Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Plant diversity effects on forage quality, yield and revenues of semi-natural grasslands

  • Sergei Schaub,
  • Robert Finger,
  • Florian Leiber,
  • Stefan Probst,
  • Michael Kreuzer,
  • Alexandra Weigelt,
  • Nina Buchmann,
  • Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14541-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Higher plant diversity in agricultural settings is often associated with lower biomass yield and with lower forage quality. Here, Schaub et al. show positive effects of plant diversity on biomass yield, quality-adjusted yield and revenues in semi-natural grassland across a range of management intensities.