Biodiversity for multifunctional grasslands: equal productivity in high-diversity low-input and low-diversity high-input systems

Modern grassland management seeks to provide many ecosystem services and experimental studies in resource-poor grasslands have shown a positive relationship between plant species richness and a variety of ecosystem functions. Thus, increasing species richness might help to enhance multifunctionality...

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Main Authors: A. Weigelt, W. W. Weisser, N. Buchmann, M. Scherer-Lorenzen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-08-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/6/1695/2009/bg-6-1695-2009.pdf