Bernhard Schmid

TL;DR: This work demonstrates how to adapt the framework of stochastic community dynamics to the peculiarities of herbaceous communities, by using a short temporal resolution adapted to the time scale of competition between herbaceous plants, and by taking into account the seasonal drops in plant aerial biomass following winter, harvesting or consumption by herbivores.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the concept of functional groups is viable, but context-specific trait measurements are required to improve the understanding about the functional significance of intraspecific trait variation and interspecific trait differences in local plant communities.

TL;DR: It is shown that sexual plants are better inter-specific competitors than apomicts in terms of vegetative reproduction (number of stolons) and vegetative spread (stolon length), while apomels do better than sexuals in intra-specific competition.

TL;DR: Diverse plant communities can sustain AMF viability in soils and demonstrate the potential of diverse plant communities to maintain viable AMF propagules that are a key component to soil health and productivity are demonstrated.

TL;DR: Development of clones, population flux of shoots, sexual reproduction, population dynamics of seeds, and growth and survival of seedlings and young plants were studied in detail over a period of 3 years.