Linking plant diversity-productivity relationships to plant functional traits of dominant species and changes in soil properties in 15-year-old experimental grasslands.

ABSTRACT: Positive plant diversity-productivity relationships are known to be driven by complementary resource use via differences in plant functional traits. Moreover, soil properties related to nutrient availability were shown to change with plant diversity over time; however, it is not well-understood whether and how such plant diversity-dependent soil changes and associated changes in functional traits contribute to positive diversity-productivity relationships in the long run. To test this, we investigated plant communities of different species richness (1, 2, 6, and 9 species) in a 15-year-old grassland biodiversity experiment. We determined community biomass production and biodiversity effects (net biodiversity [NEs], complementarity [CEs], and selection effects [SEs]), as well as community m

SUBMITTER: Dietrich P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9994614 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature