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@INPROCEEDINGS{Weidlich:172253,
      author       = {Weidlich, Emanuela and Conradi, Timo and von Gillhaussen,
                      Philipp and Kollmann, Johannes and Temperton, Vicky},
      title        = {{E}xploring plant community assembly for its potential for
                      grassland restoration: the role of traits and functional
                      diversity},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2014-05741},
      year         = {2014},
      abstract     = {Exploring plant community assembly for its potential for
                      grassland restoration: the role of traits and functional
                      diversity in assembling grasslandsEmanuela Weidlich 1, Timo
                      Conradi 2, Johannes Kollmann 2, Vicky M. Temperton 11 Plant
                      Sciences, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-2),
                      Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany2 Restoration Chair, TU
                      München, GermanyCommunity assembly has received much
                      attention in ecology and is a cornerstone of ecological
                      restoration. It is often studied within restoration contexts
                      but assembly processes as such have rarely been directly
                      implemented to aid restoration. In this poster we present a
                      range of different grassland experiments that address
                      ecological assembly within a restoration context. Our
                      collaborative research (between the Forschungszentrum
                      Jülich and the TU München) aims to improve grassland
                      biodiversity and productivity (for potential bioenergy use)
                      by using priority effects during assembly in mesic
                      grasslands as well as better understand how initial assembly
                      interacts with different abiotic conditions during
                      restoration to affect outcomes. • In a field experiment,
                      called the Priority Effect Experiment in Jülich (2012
                      –today) we are testing the long term influence of priority
                      effects on community development, where we sowed high and
                      low diversity mixtures and altered the sequence in which
                      plant functional types arrived in the system. Here we are
                      focussing on functional traits and how they affect any
                      priority effects of who arrives first. Initial results show
                      a strong priority effect of sowing legumes before other
                      forbs and grasses on aboveground and belowground
                      productvity. • Near München, the field experiment called
                      the N and Water Assembly Experiment is testing the relative
                      role of niche-based and neutral factors during the initial
                      assembly of restored calcareous grasslands along
                      environmental gradients. In August 2014 we plan to also test
                      the role of nurse plant facilitation during the assembly of
                      this grassland across the water and N gradients. •
                      Germination and seedling traits of all species in both field
                      experiments have been screened to use as a guide for further
                      controlled experiments and to compare to trait values in
                      species growing in both field experiments. • Planned
                      controlled experiments testing how interactions between
                      different species change depending on which species with
                      which traits arrive earlier are also highlighted.This
                      overall approach will help us to understand the mechanisms
                      of priority effects in grassland communities in order to be
                      able to use this knowledge in improving grassland
                      restoration as well as providing sufficient biomass for land
                      managers.},
      month         = {Sep},
      date          = {2014-09-08},
      organization  = {Jahrestagung GfÖ 2014, Hildesheim
                       (Germany), 8 Sep 2014 - 12 Sep 2014},
      subtyp        = {Other},
      cin          = {IBG-2},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
      pnm          = {89582 - Plant Science (POF2-89582)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-89582},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/172253},
}