Bernhard Schmid

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified the contribution of soil fungal and bacterial communities to the temporal stability of four key ecosystem functions related to biogeochemical cycling and found that soil microbial diversity enhanced the stability of all ecosystem functions and this pattern was particularly strong in plant-soil mesocosms with reduced microbial richness where over 50% of microbial taxa were lost.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that host-specific rhizobacteria hold some promise as biological weed-control agents, and a highly significant plant species x bacterial strain interaction found on Echinochloa crus-galli.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the main results from the BIODEPTH project, the first multinational, large-scale experiment to examine directly the relationship between plant diversity and the processes that determine the functioning of ecosystems.

TL;DR: In these plants the environment influences variation in architecture less strongly than it affects variation in size, and it is suggested that the influence of mode of reproduction on phenotypic flexibility may reflect a stronger architectural "blueprint" in seed- derived plants (less flexible) as compared with rhizome-derived plants (more flexible).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted experiments in four non-overlapping species pools containing the three functional groups grasses, herbs and legumes and established all species in monoculture, 3-and 6-species mixture on plots with horizontally heterogeneous or uniform distribution of the same total amount of soil nutrients.