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The Jena Experiment is a DFG-funded Research Unit (FOR 5000) that builds on a long history of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) research (FOR 456; FOR 1451). Despite broad consensus of the positive BEF relationship, the underlying ecological and evolutionary mechanisms have not been well understood. The Jena Experiment aims at filling this gap of knowledge by applying novel experimental and analytical approaches in one of the longest-running biodiversity experiments in the world (running since 2002). The central aim of the Research Unit is to uncover the mechanisms that determine BEF relationships in the short- and in the long-term.
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Deciphering nature’s climate shield: Plant diversity stabilises soil temperature December 6, 2023 11:33am - Based on a media release of Leipzig University A new study has revealed a natural… 
New publication from Eisenhauer et al. in npj Biodiversity: Reply: Functional similarity is more appropriate than functional redundancy November 8, 2023 9:43am - Replying to Felícia M. Fischer and Francesco de Bello npj Biodiversity https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-023-00029-z (2023) In our… 
New publication from Ristok et al. in Ecology and Evolution: Plant diversity and soil legacy independently affect the plant metabolome and induced responses following herbivory November 6, 2023 10:07am - Plant and soil biodiversity can have significant effects on herbivore resistance mediated by plant metabolites.… 
The Jena Experiment is seeking PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and technical staff October 24, 2023 7:28am - Within the DFG Research Unit FOR 5000 (Biotic interactions, community assembly, and eco-evolutionary dynamics as… 
Funding new research in the Jena Experiment – focus on ecosystem stability October 12, 2023 8:35am - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to fund Research Unit for another four years Joint media release from… 
New publication from Hennecke et al. in New Phytologist: Responses of rhizosphere fungi to the root economics space in grassland monocultures of different age September 22, 2023 10:19am - Recent studies on root traits have shown that there are two axes explaining trait variation…
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