Genetic Identity Affects Performance of Species in Grasslands of Different Plant Diversity: An Experiment with Lolium perenne Cultivars | Zendy

Christiane Roscher | Zendy; Jens Schumacher | Zendy; Wolfgang W. Weisser | Zendy; ErnstDetlef Schulze | Zendy

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Genetic Identity Affects Performance of Species in Grasslands of Different Plant Diversity: An Experiment with Lolium perenne Cultivars

Author(s) -

Christiane Roscher,

Jens Schumacher,

Wolfgang W. Weisser,

ErnstDetlef Schulze

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

annals of botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1095-8290

pISSN - 0305-7364

DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcn070

Subject(s) - lolium perenne , biology , biodiversity , genetic diversity , lolium , cultivar , plant community , agronomy , diversity (politics) , botany , ecosystem , ecology , poaceae , population , ecological succession , demography , sociology , anthropology

Recent biodiversity research has focused on ecosystem processes, but less is known about responses of populations of individual plant species to changing community diversity and implications of genetic variation within species. To address these issues, effects of plant community diversity on the performance of different cultivars of Lolium perenne were analysed.

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