JenaTron - An Experimental Approach to Study the Effects of Plant History and Soil History on Grassland Ecosystem Functioning

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March 21st, 2025

10.3791/67496-v

March 21st, 2025

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Anna-Maria Madaj¹^,² , Yuanyuan Huang¹^,² , Anne Ebeling³ , Lisa Ertel¹^,² , Alban Gebler¹^,² , Gerd Gleixner¹^,⁴^,⁵ , Jes Hines¹^,² , Christiane Roscher¹^,⁶ , Alexandra Weigelt¹^,² , Cynthia Albracht⁷^,⁸^,⁹ , Angelos Amyntas¹^,¹⁰ , Leonardo Bassi¹^,² , Ana Elizabeth Bonato Asato¹^,² , Michael Bonkowski¹¹^,¹² , Maximilian Bröcher³ , François Buscot¹^,⁸ , Francesca De Giorgi¹^,⁶ , Yuri Pinheiro Alves de Souza¹³^,¹⁴ , Van Cong Doan¹^,¹⁰ , Walter Durka¹^,¹⁵ , Anna Heintz-Buschart⁷ , Justus Hennecke¹^,² , Markus Lange⁴ , Pamela Medina-van Berkum¹⁶ , Sebastian Tobias Meyer¹⁴ , Sören Krawczyk¹^,² , Akanksha Rai⁴ , Thomas Reitz¹^,⁸ , Christian Ristok¹^,² , Stefan Scheu¹⁷^,¹⁸ , Michael Schloter¹³^,¹⁴ , Stefanie Schulz¹³ , Marcel Dominik Solbach¹¹ , Sybille Barbara Unsicker¹⁶^,¹⁹ , Nico Eisenhauer¹^,²

¹German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, ²Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, ³Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, ⁴Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, ⁵Institute for Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, ⁶Department Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), ⁷Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, ⁸Department Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), ⁹Institute Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology, Julius Kühn-Institute, ¹⁰Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, ¹¹Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, ¹²Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne, ¹³Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, ¹⁴School of Life Science, Technical University Munich - TUM, ¹⁵Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), ¹⁶Department of Biochemistry, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, ¹⁷JFB Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, ¹⁸Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use, University of Göttingen, ¹⁹Botanical Institute, Plant-Environment-Interactions Group, Kiel University

Here we present a study established in the iDiv Ecotron, terrestrial mesocosm chambers with controlled environmental conditions above- and below-ground, to study the independent and interactive effects of plant history and soil history on ecosystem functioning of grassland communities along a plant diversity gradient.