Talks from the Nilex meeting in Leipzig, February 2013.

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...

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

Based on a comprehensive dataset of spiders recorded from the BEF sites, we tested the direct (potentially non-trophic) and indirect (via trophic cascades) links between tree diversity and arthropod predator diversity by deconstructing the relatio...

This research is done to quantifiy individual tree growth and mortality within and among different species in the comparative study plots. Local neighbourhood interactions are analysed by the means of competition indices. Questions are: (a) does d...