The study of spatial genetic structure (SGS) can provide an understanding of the key processes and factors involved in the maintenance of viable populations. Within plant populations SGS is mainly determined by the interplay between gene flow by s...

Several field studies have shown the positive effect of diversity on primary productivity in grasslands. However, little is known about forest ecosystems, the most productive vegetation type on Earth and responsible for more than 50 % of global ne...

Trap nests are a well-established tool to monitor cavity-nesting Hymenoptera and to assess parasitism rates. Despite only 5-10% of all non-parasitoid solitary bee and wasp species are colonizing trap nests, it has been show that the cavity-nesting...

Samples of insects and spiders directly from randomly selected saplings of the Comparative Study Plots, obtained with beating tray sampling. Enables to test to what extent woody plant diversity affects the abundance, species composition and divers...

Wood mechanic traits including coefficient of variation: Wood attributes from a chinese book, digitized by Z2 (Hoffmann).

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...