Soil biodiversity and ecosystem functions in grasslands: Is more always better?
Contributors
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University of Antwerp
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Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre
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Università di Camerino
- 4. Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Universität Greifswald
- 6. Natuurpunt Antwerpen Noord & Kempen
Description
This is a dataset linked to the study "Soil biodiversity and ecosystem functions in grasslands: Is more always better?"
The study was based on five experimental (pot) grassland systems with soil substrate, soil inocula, and plant communities representative of five European grasslands located in Belgium, Germany, Hungary (2), and Italy. Each grassland system contained four biodiversity levels (High, Mid, Low, and Min) obtained by selective filtering of field soil from the respective grasslands by size. For each grassland system and treatment, there were 10 replicates, resulting in 200 pots.
The dataset contains information on plant biomass (total shoot, litter, grass, forb, root), plant diversity, soil total carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), dissolved organic C (DOC) and N (DON), microbial C and N, soil and microbial ammonium, microbial respiration, plant C and N, soil pH, and the relative abundance of bacterial parasites and pathogens, bacterial chemoheterotrophs, nitrifiers, ureolysers, N-fixers, plant pathogenic fungi, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
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Funding
- Research Foundation - Flanders
- 1282623N