2016

Cortois, R., T. Schröder-Georgi, A. Weigelt, W. H. van der Putten, and G. B. De Deyn. 2016. Plant–soil feedbacks: Role of plant functional group and plant traits. Journal of Ecology 104:1608–1617. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12643

Craven, D., F. Isbell, P. Manning, J. Connolly, H. Bruelheide, A. Ebeling, et al. 2016. Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371:20150277. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0277

Dudenhöffer, J.-H., G. Pufal, C. Roscher, and A.-M. Klein. 2016. Plant density can increase invertebrate postdispersal seed predation in an experimental grassland community. Ecology and Evolution 6:3796–3807. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2039

Eisenhauer, N. 2016. Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms: Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of plant inputs increase soil biodiversity. Pedobiologia 59:175–177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2016.04.004

Eisenhauer, N., A. D. Barnes, S. Cesarz, D. Craven, O. Ferlian, F. Gottschall, et al. 2016. Biodiversity–ecosystem function experiments reveal the mechanisms underlying the consequences of biodiversity change in real world ecosystems. Journal of Vegetation Science 27:1061–1070. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12435

Fischer, F. M., A. J. Wright, N. Eisenhauer, A. Ebeling, C. Roscher, C. Wagg, et al. 2016. Plant species richness and functional traits affect community stability after a flood event. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371:20150276. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0276

González Macé, O., K. Steinauer, A. Jousset, N. Eisenhauer, and S. Scheu. 2016. Flood-induced changes in soil microbial functions as modified by plant diversity. PLOS ONE 11:e0166349. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166349

Gould, I. J., J. N. Quinton, A. Weigelt, G. B. De Deyn, and R. D. Bardgett. 2016. Plant diversity and root traits benefit physical properties key to soil function in grasslands. Ecology Letters 19:1140–1149. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12652

Guiz, J., H. Hillebrand, E. T. Borer, M. Abbas, A. Ebeling, A. Weigelt, et al. 2016. Long-term effects of plant diversity and composition on plant stoichiometry. Oikos 125:613–621. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.02504

Hennion, F., I. Litrico, I. V. Bartish, A. Weigelt, A. Bouchereau, and A. Prinzing. 2016. Ecologically diverse and distinct neighbourhoods trigger persistent phenotypic consequences, and amine metabolic profiling detects them. Journal of Ecology 104:125–137. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12505

Hertzog, L. R., A. Ebeling, S. T. Meyer, N. Eisenhauer, C. Fischer, A. Hildebrandt, et al. 2016a. High survival of lasius niger during summer flooding in a european grassland. PLOS ONE 11:e0152777. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152777

Hertzog, L. R., S. T. Meyer, W. W. Weisser, and A. Ebeling. 2016b. Experimental manipulation of grassland plant diversity induces complex shifts in aboveground arthropod diversity. PLOS ONE 11:e0148768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148768

Latz, E., N. Eisenhauer, B. C. Rall, S. Scheu, and A. Jousset. 2016. Unravelling linkages between plant community composition and the pathogen-suppressive potential of soils. Scientific Reports 6:23584. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep23584

Leimer, S., Y. Oelmann, N. Eisenhauer, A. Milcu, C. Roscher, S. Scheu, et al. 2016. Mechanisms behind plant diversity effects on inorganic and organic n leaching from temperate grassland. Biogeochemistry 131:339–353. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-016-0283-8

Lohier, T., F. Jabot, A. Weigelt, B. Schmid, and G. Deffuant. 2016. Predicting stochastic community dynamics in grasslands under the assumption of competitive symmetry. Journal of Theoretical Biology 399:53–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.03.043

Mellado-Vázquez, P. G., M. Lange, D. Bachmann, A. Gockele, S. Karlowsky, A. Milcu, et al. 2016. Plant diversity generates enhanced soil microbial access to recently photosynthesized carbon in the rhizosphere. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 94:122–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.11.012

Meyer, S. T., A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, L. Hertzog, H. Hillebrand, A. Milcu, et al. 2016. Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity. Ecosphere 7:e01619. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1619

Milcu, A., W. Eugster, D. Bachmann, M. Guderle, C. Roscher, A. Gockele, et al. 2016. Plant functional diversity increases grassland productivity-related water vapor fluxes: An ecotron and modeling approach. Ecology 97:2044–2054. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-1110.1

Niklaus, P. A., X. Le Roux, F. Poly, N. Buchmann, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, A. Weigelt, et al. 2016. Plant species diversity affects soil–atmosphere fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide. Oecologia 181:919–930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3611-8

Roscher, C., B. Schmid, O. Kolle, and E.-D. Schulze. 2016a. Complementarity among four highly productive grassland species depends on resource availability. Oecologia 181:571–582. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3587-4

Roscher, C., J. Schumacher, J. S. Petermann, A. J. F. Fergus, U. Gerighausen, S. G. Michalski, et al. 2016b. Convergent high diversity in naturally colonized experimental grasslands is not related to increased productivity. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 20:32–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2016.03.003

Schaller, J., C. Roscher, H. Hillebrand, A. Weigelt, Y. Oelmann, W. Wilcke, et al. 2016. Plant diversity and functional groups affect si and ca pools in aboveground biomass of grassland systems. Oecologia 182:277–286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3647-9

Schroeder-Georgi, T., C. Wirth, K. Nadrowski, S. T. Meyer, L. Mommer, and A. Weigelt. 2016. From pots to plots: Hierarchical trait-based prediction of plant performance in a mesic grassland. Journal of Ecology 104:206–218. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12489

Steinauer, K., A. Chatzinotas, and N. Eisenhauer. 2016a. Root exudate cocktails: The link between plant diversity and soil microorganisms? Ecology and Evolution 6:7387–7396. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2454

Steinauer, K., B. Jensen, T. Strecker, E. de Luca, S. Scheu, and N. Eisenhauer. 2016b. Convergence of soil microbial properties after plant colonization of an experimental plant diversity gradient. BMC Ecology 16:19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-016-0073-0

Strecker, T., O. G. Macé, S. Scheu, and N. Eisenhauer. 2016. Functional composition of plant communities determines the spatial and temporal stability of soil microbial properties in a long-term plant diversity experiment. Oikos 125:1743–1754. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.03181

Tiede, J., B. Wemheuer, M. Traugott, R. Daniel, T. Tscharntke, A. Ebeling, et al. 2016. Trophic and non-trophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment assessed by next-generation sequencing. PLOS ONE 11:e0148781. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148781

Venjakob, C., A.-M. Klein, A. Ebeling, T. Tscharntke, and C. Scherber. 2016. Plant diversity increases spatio-temporal niche complementarity in plant-pollinator interactions. Ecology and Evolution 6:2249–2261. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2026

Zuppinger-Dingley, D., D. F. B. Flynn, G. B. De Deyn, J. S. Petermann, and B. Schmid. 2016. Plant selection and soil legacy enhance long-term biodiversity effects. Ecology 97:918–928. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0599.1

Zytynska, S. E., S. T. Meyer, S. Sturm, W. Ullmann, M. Mehrparvar, and W. W. Weisser. 2016. Secondary bacterial symbiont community in aphids responds to plant diversity. Oecologia 180:735–747. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3488-y