Search Results - "Roscher, C"

Effects of plant diversity on species-specific herbivory: patterns and mechanisms by Bröcher, M., Ebeling, A., Hertzog, L., Roscher, C., Weisser, W., Meyer, S. T.

“…Invertebrate herbivory can shape plant communities when impacting growth and fitness of some plant species more than other species. Previous studies showed…”
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Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands by Risch, A. C., Zimmermann, S., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Schütz, M., Frey, B., Firn, J. L., Fay, P. A., Hagedorn, F., Borer, E. T., Seabloom, E. W., Harpole, W. S., Knops, J. M. H., McCulley, R. L., Broadbent, A. A. D., Stevens, C. J., Silveira, M. L., Adler, P. B., Báez, S., Biederman, L. A., Blair, J. M., Brown, C. S., Caldeira, M. C., Collins, S. L., Daleo, P., di Virgilio, A., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Esch, E., Eskelinen, A., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Kirkman, K. P., MacDougall, A. S., Moore, J. L., Power, S. A., Prober, S. M., Roscher, C., Sankaran, M., Siebert, J., Speziale, K. L., Tognetti, P. M., Virtanen, R., Yahdjian, L., Moser, B.

“…Soil nitrogen mineralisation (N min ), the conversion of organic into inorganic N, is important for productivity and nutrient cycling. The balance between…”
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Priority effects transcend scales and disciplines in biology by Stroud, J.T., Delory, B.M., Barnes, E.M., Chase, J.M., De Meester, L., Dieskau, J., Grainger, T.N., Halliday, F.W., Kardol, P., Knight, T.M., Ladouceur, E., Little, C.J., Roscher, C., Sarneel, J.M., Temperton, V.M., van Steijn, T.L.H., Werner, C.M., Wood, C.W., Fukami, T.

“…The effects of species on one another sometimes depend on the order in which they arrive at a local site. This historical contingency, termed priority effects,…”
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Abiotic factors are more important than land management and biotic interactions in shaping vascular plant and soil fungal communities by Slabbert, E.L., Knight, T.M., Wubet, T., Kautzner, A., Baessler, C., Auge, H., Roscher, C., Schweiger, O.

“…Human-induced disturbances to ecosystems cause a direct loss of biodiversity, and also alter the inherent processes that shape ecosystems even after the main…”
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Management breaks the natural productivity-biodiversity relationship in forests and grassland: an opinion by Schulze, E. D., Bouriaud, O., Weber, U., Roscher, C., Hessenmoeller, D., Kroiher, F., Schall, P.

“…Background Two approaches mark the difference between the “ecological” and “agricultural” view of the biodiversity/growth relation. In ecology the trend is…”
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Plant species diversity and composition of experimental grasslands affect genetic differentiation of Lolium perenne populations by NESTMANN, S., SRETENOVIC RAJICIC, T., DEHMER, K. J., FISCHER, M., SCHUMACHER, J., ROSCHER, C.

“…Contrasting hypotheses exist about the relationship between plant species diversity and genetic diversity. However, experimental data of species diversity…”
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Light and nitrogen competition limit Lolium perenne in experimental grasslands of increasing plant diversity by Roscher, C., Kutsch, W. L., Schulze, E.-D.

“…Positive species richness effects on aboveground community productivity in experimental grasslands have been reported to correlate with variable responses of…”
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Adaptive survival mechanisms and growth limitations of small-stature herb species across a plant diversity gradient by Daßler, A., Roscher, C., Temperton, V. M., Schumacher, J., Schulze, E.-D.

“…Several biodiversity experiments have shown positive effects of species richness on aboveground biomass production, but highly variable responses of individual…”
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Major themes for 2009 in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia by Fassl, J, Riha, H, Ramakrishna, H, Singh, N, Wyckoff, T, Roscher, C, Augoustides, J G T

“…The hybrid operating room is the venue for transcatheter therapy with the convergence of three specialties: cardiac surgery, cardiovascular anesthesiology, and…”
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Plant species diversity affects infiltration capacity in an experimental grassland through changes in soil properties by Fischer, Christine, Tischer, Jana, Roscher, Christiane, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ravenek, Janneke, Gleixner, Gerd, Attinger, Sabine, Jensen, Britta, de Kroon, Hans, Mommer, Liesje, Scheu, Stefan, Hildebrandt, Anke

“…BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Soil hydraulic properties drive water distribution and availability in soil. There exists limited knowledge of how plant species diversity…”
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Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six-year grassland experiment by Marquard, Elisabeth, Weigelt, Alexandra, Temperton, Vicky M, Roscher, Christiane, Schumacher, Jens, Buchmann, Nina, Fischer, Markus, Weisser, Wolfgang W, Schmid, Bernhard

