The overall objectives of Z2 are to ensure efficient data management and promote synergies in the processing of data among MultiTroph’s SPs through extensive services provided by training courses and the maintenance and ongoing development of the ...

By collecting data on community composition, consumption rates, body mass and elemental contents of arthropods as well as direct feeding links at higher trophic levels, we aim at predicting the responses of the multitrophic plant-herbivore-predato...

SP2 aims to test interrelations between trophic interactions, tree diversity, and soil erosion with multi-element stoichiometry of resources and different trophic levels (plants as primary producers and soil microorganisms as consumers). Additiona...

SP5 addresses key questions at the bridge of functional biodiversity, population and community ecology research in forests by combining information from observational and experimental approaches. Objectives are related to mechanisms of woody recru...

The overall objectives of SP1 are to characterize the bottom up effects of tree diversity on (1) the amount and diversity of naturally occurring dead wood to assess resource availability and quality for saproxylic insects and nutrient input into s...

The main objective of the New Integrated Litter Experiment (NILEx) is to quantify the role of biodiversity affecting plant litter decomposition and subsequent mineralisation. Furthermore the impact of litter cover on soil erosion under forest will...