Unimodal relationship between three-dimensional soil heterogeneity and plant species diversity in experimental mesocosms

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[2] Kalyuzhny M(1999)Interspecific differences in above-ground growth patterns result in spatial and temporal partitioning of light among species in a tall-grass meadow J Ecol 87 583-597

[3] Moreno-Rueda G(2015)Environmental heterogeneity has a weak effect on diversity during community assembly in tallgrass prairie Ecol Monogr 86 94-106

[4] Pizarro M(2014)Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation Nature 508 517-520

[5] Kadmon R(2013)Soil heterogeneity generated by plant–soil feedbacks has implications for species recruitment and coexistence J Ecol 101 277-286

[6] Anten NPR(1980)The mineral nutrition of wild plants Annu Rev Ecol Syst 11 233-260

[7] Hirose T(2016)Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities J Ecol 104 899-910

[8] Baer SG(2017)Light asymmetry explains the effect of nutrient enrichment on grassland diversity Ecol Lett 20 60-69

[9] Blair JM(2006)Plant species richness and environmental heterogeneity in a mountain landscape: effects of variability and spatial configuration Ecography 29 573-584

[10] Collins SL(2011)Resource heterogeneity, soil fertility, and species diversity: effects of clonal species on plant communities Am Nat 177 574-588

[1] Allouche O(2012)Area-heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities Proc Natl Acad Sci 109 17495-17500

[2] Kalyuzhny M(1999)Interspecific differences in above-ground growth patterns result in spatial and temporal partitioning of light among species in a tall-grass meadow J Ecol 87 583-597

[3] Moreno-Rueda G(2015)Environmental heterogeneity has a weak effect on diversity during community assembly in tallgrass prairie Ecol Monogr 86 94-106

[4] Pizarro M(2014)Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation Nature 508 517-520

[5] Kadmon R(2013)Soil heterogeneity generated by plant–soil feedbacks has implications for species recruitment and coexistence J Ecol 101 277-286

[6] Anten NPR(1980)The mineral nutrition of wild plants Annu Rev Ecol Syst 11 233-260

[7] Hirose T(2016)Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities J Ecol 104 899-910

[8] Baer SG(2017)Light asymmetry explains the effect of nutrient enrichment on grassland diversity Ecol Lett 20 60-69

[9] Blair JM(2006)Plant species richness and environmental heterogeneity in a mountain landscape: effects of variability and spatial configuration Ecography 29 573-584

[10] Collins SL(2011)Resource heterogeneity, soil fertility, and species diversity: effects of clonal species on plant communities Am Nat 177 574-588