“…Plant diversity has been shown to increase community biomass in experimental communities, but the mechanisms resulting in such positive biodiversity effects…”
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Flooding disturbances increase resource availability and productivity but reduce stability in diverse plant communities by Wright, Alexandra J., Ebeling, Anne, de Kroon, Hans, Roscher, Christiane, Weigelt, Alexandra, Buchmann, Nina, Buchmann, Tina, Fischer, Christine, Hacker, Nina, Hildebrandt, Anke, Leimer, Sophia, Mommer, Liesje, Oelmann, Yvonne, Scheu, Stefan, Steinauer, Katja, Strecker, Tanja, Weisser, Wolfgang, Wilcke, Wolfgang, Eisenhauer, Nico

“…The natural world is increasingly defined by change. Within the next 100 years, rising atmospheric CO 2 concentrations will continue to increase the frequency…”
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Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: evidence from 51 grassland species in experimental monocultures by Loranger, Jessy, Meyer, Sebastian T., Shipley, Bill, Kattge, Jens, Loranger, Hannah, Roscher, Christiane, Weisser, Wolfgang W.

“…Invertebrate herbivores can impact plant performance and plant communities. Conversely, plants can affect the ability of herbivores to find, choose, and…”
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A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions by Allan, Eric, Weisser, Wolfgang W., Fischer, Markus, Schulze, Ernst-Detlef, Weigelt, Alexandra, Roscher, Christiane, Baade, Jussi, Barnard, Romain L., Beßler, Holger, Buchmann, Nina, Ebeling, Anne, Eisenhauer, Nico, Engels, Christof, Fergus, Alexander J. F., Gleixner, Gerd, Gubsch, Marlén, Halle, Stefan, Klein, Alexandra M., Kertscher, Ilona, Kuu, Annely, Lange, Markus, Le Roux, Xavier, Meyer, Sebastian T., Migunova, Varvara D., Milcu, Alexandru, Niklaus, Pascal A., Oelmann, Yvonne, Pašalić, Esther, Petermann, Jana S., Poly, Franck, Rottstock, Tanja, Sabais, Alexander C. W., Scherber, Christoph, Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael, Scheu, Stefan, Steinbeiss, Sibylle, Schwichtenberg, Guido, Temperton, Vicky, Tscharntke, Teja, Voigt, Winfried, Wilcke, Wolfgang, Wirth, Christian, Schmid, Bernhard

“…In order to predict which ecosystem functions are most at risk from biodiversity loss, meta-analyses have generalised results from biodiversity experiments…”
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Aboveground Overyielding in Grassland Mixtures Is Associated with Reduced Biomass Partitioning to Belowground Organs by Bessler, Holger, Temperton, Vicky M., Roscher, Christiane, Buchmann, Nina, Schmid, Bernhard, Schulze, Ernst-Detlef, Weisser, Wolfgang W., Engels, Christof

“…We investigated effects of plant species richness in experimental grassland plots on annual above- and belowground biomass production estimated from repeated…”
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Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: Polycultures show strong nonadditive effects by Loranger, Jessy, Loranger, Hannah, Meyer, Sebastian T, Shipley, Bill, Kattge, Jens, Roscher, Christiane, Wirth, Christian, Weisser, Wolfgang W

“…Plant functional traits affect the capacity of herbivores to find, choose, and consume plants. However, in a community composed of different plant species, it…”
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Experimental plant communities develop phylogenetically overdispersed abundance distributions during assembly by Allan, Eric, Jenkins, Tania, Fergus, Alexander J. F, Roscher, Christiane, Fischer, Markus, Petermann, Jana, Weisser, Wolfgang W, Schmid, Bernhard

“…The importance of competition between similar species in driving community assembly is much debated. Recently, phylogenetic patterns in species composition…”
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The role of biodiversity for element cycling and trophic interactions: an experimental approach in a grassland community by Roscher, Christiane, Schumacher, Jens, Baade, Jussi, Wilcke, Wolfgang, Gleixner, Gerd, Weisser, Wolfgang W., Schmid, Bernhard, Schulze, Ernst-Detlef

“…The focus of a new experiment, set up in Jena in spring 2002, are the effects of biodiversity on element cycles and the interaction of plant diversity with…”
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Biology, chance, or history? The predictable reassembly of temperate grassland communities by Petermann, Jana S., Fergus, Alexander J. F., Roscher, Christiane, Turnbull, Lindsay A., Weigelt, Alexandra, Schmid, Bernhard

“…Many studies have examined invasion resistance in plant communities, but few have explored the mechanisms of invasion and how subsequent community reassembly…”
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Overyielding in experimental grassland communities - irrespective of species pool or spatial scale by Roscher, Christiane, Temperton, Vicky M., Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael, Schmitz, Martin, Schumacher, Jens, Schmid, Bernhard, Buchmann, Nina, Weisser, Wolfgang W., Schulze, Ernst-Detlef

“…In a large integrated biodiversity project (‘The Jena Experiment’ in Germany) we established two experiments, one with a pool of 60 plant species that ranged…”
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