Greenhouse experiment

This summer our PhD student Slendy conducted a greenhouse experiment growing ~50 grassland plant species in different soil moisture levels and measuring their aboveground and belowground traits. The experiment ran for two months and included, for example, planting ~3500 tiny seedlings, washing 500 root samples, and measuring 1500 leaves. Slendy had help from her supervisors Carlos and Riin as well as from other members of the Macroecology workgroup and Landscape Biodiversity workgroup. The experiment is part of Slendy's PhD project to explore how plant communities with different levels of functional redundancy are assembled at different resource availability levels.