Uta Schumacher

TL;DR: The Biodiversity Exploratories (www.biodiversityexploratories.de ) as mentioned in this paper is a large-scale and long-term project for functional biodiversity, which includes a hierarchical set of standardized field plots in three different regions of Germany covering manifold management types and intensities in grasslands and forests.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defined a compound, additive LUI index for managed grasslands including meadows and pastures, which summarizes the standardized intensity of three components of land use, namely fertilization, mowing, and livestock grazing at each site.

TL;DR: Detailed data on grassland management is provided to allow for detailed analyses and the development of land use theory to understand if and how humans affect it through the way they manage the land and to develop sustainable land use strategies.

TL;DR: The effect of experimental fertilization on the vegetation, with the ribwort plantain as the focal plant, and on higher trophic levels on differently managed grasslands throughout Germany, and the relationships between fertilization, surrounding vegetation and the tritrophic system were measured.