a, Haggar and Ewel 1997, Hooper and Vitousek 1997, Hooper 1998, Symstad et al. 1998, Hector et al. 1999, Norberg 1999, Wardle et al. 1999, Spehn et al. 2000, Van der Putten et al. 2000, Lepš et al. 2001, Hector 2002).”
Root hemiparasites and plant diversity in experimental grassland communities (2000, methodology): “Host communities containing three functional groups produced 5±8 times as much aboveground biomass as those containing only one functional group (Hector et al. 1999; Spehn et al. 2000).”
ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS (2005, methodology): “To get a measure of vertical biomass-density distribution in the canopy, we calculated the height of the center of gravity by multiplying the biomass of each layer with the mean height of the layer (5z) and dividing the sum of z by the total biomass (Spehn et al. 2000b).”
On the statistical significance of functional diversity effects (2004, background): “Hooper 1998; Norberg 2000; Loreau & Hector 2001), including how changes in resource use differences among the species in an assemblage influence remaining resources levels, such as light interception (Spehn et al. 2000).”
Higher plant diversity enhances soil stability in disturbed alpine ecosystems (2009, background): “Biodiversity has positive effects on ecosystem functioning such as light harvesting (Spehn et al. 2000) or soil nutrient foraging (Niklaus et al. 2001).”