Sustainable Grassland Systems

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The working group aims to develop strategies for a sustainable and balanced use of grassland systems by studying their functioning from mechanistic pot experiments, to plot, field and landscape scale. A focus is set on heterogeneous lowlands – supported by spatial proximity with EIP Paulinenaue – but studies expand over environmental gradients throughout Germany. The functional characterization of plant species and communities as elements linking above- and belowground biodiversity and ecosystem services under different management regimes is complemented with remote sensing, aiming to study grassland functioning from the finest root up to the landscape level.

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Increasing plant species richness by seeding has marginal effects on ecosystem functioning in agricultural grasslands

Freitag, M., Hölzel, N., Neuenkamp, L., van der Plas, F., Manning, P., Abrahão, A., Bergmann, J., Boeddinghaus, R., Bolliger, R., Hamer, U., Kandeler, E., Kleinebecker, T., Knorr, K.-H., Marhan, S., Neyret, M., Prati, D., Le Provost, G., Saiz, H., van Kleunen, M., Schäfer, D., Klaus, V. H. (2023)

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The importance of trait selection in ecology

Weigelt, A., Mommer, L., Andraczek, K., Iversen, C. M., Bergmann, J., Bruelheide, H., Freschet, G. T., Guerrero-Ramírez, N. R., Kattge, J., Kuyper, T. W., Laughlin, D. C., Meier, I. C., van der Plas, F., Poorter, H., Roumet, C., van Ruijven, J., Sabatini, F. M., Semchenko, M., Sweeney, C. J., Valverde-Barrantes, O. J., York, L. M., McCormack, M. L. (2023)

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