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@ARTICLE{Weidlich:826124,
author = {Weidlich, Emanuela W. A. and von Gillhaussen, Philipp and
Delory, Benjamin M. and Blossfeld, Stephan and Poorter,
Hendrik and Temperton, Vicky M.},
title = {{T}he {I}mportance of {B}eing {F}irst: {E}xploring
{P}riority and {D}iversity {E}ffects in a {G}rassland
{F}ield {E}xperiment},
journal = {Frontiers in Functional Plant Ecology},
volume = {7},
issn = {1664-462X},
address = {Lausanne},
publisher = {Frontiers Media88991},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-00384},
pages = {2008},
year = {2017},
abstract = {Diversity of species and order of arrival can have strong
effects on ecosystem functioning and community composition,
but these two have rarely been explicitly combined in
experimental setups. We measured the effects of both species
diversity and order of arrival on ecosystem function and
community composition in a grassland field experiment, thus
combining biodiversity and assembly approaches. We studied
the effect of order of arrival of three plant functional
groups (PFGs: grasses, legumes, and non-leguminous forbs)
and of sowing low and high diversity seed mixtures (9 or 21
species) on species composition and aboveground biomass. The
experiment was set up in two different soil types.
Differences in PFG order of arrival affected the biomass,
the number of species and community composition. As
expected, we found higher aboveground biomass when sowing
legumes before the other PFGs, but this effect was not
continuous over time. We did not find a positive effect of
sown diversity on aboveground biomass (even if it influenced
species richness as expected). No interaction were found
between the two studied factors. We found that sowing
legumes first may be a good method for increasing
productivity whilst maintaining diversity of central
European grasslands, although the potential for long-lasting
effects needs further study. In addition, the mechanisms
behind the non-continuous priority effects we found need to
be further researched, taking weather and plant-soil
feedbacks into account.},
cin = {IBG-2},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
pnm = {582 - Plant Science (POF3-582)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-582},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000391328400001},
pubmed = {pmid:28119707},
doi = {10.3389/fpls.2016.02008},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/826124},
}