Below-ground resource partitioning alone cannot explain the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship: A field test using multiple tracers

Below-ground complementarity effects in a grassland biodiversity experiment are related to deep-rooting species

(2017) Natalie J. Oram et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Larger yields of mixtures than monocultures of cultivated grassland species match with asynchrony in shoot growth among species but not with increased light interception

(2016) Sébastien Husse et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Least-Squares Means: TheRPackagelsmeans

(2016) Russell V. Lenth   Journal of Statistical Software

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

(2016) W. Stanley Harpole et al.   NATURE

Plants are less negatively affected by flooding when growing in species-rich plant communities

(2016) Alexandra J. Wright et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

High-resolution isotope measurements resolve rapid ecohydrological dynamics at the soil-plant interface

(2016) Till H. M. Volkmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional composition rather than species richness determines root characteristics of experimental grasslands grown at different light and nutrient availability

(2016) Alrun Siebenkäs et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

No Evidence of Complementary Water Use along a Plant Species Richness Gradient in Temperate Experimental Grasslands

(2015) Dörte Bachmann et al.   PLoS One

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

(2014) David Tilman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Evolution of species interactions determines microbial community productivity in new environments

(2014) Francesca Fiegna et al.   ISME Journal

Selection for niche differentiation in plant communities increases biodiversity effects

(2014) Debra Zuppinger-Dingley et al.   NATURE

No shift to a deeper water uptake depth in response to summer drought of two lowland and sub-alpine C3-grasslands in Switzerland

(2014) Ulrich E. Prechsl et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

(2014) Janneke M. Ravenek et al.   OIKOS

Quantifying resource use complementarity in grassland species: A comparison of different nutrient tracers

(2014) Annette Gockele et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

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

(2012) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   ECOLOGY

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

(2012) David U. Hooper et al.   NATURE

Complex facilitation and competition in a temperate grassland: loss of plant diversity and elevated CO2 have divergent and opposite effects on oak establishment

(2012) Alexandra Wright et al.   OECOLOGIA

Root niche partitioning among grasses, saplings, and trees measured using a tracer technique

(2012) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   OECOLOGIA

Nitrogen uptake by grassland communities: contribution of N2 fixation, facilitation, complementarity, and species dominance

(2012) Holger Bessler et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant-soil feedbacks provide an additional explanation for diversity-productivity relationships

(2012) A. Kulmatiski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale   NATURE

Foliar and soil δ 15 N values reveal increased nitrogen partitioning among species in diverse grassland communities

(2011) MARLÉN GUBSCH et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

(2010) Douglas A. Frank et al.   ECOLOGY

Niche complementarity due to plasticity in resource use: plant partitioning of chemical N forms

(2010) Isabel W. Ashton 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

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

A depth-controlled tracer technique measures vertical, horizontal and temporal patterns of water use by trees and grasses in a subtropical savanna

(2010) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

N2 fixation and performance of 12 legume species in a 6-year grassland biodiversity experiment

(2010) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

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

(2009) Holger Bessler et al.   ECOLOGY

Complementary nitrogen use among potentially dominant species in a biodiversity experiment varies between two years

(2008) Christiane Roscher et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Niche Partitioning Increases Resource Exploitation by Diverse Communities

(2008) Deborah L. Finke et al.   SCIENCE