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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Plant diversity influences plant volatile emission with varying effects at the species and community levels.

Pamela Medina-van Berkum, Cynthia Albracht, Maximilian Bröcher, Marcel Dominik Solbach, Gideon Stein, Michael Bonkowski, François Buscot, Anna Heintz-Buschart, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer and 6 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Pamela Medina-van BerkumDepartment of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7438-1454
Cynthia AlbrachtBiosystems Data Analysis, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1000 BE, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8779-3749
Maximilian BröcherPopulation Ecology Group, Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, University of Jena, Jena 07743, Germany.
Marcel Dominik SolbachTerrestrial Ecology Group, Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Cologne 50674, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7073-7428
Gideon SteinComputer Vision Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Jena, Jena 07743, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2735-1842
Michael BonkowskiTerrestrial Ecology Group, Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Cologne 50674, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2656-1183
François BuscotDepartment Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle 06120, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2364-0006
Anna Heintz-BuschartBiosystems Data Analysis, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1000 BE, The Netherlands.
Anne EbelingPopulation Ecology Group, Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, University of Jena, Jena 07743, Germany.
Nico EisenhauerExperimental Interaction Ecology, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0371-6720
Tarek S El-MadanyField experiments and instrumentation, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena 07445, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0726-7141
Yuanyuan HuangExperimental Interaction Ecology, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Karl KueblerField experiments and instrumentation, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena 07445, Germany.
Sebastian T MeyerTerrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Munich 85350, Germany.
Jonathan GershenzonDepartment of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1812-1551
Sybille B UnsickerDepartment of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 432642583Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) EB555/6-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Ei 862/29-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) FOR5000Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) FZT 118 202548816Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ME5474/1-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) UN276/4-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies have investigated the interactions between plants through competition and resource sharing to understand the mechanisms behind the positive effects of plant diversity on productivity. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are important info-chemicals in plant-plant interactions, but they have so far rarely been considered in this context. Here, we measured VOC emissions at the community scale and for one species (

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BiodiversityPlantagoPlantsVolatile Organic CompoundsEcosystemPlant LeavesVolatile Organic CompoundsBiodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF)chemodiversityherbivoryPlantago lanceolataplant–plant communication

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PMID41538247
PMCPMC12818445

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