Long-term study of root biomass in a biodiversity experiment reveals shifts in diversity effects over time

Independent variations of plant and soil mixtures reveal soil feedback effects on plant community overyielding

(2013) Marloes Hendriks et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do grassland plant communities profit from N partitioning by soil depth?

(2012) Stefanie von Felten et al.   ECOLOGY

Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long-term grassland experiment

(2012) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Plant diversity effects on aboveground and belowground N pools in temperate grassland ecosystems: Development in the first 5 years after establishment

(2011) Yvonne Oelmann et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Root responses to nutrients and soil biota: drivers of species coexistence and ecosystem productivity

(2011) Hans de Kroon et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Spatial patterns of plant diversity below-ground as revealed by DNA barcoding

(2011) PRASAD R. KESANAKURTI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control

(2011) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Belowground DNA-based techniques: untangling the network of plant root interactions

(2011) Liesje Mommer et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Grassland root communities: species distributions and how they are linked to aboveground abundance

(2010) Douglas A. Frank et al.   ECOLOGY

The Jena Experiment: six years of data from a grassland biodiversity experiment

(2010) Alexandra Weigelt et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil fungal pathogens and the relationship between plant diversity and productivity

(2010) John L. Maron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Differences in fine root productivity between mixed- and single-species stands

(2010) Brian W. Brassard et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Unveiling below-ground species abundance in a biodiversity experiment: a test of vertical niche differentiation among grassland species

(2010) Liesje Mommer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Belowground nitrogen partitioning in experimental grassland plant communities of varying species richness

(2009) Stefanie von Felten et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six-year grassland experiment

(2009) Elisabeth Marquard et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecological mechanisms associated with the positive diversity–productivity relationship in an N-limited grassland

(2009) D. A. Fornara et al.   ECOLOGY

Aboveground overyielding in grassland mixtures is associated with reduced biomass partitioning to belowground organs

(2009) Holger Bessler et al.   ECOLOGY

JANZEN-CONNELL EFFECTS ARE WIDESPREAD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN DIVERSITY IN GRASSLANDS

(2008) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation

(2008) D. A. Fornara et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Complementarity among species in horizontal versus vertical rooting space

(2008) S. von Felten et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Long-term persistence of a positive plant diversity-productivity relationship in the absence of legumes

(2008) Jasper van Ruijven et al.   OIKOS