Functional composition has stronger impact than species richness on carbon gain and allocation in experimental grasslands

• Christiane Roscher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physiological Diversity, UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Stefan Karlowsky,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

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• Alexandru Milcu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Montpellier European Ecotron (UPS 3248), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Montferrier sur-Lez, France, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (UMR 5175), CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France

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• Arthur Gessler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Dörte Bachmann,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Annette Jesch,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Markus Lange,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

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• Perla Mellado-Vázquez,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

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• Tanja Strecker,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation J.F. Blumbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Damien Landais,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Montpellier European Ecotron (UPS 3248), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Montferrier sur-Lez, France

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• Olivier Ravel,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Montpellier European Ecotron (UPS 3248), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Montferrier sur-Lez, France

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• Nina Buchmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Jacques Roy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Montpellier European Ecotron (UPS 3248), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Montferrier sur-Lez, France

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• Gerd Gleixner

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ggleix@bgc-jena.mpg.de

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4616-0953

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