Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group
The Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group (NCP) performs research and education in the fields of nature conservation, systems ecology and plant population biology, focusing on the interactions between vegetation characteristics and ecosystem dynamics in temperate and boreal regions of the northern hemisphere.
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Root responses to nutrients and soil biota
Although a major part of plant biomass is underground, we know little about the contribution of different species to root biomass in multispecies communities.
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A central task of the Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group is to carry out ecological research aimed at gaining insight into processes at the ecosystem and population level, and use those insights to optimise nature conservation.
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Latest publications
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Root plasticity maintains growth of temperate grassland species (online first)
Plant and Soil (2013). - ISSN 0032-079X
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Evaluation of MODIS gross primary productivity for Africa using eddy covariance data
Remote Sensing of Environment 131 (2013). - ISSN 0034-4257 - p. 275 - 286.
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Specialists leave fewer descendants within a region than generalists
Global Ecology and Biogeography 22 (2013). - ISSN 1466-822X - p. 213 - 222.
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