The role of plant functional traits and plant interactions for plant community functioning, stability and dynamics, and processes at the ecosystem level

• Applicant: Privatdozentin Dr. Christiane Roscher
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
• Term: from 2010 to 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 173331006

• Final Report Year: 2016

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Publications

• A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity–productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Vol. 15. 2013, Issue 3, pp. 139-149.
  Roscher C., Schumacher J., Lipowsky A., Gubsch M., Weigelt A., Pompe S., Kolle O., Buchmann N., Schmid B., Schulze E.-D.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2013.02.004)
• What happens to the sown species if a biodiversity experiment is not weeded? Basic and Applied Ecology, Vol. 14. 2013, Issue 3, pp. 187-198.
  Roscher C., Fergus A.J.F., Petermann J.S., Buchmann N., Schmid B., Schulze E.-D.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2013.01.003)
• Different assembly processes drive shifts in species and functional composition in experimental grasslands varying in sown diversity and community history. PLoS One, Vol. 9. 2014, Issue 7: e101928.
  Roscher C., Schumacher J., Gerighausen U., Schmid B.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101928)
• Functional diversity of leaf nitrogen concentrations drives grassland carbon fluxes. Ecology Letters, Vol. 17. 2014, Issue 4, pp. 435-444.
  Milcu A., Roscher C., Gessler A., Bachmann D., Gockele A., Guderle M., Landais D., Piel C., Escape C., Devidal S., Ravel, O., Buchmann N., Gleixner G., Hildebrandt, A., Roy J.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12243)
• Plant diversity and community History shift colonization success from early- to mid-successional species. Journal of Plant Ecology, Vol. 8. 2015, Issue 3, pp. 231–241.
  Roscher C., Gerighausen U., Schmid B., Schulze E.-D.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtu011)
• Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors. Global Change Biology, Vol. 21. 2015, Issue 11, pp. 4076-4085.
  Thakur M.P., Milcu A., Manning P., Niklaus P.A., Roscher C., et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13011)
• Plasticity of functional traits of forb species in response to biodiversity. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Vol. 17. 2015, Issue 1, pp. 66-77.
  Lipowsky A., Roscher C., Schumacher J., Michalski S.G., Gubsch M., Buchmann N., Schulze E.-D., Schmid B.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2014.11.003)
• Functional composition rather than species richness determines root characteristics of experimental grasslands grown at different light and nutrient availability. Plant and Soil, Vol. 404. 2016, Issue 1–2, pp. 399–412.
  Siebenkäs A., Roscher C.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2853-x)