No evidence of complementary water use along a plant species richness gradient in temperate experimental grasslands.

No evidence of complementary water use along a plant species richness gradient in temperate experimental grasslands.

Niche complementarity in resource use has been proposed as a key mechanism to explain the positive effects of increasing plant species richness on ecosystem processes, in particular on primary productivity. Since hardly any information is available for niche complementarity in water use, we tested t...

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Main Authors: Dörte Bachmann, Annette Gockele, Janneke M Ravenek, Christiane Roscher, Tanja Strecker, Alexandra Weigelt, Nina Buchmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4294640?pdf=render

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