Search Results - "BUCHMANN, Nina"
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Smart farming is key to developing sustainable agriculture
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Are trees able to grow in periods of stem shrinkage?
Published in The New phytologist (01-08-2016)“…Separating continuously measured stem radius (SR) fluctuations into growth-induced irreversible stem expansion (GRO) and tree water deficit-induced reversible…”
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Legumes are different: Leaf nitrogen, photosynthesis, and water use efficiency
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-04-2016)“…Using robust, pairwise comparisons and a global dataset, we show that nitrogen concentration per unit leaf mass for nitrogen-fixing plants (N₂FP; mainly…”
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Employing stable isotopes to determine the residence times of soil water and the temporal origin of water taken up by Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies in a temperate forest
Published in The New phytologist (01-09-2018)“…We assessed how the seasonal variability of precipitation δ2H and δ18O is propagated into soil and xylem waters of temperate trees, applied a hydrological…”
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Why trees grow at night
Published in The New phytologist (01-09-2021)“…Summary The timing of diel stem growth of mature forest trees is still largely unknown, as empirical data with high temporal resolution have not been available…”
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An ecological economic assessment of risk-reducing effects of species diversity in managed grasslands
Published in Ecological economics (01-02-2015)“…Over the last decade, it has been shown in the ecology literature that species diversity increases yield stability in managed grasslands. Here, we develop and…”
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Plant diversity effects on forage quality, yield and revenues of semi-natural grasslands
Published in Nature communications (07-02-2020)“…In agricultural settings, plant diversity is often associated with low biomass yield and forage quality, while biodiversity experiments typically find the…”
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Economic value of three grassland ecosystem services when managed at the regional and farm scale
Published in Scientific reports (09-03-2022)“…Grasslands cover a major share of the world’s agricultural land and their management influences ecosystem services. Spatially targeted policy instruments can…”
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Effect of environmental conditions on sun-induced fluorescence in a mixed forest and a cropland
Published in Remote sensing of environment (15-12-2018)“…Due to the large carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, dynamics of photosynthesis can have significant effects on…”
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Canopy photosynthesis of six major arable crops is enhanced under diffuse light due to canopy architecture
Published in Global change biology (01-09-2020)“…Diffuse radiation generally increases photosynthetic rates if total radiation is kept constant. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain this…”
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Enhanced top soil carbon stocks under organic farming
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-10-2012)“…It has been suggested that conversion to organic farming contributes to soil carbon sequestration, but until now a comprehensive quantitative assessment has…”
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Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-04-2014)“…Photosynthesis is the process by which plants harvest sunlight to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water. It is the primary source of energy for all life…”
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Adaptation to drought is coupled with slow growth, but independent from phenology in marginal silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) populations
Published in Evolutionary applications (01-10-2020)“…Drought is one of the most important selection pressures for forest trees in the context of climate change. Yet, the different evolutionary mechanisms, and…”
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Biotic and abiotic factors controlling soil respiration rates in Picea abies stands
Published in Soil biology & biochemistry (01-10-2000)“…The response of soil respiration to varying environmental factors was studied in four Picea abies stands (47-, 87-, 111- and 146-year old) during the 1998…”
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Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts
Published in Global change biology (01-08-2015)“…Extreme droughts, heat waves, frosts, precipitation, wind storms and other climate extremes may impact the structure, composition and functioning of…”
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Using plant functional traits to explain diversity-productivity relationships
Published in PloS one (18-05-2012)“…The different hypotheses proposed to explain positive species richness-productivity relationships, i.e. selection effect and complementarity effect, imply that…”
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Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems
Published in Nature communications (29-03-2019)“…Humans modify ecosystems and biodiversity worldwide, with negative consequences for ecosystem functioning. Promoting plant diversity is increasingly suggested…”
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Biodiversity–stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment
Published in Nature communications (14-12-2022)“…Numerous studies have demonstrated that biodiversity drives ecosystem functioning, yet how biodiversity loss alters ecosystems functioning and stability in the…”
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The costs of diversity: higher prices for more diverse grassland seed mixtures
Published in Environmental research letters (01-09-2021)“…Abstract Globally, we face a dramatic biodiversity loss in agricultural systems as well as severe ecosystem degradation. In grasslands, higher biodiversity in…”
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Climate and vegetation controls on the surface water balance: Synthesis of evapotranspiration measured across a global network of flux towers
Published in Water resources research (01-06-2012)“…The Budyko framework elegantly reduces the complex spatial patterns of actual evapotranspiration and runoff to a general function of two variables: mean annual…”
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