Overyielding in experimental grassland communities - Irrespective of species pool or spatial scale

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Authors

  • Christiane Roscher
  • Vicky M. Temperton
  • Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
  • Martin Schmitz
  • Jens Schumacher
  • Bernhard Schmid
  • Nina Buchmann
  • Wolfgang W. Weisser
  • Ernst Detlef Schulze

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 broadly from dominant to subordinate competitors on large 20 x 20 m and small 3.5 x 3.5 m plots (= main experiment), and one with a pool of nine potentially dominant species on small 3.5 x 3.5 m plots (= dominance experiment). We found identical positive species richness-aboveground productivity relationships in the main experiment at both scales. This result suggests that scaling up, at least over the short term, is appropriate in interpreting the implications of such experiments for larger-scale patterns. The species richness-productivity relationship was more pronounced in the experiment with dominant species (46.7 and 82.6% yield increase compared to mean monoculture, respectively). Additionally, transgressive overyielding occurred more frequently in the dominance experiment (67.7% of cases) than in the main experiment (23.4% of cases). Additive partitioning and relative yield total analyses showed that both complementarity and selection effects contributed to the positive net biodiversity effect.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEcology Letters
Volume8
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)419-429
Number of pages11
ISSN1461-023X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.04.2005
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Biodiversity, Complementarity effect, Dominant species, Plant species richness, Plot size, Productivity, Selection effect, The Jena Experiment
  • Biology
  • Ecosystems Research

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