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S. J. Otway
Researcher at Imperial College London
Publications - 11
Citations - 3542
S. J. Otway is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 11 publications receiving 3351 citations. Previous affiliations of S. J. Otway include United Kingdom Ministry of Defence.
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Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands
Andy Hector,Bernhard Schmid,Carl Beierkuhnlein,Maria C. Caldeira,M. Diemer,Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos,John A. Finn,Helena Freitas,Paul S. Giller,J. Good,R. Harris,Peter Högberg,Kerstin Huss-Danell,Jasmin Joshi,Ari Jumpponen,Christian Körner,Paul Leadley,Michel Loreau,A. Minns,Christa P. H. Mulder,G. O'Donovan,S. J. Otway,João Pereira,Alexandra Prinz,David Read,Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Ernst Detlef Schulze,A.-S. D. Siamantziouras,Eva Spehn,A. C. Terry,Andreas Y. Troumbis,F. I. Woodward,Shigeo Yachi,John H. Lawton +33 more
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.
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Ecosystem effects of biodiversity manipulations in european grasslands
Eva Spehn,Andy Hector,Jasmin Joshi,Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Bernhard Schmid,E. Bazeley-White,Carl Beierkuhnlein,Maria C. Caldeira,M. Diemer,Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos,John A. Finn,Helena Freitas,Paul S. Giller,J. Good,R. Harris,Peter Högberg,Kerstin Huss-Danell,Ari Jumpponen,Julia Koricheva,Paul Leadley,Michel Loreau,A. Minns,Christa P. H. Mulder,G. O'Donovan,S. J. Otway,Cecilia Palmborg,João Pereira,A. B. Pfisterer,Alexandra Prinz,David Read,Ernst Detlef Schulze,A.-S. D. Siamantziouras,A. C. Terry,Andreas Y. Troumbis,F. I. Woodward,Shigeo Yachi,John H. Lawton +36 more
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.
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No consistent effect of plant diversity on productivity. Response
Michael A. Huston,Lonnie W. Aarssen,Mike P. Austin,Brian S. Cade,Jason D. Fridley,Eric Garnier,J. P. Grime,John G. Hodgson,William K. Lauenroth,Ken Thompson,John Vandermeer,David A. Wardle,Andy Hector,Bernhard Schmid,Carl Beierkuhnlein,Maria C. Caldeira,M. Diemer,Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos,John A. Finn,Helena Freitas,Paul S. Giller,J. Good,R. Harrs,Peter Högberg,Kerstin Huss-Danell,Jasmin Joshi,Ari Jumpponen,Ch. Körner,Paul Leadley,Michel Loreau,A. Minns,Christa P. H. Mulder,G. O'Donovan,S. J. Otway,João Pereira,Alexandra Prinz,David Read,Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Ernst Detlef Schulze,A.-S. D. Siamantziouras,Eva Spehn,A. C. Terry,Andreas Y. Troumbis,F. I. Woodward,Shigeo Yachi,J. H. Lawton +45 more
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Consequences of the reduction of plant diversity for litter decomposition: effects through litter quality and microenvironment
TL;DR: The strengths and limitations of the short-term litterbag trials in predicting the longer-term effects of changes in plant diversity on litter decomposition rates are critically assessed.
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Overyielding in grassland communities: testing the sampling effect hypothesis with replicated biodiversity experiments
TL;DR: A positive relationship between production in monoculture and dominance in mixtures as predicted by the Sampling Effect Hypothesis is found and a new general framework for overyielding analysis is presented where every monocculture provides a potential comparison and from which the most relevant tests can be selected.