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Rapid transgenerational adaptation in response to intercropping reduces competition by Stefan, Laura, Engbersen, Nadine, Schöb, Christian

“…By capitalising on positive biodiversity – productivity relationships, intercropping provides opportunities to improve agricultural sustainability…”
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Foundation species influence trait-based community assembly by Schöb, Christian, Butterfield, Bradley J., Pugnaire, Francisco I.

“…Here, we incorporate facilitation into trait-based community assembly theory by testing two mutually compatible facilitative mechanisms: changes in the…”
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Decreasing nitrogen deposition rates: Good news for oligotrophic grassland species? by Kammer, Peter M., Rihm, Beat, Schöb, Christian

“…Several studies have found that increased nitrogen (N) deposition leads to a decline in species richness in semi-natural grasslands, mainly due to the loss of…”
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Using spatially-explicit plant competition models to optimise crop productivity in intercropped systems by Stefan, Laura, Engbersen, Nadine, Schöb, Christian

“…Intercropping, by capitalizing on positive biodiversity–productivity relationships, represents a promising option to increase agricultural sustainability…”
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Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients by Schöb, Christian, Armas, Cristina, Guler, Manuela, Prieto, Iván, Pugnaire, Francisco I.

“…1. Environmental gradients may influence a plant's physiological status and morphology, which in turn may affect plant-plant interactions. However, little is…”
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Improving intercropping: a synthesis of research in agronomy, plant physiology and ecology by Brooker, Rob W, Bennett, Alison E, Cong, Wen‐Feng, Daniell, Tim J, George, Timothy S, Hallett, Paul D, Hawes, Cathy, Iannetta, Pietro P. M, Jones, Hamlyn G, Karley, Alison J, Li, Long, McKenzie, Blair M, Pakeman, Robin J, Paterson, Eric, Schöb, Christian, Shen, Jianbo, Squire, Geoff, Watson, Christine A, Zhang, Chaochun, Zhang, Fusuo, Zhang, Junling, White, Philip J

“…Intercropping is a farming practice involving two or more crop species, or genotypes, growing together and coexisting for a time. On the fringes of modern…”
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Facilitation and biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships in crop production systems and their role in sustainable farming by Brooker, Rob W., George, Tim S., Homulle, Zohralyn, Karley, Alison J., Newton, Adrian C., Pakeman, Robin J., Schöb, Christian, Wright, Alexandra

“…We review the need for increasing agricultural sustainability, how this can in part be delivered by positive biodiversity–ecosystem function (BEF) effects, the…”
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Positive Effects of Crop Diversity on Productivity Driven by Changes in Soil Microbial Composition by Stefan, Laura, Hartmann, Martin, Engbersen, Nadine, Six, Johan, Schöb, Christian

“…Intensive agriculture has major negative impacts on ecosystem diversity and functioning, including that of soils. The associated reduction of soil biodiversity…”
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Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change by Michalet, Richard, Schöb, Christian, Lortie, Christopher J, Brooker, Rob W, Callaway, Ragan M, Bailey, Joseph K

“…Altitudinal gradients provide a useful space‐for‐time substitution to examine the capacity for plant competition and facilitation to mediate responses to…”
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Temporal Differentiation of Resource Capture and Biomass Accumulation as a Driver of Yield Increase in Intercropping by Engbersen, Nadine, Brooker, Rob W., Stefan, Laura, Studer, Björn, Schöb, Christian

“…Intercropping, i.e., the simultaneous cultivation of different crops on the same field, has demonstrated yield advantages compared to monoculture cropping…”
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Nitrogen fixation by common beans in crop mixtures is influenced by growth rate of associated species by Singh, Akanksha, Schöb, Christian, Iannetta, Pietro P M

“…Legumes can fix atmospheric nitrogen (N) and facilitate N availability to their companion plants in crop mixtures. However, biological nitrogen fixation (BNF)…”
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Intraspecific genetic diversity and composition modify species‐level diversity–productivity relationships by Schöb, Christian, Kerle, Sarah, Karley, Alison J, Morcillo, Luna, Pakeman, Robin J, Newton, Adrian C, Brooker, Rob W

“…Biodiversity regulates ecosystem functions such as productivity, and experimental studies of species mixtures have revealed selection and complementarity…”
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Degeneration of foundation cushion species induced by ecological constraints can cause massive changes in alpine plant communities by Chen, Jianguo, Chen, Xufang, Qian, Lishen, Zhang, Yazhou, Li, Bo, Shi, Honghua, Sun, Lu, Schöb, Christian, Sun, Hang

“…Foundational cushion plants can re-organize community structures and sustain a prominent proportion of alpine biodiversity, but they are sensitive to climate…”
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Effect of Drought on Bean Yield Is Mediated by Intraspecific Variation in Crop Mixtures by Singh, Akanksha, Lehner, Inea, Schöb, Christian

“…Increasing plant diversity in agricultural systems provides promising solutions for sustainably increasing crop yield. It remains unclear; however, how…”
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Legume Shrubs Are More Nitrogen-Homeostatic than Non-legume Shrubs by Guo, Yanpei, Yang, Xian, Schöb, Christian, Jiang, Youxu, Tang, Zhiyao

“…Legumes are characterized as keeping stable nutrient supply under nutrient-limited conditions. However, few studies examined the legumes' stoichiometric…”
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Plant domestication disrupts biodiversity effects across major crop types by Chacón‐Labella, Julia, García Palacios, Pablo, Matesanz, Silvia, Schöb, Christian, Milla, Rubén, Swenson, Nathan

“…Plant diversity fosters productivity in natural ecosystems. Biodiversity effects might increase agricultural yields at no cost in additional inputs. However,…”
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Competition, facilitation and environmental severity shape the relationship between local and regional species richness in plant communities by Michalet, Richard, Maalouf, Jean-Paul, Choler, Philippe, Clément, Bernard, Rosebery, David, Royer, Jean-Marie, Schöb, Christian, Lortie, Christopher J.

“…Understanding the relative contribution of local and regional processes to local species richness is an important ecological question and a subject of…”
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Contribution of co-occurring shrub species to community richness and phylogenetic diversity along an environmental gradient by Pistón, Nuria, Schöb, Christian, Armas, Cristina, Prieto, Iván, Pugnaire, Francisco I.

“…•There were a variety of shrub effects on overall plant abundance and richness depending on shrub identity.•Such differences are most likely due to the…”
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How do different functional crop groups perform in temperate silvoarable agroforestry systems? A Swiss case study by Hond‐Vaccaro, Christina, Six, Johan, Schöb, Christian

“…Introduction Agroforestry systems provide a number of ecosystem services and are frequently considered as a promising diversification strategy for more…”
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Temporal dynamics of biodiversity effects and light‐use‐related traits in two intercropping systems by Engbersen, Nadine, Stefan, Laura, Brooker, Rob W., Schöb, Christian

“…Introduction Intercropping systems can be more productive than their respective monocultures and this positive net biodiversity effect is caused by…”
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