Ecological Archives E087-055-A5

M. Zeiter, A. Stampfli, and D. M. Newbery. 2006. Recruitment limitation constrains local species richness and productivity in dry grassland. Ecology 87:942–951.

Appendix E. Performance of 22 species three years after sowing in 1998 and 1999 at Negrentino. Number of established individuals per plot in autumn (mean, n = 10). Mass per individual (sum of summer and autumn means) and annual phytomass per plot (sum over all individuals harvested in summer and autumn).

 

Number

 

Individual mass (mg)

 

Phytomass per plot (g)

 

1998

1999

 

1998

1999

 

1998

1999

                 

Agrostis capillaris

6

3

 

161

150

 

1.31

0.69

Anthyllis vulneraria

16

15

 

2057

1487

 

36.02

29.98

Asphodelus albus

11

17

 

18

14

 

0.23

0.25

Brachypodium pinnatum

6

6

 

32

36

 

0.17

0.23

Bromus erectus

78

80

 

72

102

 

6.17

9.82

Carex flacca

0

0

 

.

.

 

0

0

Centaurea nigrescens

30

29

 

646

456

 

18.15

12.49

Danthonia alpina

4

4

 

16

24

 

0.07

0.10

Dianthus carthusianorum

39

30

 

91

72

 

3.79

2.31

Dorycnium herbaceum

1

0

 

19

1

 

0.01

0.00

Galium rubrum

15

18

 

285

237

 

4.67

4.40

Helianthemum nummularium

9

12

 

151

201

 

1.44

2.72

Hypochaeris radicata

21

15

 

1038

473

 

23.47

7.86

Peucedanum oreoselinum

13

6

 

125

113

 

1.44

0.49

Phyteuma betonicifolium

5

1

 

1

0

 

0.01

0.00

Plantago lanceolata

9

10

 

509

567

 

4.42

7.78

Primula veris

15

22

 

3

7

 

0.04

0.19

Rhinanthus alectorolophus

.

.

 

435

.

 

1.02

0

Sanguisorba minor

8

6

 

76

84

 

0.59

0.57

Scabiosa columbaria

26

15

 

666

637

 

16.84

10.03

Silene nutans

17

12

 

13

20

 

0.29

0.36

Thalictrum minus

8

14

 

2

7

 

0.02

0.12



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