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@ARTICLE{Daler:59299,
      author       = {Daßler, A. and Roscher, C. and Temperton, V. M. and
                      Schumacher, J. and Schulze, E.-D.},
      title        = {{A}daptive survival mechanisms and growth limitations of
                      small-stature herb species across a plant diversity
                      gradient},
      journal      = {Plant biology},
      volume       = {10},
      issn         = {1435-8603},
      address      = {Oxford [u.a.] :Wiley- Blackwell},
      publisher    = {Wiley-Blackwell - STM},
      reportid     = {PreJuSER-59299},
      pages        = {573 - 587},
      year         = {2008},
      note         = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
      abstract     = {Several biodiversity experiments have shown positive
                      effects of species richness on aboveground biomass
                      production, but highly variable responses of individual
                      species. The well-known fact that the competitive ability of
                      plant species depends on size differences among species,
                      raises the question of effects of community species richness
                      on small-stature subordinate species. We used experimental
                      grasslands differing in species richness (1-60 species) and
                      functional group richness (one to four functional groups) to
                      study biodiversity effects on biomass production and
                      ecophysiological traits of five small-stature herbs (Bellis
                      perennis, Plantago media, Glechoma hederacea, Ranunculus
                      repens and Veronica chamaedrys). We found that
                      ecophysiological adaptations, known as typical
                      shade-tolerance strategies, played an important role with
                      increasing species richness and in relation to a decrease in
                      transmitted light. Specific leaf area and leaf area ratio
                      increased, while area-based leaf nitrogen decreased with
                      increasing community species richness. Community species
                      richness did not affect daily leaf carbohydrate turnover of
                      V. chamaedrys and P. media indicating that these species
                      maintained efficiency of photosynthesis even in low-light
                      environments. This suggests an important possible mechanism
                      of complementarity in such grasslands, whereby smaller
                      species contribute to a better overall efficiency of light
                      use. Nevertheless, these species rarely contributed a large
                      proportion to community biomass production or achieved
                      higher yields in mixtures than expected from monocultures.
                      It seems likely that the allocation to aboveground plant
                      organs to optimise carbon assimilation limited the
                      investment in belowground organs to acquire nutrients and
                      thus hindered these species from increasing their
                      performance in multi-species mixtures.},
      keywords     = {Angiosperms: growth $\&$ development / Angiosperms:
                      physiology / Biomass / Carbohydrate Metabolism / Ecosystem /
                      Fabaceae: growth $\&$ development / Germany / Light /
                      Nitrogen: metabolism / Phenotype / Plant Leaves: growth $\&$
                      development / Plant Leaves: metabolism / Plant Shoots:
                      growth $\&$ development / Nitrogen (NLM Chemicals) / J
                      (WoSType)},
      cin          = {ICG-3},
      ddc          = {580},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)ICG-3-20090406},
      pnm          = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
      pid          = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
      shelfmark    = {Plant Sciences},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      pubmed       = {pmid:18761496},
      UT           = {WOS:000258288200006},
      doi          = {10.1111/j.1438-8677.2008.00073.x},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/59299},
}