Biomass removal promotes plant diversity after short-term de-intensification of managed grasslands

• Karl Andraczek ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karl Andraczek, Alexandra Weigelt, Fons van der Plas

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

  * E-mail: karl.andraczek@uni-leipzig.de

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2711-3326

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• Alexandra Weigelt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karl Andraczek, Alexandra Weigelt, Fons van der Plas

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Judith Hinderling ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JH, LK and DP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Lena Kretz ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JH, LK and DP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Daniel Prati ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JH, LK and DP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Fons van der Plas

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karl Andraczek, Alexandra Weigelt, Fons van der Plas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

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