Table 1 Thousand-seed mass (TSM) of the sown species and the total mass and number of seeds sown in each treatment.

From: Both mass ratio effects and community diversity drive biomass production in a grassland experiment

  

Treatments

TSM (g)

Forb

G5F25

G15F15

G25F5

Grass

Grass sowing (kg/ha)

 

5

15

25

30

Forb sowing (kg/ha)

 

 30

25

15

5

Grass sowing (seed/m2)*

 

1500

4400

7300

8800

Forb sowing (seed/m2)*

 

5200

4300

2600

900

Grass sowing

Festuca rupicola

0.342

1460

4382

7304

8764

Forb sowing

Achillea collina

0.052

939

783

470

157

Bunias orientalis

33.444

10

8

5

2

Carthamus lanatus

15.141

5

4

2

1

Centaurea jacea ssp. angustifolia

1.055

8

7

4

1

Centaurea scabiosa

4.859

95

79

47

16

Centaurea solstitialis

1.162

68

57

34

11

Filipendula vulgaris

0.681

183

153

92

31

Galium verum

0.337

906

755

453

151

Hypericum perforatum

0.108

1432

1194

716

239

Knautia arvensis

3.137

18

15

9

3

Lotus corniculatus

1.091

33

27

16

5

Lycopsis arvensis

6.109

7

6

3

1

Pimpinella saxifraga

0.567

285

238

143

48

Plantago media

0.240

341

284

170

57

Rapistrum perenne

6.677

58

49

29

10

Salvia nemorosa

0.842

643

536

322

107

Silene vulgaris

0.703

132

110

66

22

  1. Seed numbers were calculated using the sown mass and the thousand-seed mass of the species. *Rounded to the nearest hundred. Notations: ‘G’ and ‘F’ in treatment names stand for ‘Grass’ and ‘Forb’, respectively.