Plant Diversity and Productivity Experiments in European Grasslands

Hector, Andy; Schmid, Bernhard; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; C. Caldeira, Maria; Diemer, Matthias; G. Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis; A. Finn, John; Freitas, Helena; S. Giller, Paul; E. G. Good, J.; Harris, Richard; Högberg, Peter; Huss‐Danell, Kerstin; Joshi, Jasmin; Jumpponen, Ari; Körner, Christian; Leadley, Paul; Loreau, Michel; Minns, Asher; P. H. Mulder, Christa; O’Donovan, Grace; J. Otway, S.; S. Pereira, J.; Prinz, Alexandra; J. Read, D.; Scherer‐Lorenzen, Michael; Schulze, Ernst‐Detlef; S. D. Siamantziouras, A.; Spehn, Eva; C. Terry, A.; Y. Troumbis, Andreas; I. Woodward, F.; Yachi, Shigeo; H. Lawton, John

doi:10.1126/science.286.5442.1123

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Plant Diversity and Productivity Experiments in European Grasslands

Published in Science • Nov 5, 1999

Authors:

Andy Hector

Bernhard Schmid

Carl Beierkuhnlein

Abstract

At eight European field sites, the impact of loss of plant diversity on primary productivity was simulated by synthesizing grassland communities with different numbers of plant species. Results differed in detail at each location, but there was an overall log-linear reduction of average aboveground ...

Subject

Productivity

Grassland

Complementarity (molecular biology)

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