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Bernhard Schmid
Researcher at University of Zurich
Publications - 502
Citations - 52943
Bernhard Schmid is an academic researcher from University of Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 103, co-authored 460 publications receiving 46419 citations. Previous affiliations of Bernhard Schmid include University of Basel & University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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A link between plant diversity, elevated CO2 and soil nitrate
Pascal A. Niklaus,Ellen Kandeler,Paul Leadley,Paul Leadley,Bernhard Schmid,D. Tscherko,Ch. Körner +6 more
TL;DR: Interactive effects of reductions in plant species diversity and increases in atmospheric CO2 were investigated in a long-term study in nutrient-poor calcareous grassland, providing circumstantial evidence that nitrification rates drove the observed changes in [NO3–].
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Biodiversity promotes primary productivity and growing season lengthening at the landscape scale
TL;DR: It is shown that primary productivity, its temporal stability, and the decadal trend of a prolonged growing season strongly increase with biodiversity across heterogeneous landscapes, which is consistent over vast environmental, climatic, and altitudinal gradients.
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Effects of plant diversity on invertebrate herbivory in experimental grassland.
Christoph Scherber,Peter Mwangi,Vicky M. Temperton,Christiane Roscher,Jens Schumacher,Bernhard Schmid,Wolfgang W. Weisser +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that plant species richness is much less important than previously thought and plant functional identity is a much better predictor of invertebrate herbivory in temperate grassland ecosystems.
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Rapid decay of diversity-productivity relationships after invasion of experimental plant communities
TL;DR: Within two years, differences in species richness and biomass production between sets of communities of different initial species richness disappeared and the positive diversity-productivity relationship was no longer detectable whereas species compositions remained distinct.
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Does biodiversity increase spatial stability in plant community biomass
TL;DR: The positive effect of functional diversity on spatial stability appears to be less pronounced than previously reported effects on temporal stability, and the ability of diverse communities to stabilize biomass production across spatial heterogeneity may be due to complementary use of spatial niches.