The BEFmod experiment was established in 2014 on the VIP plots of site A and site B. In the last four rows of trees, five treatments (à 16 trees in 4 rows x 4 columns) were set up: control, no-weeding, insecticides, fungicides, phosphorous fertili...

This is an addition to the Paperproposal 204 (http://china.befdata.biow.uni-leipzig.de/paperproposals/204) by D. Eichenberg, A. C. Lang and C. Wirth. Here I provide (in the Excel freeformat sheet attached belwo) the details on which Data will b...

Results of the terrain and landform analysis on site B (EcoScape approach)

Leaf decomposition plays an important role in ecosystem biogeochemistry. Nutrients are released from decomposing litter by leaching of soluble substances and the break-down by animals, microbes and fungi, and will thus become again available for u...

Trophobiosis are common tri-trophic trophic interaction between plants, sap-sucking insects and ants. While sap-sucking insects directly exploit plants in a cryptic form of herbivory, the ants establish a mutualistic relationship with the sap-suck...

Resident phytometers are trees from within the general planting scheme but of which the seed family is known. In summer 2012 we measured several growth parameters and estimated herbivory on 12 phytometer species: Alniphyllum fortunei, Castanopsis ...