{"id":1333,"date":"2020-02-07T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenaexperiment.uni-jena.de\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2020-07-29T14:51:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T14:51:03","slug":"schaub-et-al-in-nature-communications-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/schaub-et-al-in-nature-communications-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Schaub et al in  Nature Communications: Plant diversity effects on forage quality, yield and revenues of semi-natural grasslands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Abstract:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1337\" width=\"293\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-7.png 964w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-7-300x223.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-7-768x570.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">In agricultural settings, plant diversity is often associated with low  biomass yield and forage quality, while biodiversity experiments  typically find the opposite. We address this controversy by assessing,  over 1 year, plant diversity effects on biomass yield, forage quality  (i.e. nutritive values), quality-adjusted yield (biomass yield\u2009\u00d7\u2009forage  quality), and revenues across different management intensities  (extensive to intensive) on subplots of a large-scale grassland  biodiversity experiment. Plant diversity substantially increased  quality-adjusted yield and revenues. These findings hold for a wide  range of management intensities, i.e., fertilization levels and cutting  frequencies, in semi-natural grasslands. Plant diversity was an  important production factor independent of management intensity, as it  enhanced quality-adjusted yield and revenues similarly to increasing  fertilization and cutting frequency. Consequently, maintaining and  reestablishing plant diversity could be a way to sustainably manage  temperate grasslands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1334\" width=\"289\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-6.png 932w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-6-300x229.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-6-768x586.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Reference<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Schaub, S., R. Finger, F. Leiber, S. Probst, M. Kreuzer, A. Weigelt, et al. 2020b. Plant diversity effects on forage quality, yield and revenues of semi-natural grasslands. <em>Nature Communications<\/em> <strong>11<\/strong>:768. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-14541-4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-14541-4<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: In agricultural settings, plant diversity is often associated with low biomass yield and forage quality, while biodiversity experiments typically find the opposite. We address this controversy by assessing, over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}