Plant history and soil history jointly influence the selection environment for plant species in a long-term grassland biodiversity experiment.

ABSTRACT: Long-term biodiversity experiments have shown increasing strengths of biodiversity effects on plant productivity over time. However, little is known about rapid evolutionary processes in response to plant community diversity, which could contribute to explaining the strengthening positive relationship. To address this issue, we performed a transplant experiment with offspring of seeds collected from four grass species in a 14-year-old biodiversity experiment (Jena Experiment). We used two- and six-species communities and removed the vegetation of the study plots to exclude plant-plant interactions. In a reciprocal design, we transplanted five "home" phytometers (same origin and actual environment), five "away-same" phytometers (same species richness of origin and actual environment, but di

SUBMITTER: Dietrich P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8216899 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature