Peter Mwangi

TL;DR: The data suggest that the main driving force behind these facilitative interactions in plots containing legumes was reduced competition for soil nitrate (“nitrate sparing”), with apparent N transfer playing a secondary role.

TL;DR: In this paper, the root:shoot ratio (RS) was used to estimate belowground biomass in agricultural landscape mosaics of Western Kenya with about 90% accuracy using local generic equations from 72 trees (diameter at breast height (dbh): 3-102 cm).

TL;DR: Results indicate that invasion resistance of experimental plant communities is related to the degree of niche overlap between resident species and invaders, which can be high due to generally low amounts of empty niche space in species-rich resident communities or due to the occurrence of the same functional group as the one of the invader in the resident community.

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.

TL;DR: The Jena Experiment data set as mentioned in this paper contains species-specific biomass and cover data as well as community leaf area index (LAI) and height from a large grassland biodiversity experiment (Jena Experiment).