2010 – The Jena Experiment

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Eisenhauer, N., M. Ackermann, S. Gass, M. Klier, V. Migunova, N. Nitschke, et al. 2010a. Nematicide impacts on nematodes and feedbacks on plant productivity in a plant diversity gradient. Acta Oecologica 36:477–483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2010.06.004

Eisenhauer, N., H. Beßler, C. Engels, G. Gleixner, M. Habekost, A. Milcu, et al. 2010b. Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis. Ecology 91:485–496. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-2338.1

Eisenhauer, N., O. Butenschoen, S. Radsick, and S. Scheu. 2010c. Earthworms as seedling predators: Importance of seeds and seedlings for earthworm nutrition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42:1245–1252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.04.012

Eisenhauer, N., V. Hörsch, J. Moeser, and S. Scheu. 2010d. Synergistic effects of microbial and animal decomposers on plant and herbivore performance. Basic and Applied Ecology 11:23–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2009.11.001

Eisenhauer, N., A. C. W. Sabais, F. Schonert, and S. Scheu. 2010e. Soil arthropods beneficially rather than detrimentally impact plant performance in experimental grassland systems of different diversity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42:1418–1424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.05.001

Gubsch, M., N. Buchmann, B. Schmid, E.-D. Schulze, A. Lipowsky, and C. Roscher. 2010. Differential effects of plant diversity on functional trait variation of grass species. Annals of Botany 107:157–169. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcq220

König, S., T. Wubet, C. F. Dormann, S. Hempel, C. Renker, and F. Buscot. 2010. Taqman real-time pcr assays to assess arbuscular mycorrhizal responses to field manipulation of grassland biodiversity: Effects of soil characteristics, plant species richness, and functional traits. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76:3765. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02951-09

Milcu, A., E. Thebault, S. Scheu, and N. Eisenhauer. 2010. Plant diversity enhances the reliability of belowground processes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42:2102–2110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.08.005

Nitschke, N., A. Ebeling, T. Rottstock, C. Scherber, C. Middelhoff, S. Creutzburg, et al. 2010. Time course of plant diversity effects on centaurea jacea establishment and the role of competition and herbivory. Journal of Plant Ecology 3:109–121. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtp036

Petermann, J. S., A. J. F. Fergus, C. Roscher, L. A. Turnbull, A. Weigelt, and B. Schmid. 2010a. Biology, chance, or history? The predictable reassembly of temperate grassland communities. Ecology 91:408–421. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-2304.1

Petermann, J. S., C. B. Müller, C. Roscher, A. Weigelt, W. W. Weisser, and B. Schmid. 2010b. Plant species loss affects life-history traits of aphids and their parasitoids. PLOS ONE 5:e12053. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012053

Petermann, J. S., C. B. Müller, A. Weigelt, W. W. Weisser, and B. Schmid. 2010c. Effect of plant species loss on aphid–parasitoid communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:709–720. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01674.x

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Sauheitl, L., B. Glaser, M. Dippold, K. Leiber, and A. Weigelt. 2010. Amino acid fingerprint of a grassland soil reflects changes in plant species richness. Plant and Soil 334:353–363. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-010-0387-1

Scherber, C., N. Eisenhauer, W. W. Weisser, B. Schmid, W. Voigt, M. Fischer, et al. 2010a. Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment. Nature 468:553–556. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09492

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Scherber, C., P. N. Mwangi, M. Schmitz, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, H. Beßler, C. Engels, et al. 2010c. Biodiversity and belowground interactions mediate community invasion resistance against a tall herb invader. Journal of Plant Ecology 3:99–108. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtq003

Scherling, C., C. Roscher, P. Giavalisco, E.-D. Schulze, and W. Weckwerth. 2010. Metabolomics unravel contrasting effects of biodiversity on the performance of individual plant species. PLOS ONE 5:e12569. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012569

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