A problem for biodiversity-productivity studies: how to compare the productivity of multispecific plant mixtures to that of monocultures?

E Garnier, ML Navas, MP Austin, JM Lilley, RM Gifford - Acta Oecologica, 1997 - Elsevier
productive species in mixtures should reach for the mixture to be as productive as the most
productive … between the most productive monocuiture and the mixture was made up only by …

Positive biodiversityproductivity relationship due to increased plant density

E Marquard, A Weigelt, C Roscher, M Gubsch… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… We found that diversity-induced increases in productivity were … increases in productivity were
related to increases in plant size… in mixtures was the main driver of the positive biodiversity–…

Biodiversity and plant productivity in a model assemblage of plant species

S Naeem, K Håkansson, JH Lawton, MJ Crawley… - Oikos, 1996 - JSTOR
… Each of these assemblages was grown in a 7.5-1 pot (20 cm diam.) containing a loam/sand
mixture developed for this plant system. Each individual of each species was randomly …

Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes

FI Isbell, HW Polley, BJ Wilsey - Ecology letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
mixtures of grassland plants to test this hypothesis and identified the mechanisms involved.
Additionally, we tested whether biodiversity, productivity … We found that productivity was less …

Using plant traits to understand the contribution of biodiversity effects to annual crop community productivity

N Engbersen, L Stefan, RW Brooker… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
biodiversity effect, the CE and SE, express the difference in productivity between monocultures
and mixtures, … physical and plant characteristics between monocultures and mixtures. We …

Plant litter strengthens positive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships over time

WP Zhang, D Fornara, H Yang, RP Yu… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
… how diversity–productivity relationships may change over time and suggest that the
diversification of crop residue retention through increased residue diversity from plant mixtures will …

Selection for niche differentiation in plant communities increases biodiversity effects

D Zuppinger-Dingley, B Schmid, JS Petermann… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
… net biodiversity and complementarity effects for mixture types … group mixture types than for
monofunctional group mixture … that mixture test communities would have higher productivity

Changes in the abundance of grassland species in monocultures versus mixtures and their relation to biodiversity effects

E Marquard, B Schmid, C Roscher, E De Luca… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
… in the mean net biodiversity effect and whether … productive populations in plant mixtures we
calculated mean annual differences in the net biodiversity effect (averages across all mixtures

From selection to complementarity: shifts in the causes of biodiversityproductivity relationships in a long-term biodiversity experiment

J Fargione, D Tilman, R Dybzinski… - … of the Royal …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… To further address the mechanisms behind the biodiversity effects in this nitrogen (N)-limited
system (Tilman 1990), we examine the trends in plant tissue N. This allows us to test the …

Plant density affects measures of biodiversity effects

T Stachová, P Fibich, J Lepš - Journal of Plant Ecology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… yields of both monocultures and mixtures. As these and their … to quite positive in the
four-species mixture. Using Fox’s tripartite … follow the density-productivity relationship, called …