Authors
Wolfgang W Weisser, Christiane Roscher, Sebastian T Meyer, Anne Ebeling, Guangjuan Luo, Eric Allan, Holger Beßler, Romain L Barnard, Nina Buchmann, François Buscot, Christof Engels, Christine Fischer, Markus Fischer, Arthur Gessler, Gerd Gleixner, Stefan Halle, Anke Hildebrandt, Helmut Hillebrand, Hans de Kroon, Markus Lange, Sophia Leimer, Xavier Le Roux, Alexandru Milcu, Liesje Mommer, Pascal A Niklaus, Yvonne Oelmann, Raphael Proulx, Jacques Roy, Christoph Scherber, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Stefan Scheu, Teja Tscharntke, Michael Wachendorf, Cameron Wagg, Alexandra Weigelt, Wolfgang Wilcke, Christian Wirth, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Bernhard Schmid, Nico Eisenhauer
Publication date
2017/9/1
Journal
Basic and applied ecology
Volume
23
Pages
1-73
Publisher
Urban & Fischer
Description
In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of ecosystem variables. The Jena Experiment was set up in 2002 to investigate the effects of plant diversity on element cycling and trophic interactions, using a multi-disciplinary approach. Here, we review the results of 15 years of research in the Jena Experiment, focussing on the effects of manipulating plant species richness and plant functional richness. With more than 85,000 measures taken from the plant diversity plots, the Jena Experiment has allowed answering fundamental questions important for functional biodiversity research.
First, the question was how general the effect of plant species richness is, regarding the many different processes that take place in an ecosystem. About 45% of different types of ecosystem processes measured …
Scholar articles
WW Weisser, C Roscher, ST Meyer, A Ebeling, G Luo… - Basic and applied ecology, 2017