Talks from the Nilex meeting in Leipzig, February 2013.

Third proposal of the BEF China project, details on the new experimental sites and the new joint experiments.

Meso- and macrofauna, species diversity, unlabelled Nilex

1. Despite recent advances in studies on trade-offs between plant defence traits, little is known about whether trade-offs reflect i) evolutionary constraints at the species level or ii) allocation constraints at the individual level. Here, we ask...

The BEFmod experiment is subject to a manipulation of resource supply and biotic impacts to examine whether Biodiversity-Ecosystem-Functioning (BEF) relationships may change under different environmental influences. BEFmod was conducted on subplot...

We studied eight tree species growing in a long gradient of local neighbourhood tree species richness (0 - 7 heterospecific neighbours). We assessed biodiversity effects on water availability by using a target tree’s twig wood carbon isotope compo...