Andreas Y. Troumbis

TL;DR: Niche complementarity and positive species interactions appear to play a role in generating diversity-productivity relationships within sites in addition to sampling from the species pool.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a multisite analysis of the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning within the European BIODEPTH network of plant-diversity manipulation experiments, showing that communities with a higher diversity of species and functional groups were more productive and utilized resources more completely by intercepting more light, taking up more nitrogen, and occupying more of the available space.

TL;DR: The results suggest that stabilizing effects of diversity on community productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding appear to be general in grassland ecosystems.

TL;DR: The overall performance of the three test species, Trifolium pratense, Dactylis glomerata, Plantago lanceolata, was generally highest for plants replanted at their home site and declined with increasing transplanting distance.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the consequences of species loss on the nitrogen budget of plant communities may be more severe if legume species are lost, and there is indication that P availability in the soil facilitates the legume effect on biomass production and biomass nitrogen accumulation.