Code
01P00611
Duration
01 October 2011 → 01 October 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Plant biology
Keywords
beta diversity
conservation biology
forest understorey
community ecology
Project description
The study of biotic homogenization has become a central topic in ecological research. For forest understorey communities, changes in abiotic conditions or disturbances are cited to cause the homogenization, but plant-soil interactions at the much smaller scale are expected to be important as well. Therefore, we will asses the role of plant-soil feedbacks in the homogenization dynamics of forest understorey communties.