Plant productivity and belowground resource partitioning in gradients of tropical land-use intensity and tree species diversity (B04)

• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
• Term: from 2012 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192626868

The project measures plant biomass at the landscape scale and relates it to above- and belowground plant traits for analysing leaf, wood and root economics spectra using the EFForTS trait database. Root competition in the Oil Palm Biodiversity Enrichment Experiment is analysed with a mechanistic approach. In addition, the existing multi-year record of productivity data in the EFForTS plots is extended to a 10-yr time series of NPP and NEP with the aim to analyse inter-annual productivity fluctuation in dependence on climate variation and system diversity and complexity.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Heads: Dr. Dietrich Hertel, until 12/2015; Dr. Martyna Kotowska, since 1/2020; Professor Dr. Christoph Leuschner