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The role of biodiversity for element cycling and trophic interactions: an experimental approach in a grassland community
Christiane Roscher,Jens Schumacher,Jussi Baade,Wolfgang Wilcke,Gerd Gleixner,Wolfgang W. Weisser,Bernhard Schmid,Ernst Detlef Schulze +7 more
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The experimental design explicitly addresses criticisms provoked by previous biodiversity experiments, in particular, the choice of functional groups, the statistical separation of sampling versus complementarity effects, and testing for the effects of particular functional groups differ from previous experiments.About:
This article is published in Basic and Applied Ecology.The article was published on 2004-01-01. It has received 526 citations till now.read more
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Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward
Owen L. Petchey,Kevin J. Gaston +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that non-significant results have a range of alternate explanations that do not necessarily contradict positive effects of functional diversity, and areas for development of techniques used to measure functional diversity are suggested.
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Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage
Markus Lange,Nico Eisenhauer,Carlos A. Sierra,Holger Bessler,Christoph Engels,Robert I. Griffiths,Perla Griselle Mellado-Vázquez,Ashish A. Malik,Jacques Roy,Stefan Scheu,Sibylle Steinbeiss,Bruce C. Thomson,Susan E. Trumbore,Gerd Gleixner +13 more
TL;DR: It is shown that higher plant diversity increases rhizosphere carbon inputs into the microbial community resulting in both increased microbial activity and carbon storage, indicating that the increase in carbon storage is mainly limited by the integration of new carbon into soil and less by the decomposition of existing soil carbon.
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Effect of biochar amendment on soil carbon balance and soil microbial activity
TL;DR: In this paper, the behavior of biochar in arable and forest soil in a greenhouse experiment was investigated in order to prove that these amendments can increase carbon storage in soils, and the results suggest that residence times of biochars in soils can be manipulated with the aim to "design" the best possible biochar for a given soil type.
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Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment
Christoph Scherber,Nico Eisenhauer,Nico Eisenhauer,Wolfgang W. Weisser,Bernhard Schmid,Winfried Voigt,Markus Fischer,Markus Fischer,Ernst Detlef Schulze,Christiane Roscher,Christiane Roscher,Alexandra Weigelt,Alexandra Weigelt,Eric Allan,Holger Bessler,Michael Bonkowski,Nina Buchmann,François Buscot,Lars W. Clement,Anne Ebeling,Anne Ebeling,Christof Engels,Stefan Halle,Ilona Kertscher,Alexandra-Maria Klein,Alexandra-Maria Klein,Robert Koller,Stephan König,Esther Kowalski,Volker Kummer,Annely Kuu,Markus Lange,Dirk Lauterbach,Cornelius Middelhoff,V. D. Migunova,Alexandru Milcu,Ramona Müller,Stephan Partsch,Jana S. Petermann,Jana S. Petermann,Carsten Renker,Carsten Renker,Tanja Rottstock,Alexander C.W. Sabais,Stefan Scheu,Jens Schumacher,Vicky M. Temperton,Teja Tscharntke +47 more
TL;DR: It is shown that plant diversity effects dampen with increasing trophic level and degree of omnivory, and the results suggest that plant Diversity has strong bottom-up effects on multitrophic interaction networks, with particularly strong effects on lower trophIC levels.
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Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective
TL;DR: In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes recent advances in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research and explores the economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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Finding Groups in Data: An Introduction to Cluster Analysis
TL;DR: An electrical signal transmission system, applicable to the transmission of signals from trackside hot box detector equipment for railroad locomotives and rolling stock, wherein a basic pulse train is transmitted whereof the pulses are of a selected first amplitude and represent a train axle count.
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Finding Groups in Data
TL;DR: In this article, an electrical signal transmission system for railway locomotives and rolling stock is proposed, where a basic pulse train is transmitted whereof the pulses are of a selected first amplitude and represent a train axle count, and a spike pulse of greater selected amplitude is transmitted, occurring immediately after the axle count pulse to which it relates, whenever an overheated axle box is detected.
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Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity
TL;DR: Calculation of PD for different population subsets shows that protection of populations at either of two extremes of the geographic range of the group can significantly increase the phylogenetic diversity that is protected.
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges
Michel Loreau,Shahid Naeem,Pablo Inchausti,Jan Bengtsson,J. P. Grime,Andy Hector,David U. Hooper,Michael A. Huston,Dave Raffaelli,Bernhard Schmid,David Tilman,David A. Wardle +11 more
TL;DR: Larger numbers of species are probably needed to reduce temporal variability in ecosystem processes in changing environments and to determine how biodiversity dynamics, ecosystem processes, and abiotic factors interact.
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Consequences of changing biodiversity
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TL;DR: The large ecological and societal consequences of changing biodiversity should be minimized to preserve options for future solutions to global environmental problems.
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