The Jena Experiment
Scientific Investigators
About The Project:
The Jena Experiment is a long-term grassland biodiversity experiment established in 2002 (DFG FOR456/1451) with the major aim to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in the short-term and in the long-term. In the framework of the Jena Experiment we are involved in studying the development of the plant communities as well as the responses of individual plant species to plant community diversity. More recently, we have studied the role of evolutionary processes for plant species responses to plant community diversity, plant history and soil history. The focus of our current research is the study of plant diversity effects on the temporal dynamics of plant nutrient responses, including their stability as temporal long-term invariability, resistance during and recovery after environmental perturbations.