2008

Daßler, A., C. Roscher, V. M. Temperton, J. Schumacher, and E. D. Schulze. 2008. Adaptive survival mechanisms and growth limitations of small-stature herb species across a plant diversity gradient. Plant Biology 10:573–587. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2008.00073.x

Ebeling, A., A.-M. Klein, J. Schumacher, W. W. Weisser, and T. Tscharntke. 2008. How does plant richness affect pollinator richness and temporal stability of flower visits? Oikos 117:1808–1815. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.16819.x

Eisenhauer, N., S. Marhan, and S. Scheu. 2008a. Assessment of anecic behavior in selected earthworm species: Effects on wheat seed burial, seedling establishment, wheat growth and litter incorporation. Applied Soil Ecology 38:79–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2007.07.002

Eisenhauer, N., A. Milcu, A. C. W. Sabais, and S. Scheu. 2008b. Animal ecosystem engineers modulate the diversity–invasibility relationship. PLOS ONE 3:e3489. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003489

Eisenhauer, N., and S. Scheu. 2008a. Earthworms as drivers of the competition between grasses and legumes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40:2650–2659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.07.010

Eisenhauer, N., and S. Scheu. 2008b. Invasibility of experimental grassland communities: The role of earthworms, plant functional group identity and seed size. Oikos 117:1026–1036. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16812.x

Eisenhauer, N., D. Straube, and S. Scheu. 2008c. Efficiency of two widespread non-destructive extraction methods under dry soil conditions for different ecological earthworm groups. European Journal of Soil Biology 44:141–145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2007.10.002

Fischer, M., T. Rottstock, E. Marquard, C. Middelhoff, C. Roscher, V. M. Temperton, et al. 2008. The jena trial demonstrates the benefits of floristic diversity to pastures. Fourrages 195:275–286.

Habekost, M., N. Eisenhauer, S. Scheu, S. Steinbeiss, A. Weigelt, and G. Gleixner. 2008. Seasonal changes in the soil microbial community in a grassland plant diversity gradient four years after establishment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40:2588–2595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.06.019

Lorentzen, S., C. Roscher, J. Schumacher, E.-D. Schulze, and B. Schmid. 2008. Species richness and identity affect the use of aboveground space in experimental grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 10:73–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2007.12.001

Milcu, A., S. Partsch, C. Scherber, W. W. Weisser, and S. Scheu. 2008. Earthworms and legumes control litter decomposition in a plant diversity gradient. Ecology 89:1872–1882. https://doi.org/10.1890/07-1377.1

Roscher, C., J. Schumacher, W. W. Weisser, and E.-D. Schulze. 2008a. Genetic identity affects performance of species in grasslands of different plant diversity: An experiment with lolium perenne cultivars. Annals of Botany 102:113–125. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcn070

Roscher, C., S. Thein, B. Schmid, and M. Scherer-Lorenzen. 2008b. Complementary nitrogen use among potentially dominant species in a biodiversity experiment varies between two years. Journal of Ecology 96:477–488. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01353.x

Schmid, B., A. Hector, P. Saha, and M. Loreau. 2008. Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding. Journal of Plant Ecology 1:95–102. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtn011

Specht, J., C. Scherber, S. B. Unsicker, G. Köhler, and W. W. Weisser. 2008. Diversity and beyond: Plant functional identity determines herbivore performance. Journal of Animal Ecology 77:1047–1055. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01395.x

Steinbeiss, S., H. BeßLer, C. Engels, V. M. Temperton, N. Buchmann, C. Roscher, et al. 2008a. Plant diversity positively affects short-term soil carbon storage in experimental grasslands. Global Change Biology 14:2937–2949. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01697.x

Steinbeiss, S., V. M. Temperton, and G. Gleixner. 2008b. Mechanisms of short-term soil carbon storage in experimental grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40:2634–2642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.07.007

Thein, S., C. Roscher, and E.-D. Schulze. 2008. Effects of trait plasticity on aboveground biomass production depend on species identity in experimental grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology 9:475–484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2007.08.004

Weigelt, A., J. Schumacher, C. Roscher, and B. Schmid. 2008. Does biodiversity increase spatial stability in plant community biomass? Ecology Letters 11:338–347. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01145.x