TY - JOUR AU - AB - Biogeosciences, 6, 1695–1706, 2009 www.biogeosciences.net/6/1695/2009/ Biogeosciences © Author(s) 2009. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Biodiversity for multifunctional grasslands: equal productivity in high-diversity low-input and low-diversity high-input systems 1 1 2 2 A. Weigelt , W. W. Weisser , N. Buchmann , and M. Scherer-Lorenzen Institute of Ecology, University of Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, 07743 Jena, Germany Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zurich, Universitaetsstrasse 2, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Received: 25 February 2009 – Published in Biogeosciences Discuss.: 24 March 2009 Revised: 17 July 2009 – Accepted: 28 July 2009 – Published: 21 August 2009 Abstract. Modern grassland management seeks to pro- only a high diversity of plants and other organisms, but also vide many ecosystem services and experimental studies in ensure high forage yields, thus granting the basis for multi- resource-poor grasslands have shown a positive relationship functional managed grasslands. between plant species richness and a variety of ecosystem functions. Thus, increasing species richness might help to enhance multifunctionality in managed grasslands if the rela- 1 Introduction tionship between species richness and ecosystem functioning is equally valid in high-input grassland systems. Current and future management goals recognise the bene- We tested the relative effects TI - Biodiversity for multifunctional grasslands: equal productivity in high-diversity low-input and low-diversity high-input systems JF - Biogeosciences DO - 10.5194/bg-6-1695-2009 DA - 2009-08-21 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/biodiversity-for-multifunctional-grasslands-equal-productivity-in-high-B23MRevJtx DP - DeepDyve ER -