ellenberg: Hohenheim groundwater table experiment of Heinz Ellenberg
Description
Heinz Ellenberg's historically important work on changes in the abundances of a community of grass species growing along
experimental gradients of water table depth has played an important role in helping to identify the hydrological niches of
plant species in wet meadows. The dataset comprises measurements taken from two similar experiments conducted in 1952 and 1953.source
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043358Details
A detailed description of the data set can be found in the methods section of Hector et al. (2012).References
Ellenberg H (1953) Physiologisches und oekologisches Verhalten derselben
Pflanzenarten. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 65: 350-361
Ellenberg H (1954) Ueber einige Fortschritte der kausalen Vegetationskunde. Plant Ecology 5/6: 199-211.
Lieth H, Ellenberg H (1958) Konkurrenz und Zuwanderung von Wiesenpflanzen. Ein Beitrag zum Problem der Entwicklung neu
angelegten Gruenlands. Zeitschrift fuer Acker- und Pflanzenbau 106: 205-223.
Hector A, von Felten S, Hautier Y, Weilenmann M and Bruelheide H (2012) Effects
of Dominance and Diversity on Productivity along Ellenberg's Experimental Water Table Gradients. PlosOne 7: e43358