Core project 5: Plants

核心项目5“植物”将继续为其他核心项目和贡献项目提供重要的背景信息，并支持联合多地点实验的维护。因此，我们将继续监测所有草地保护区内的生产力，以及所有森林和草地保护区内维管植物物种的组成和多样性。我们还将评估森林灌丛土壤种子库的组成和多样性。我们将在新的草地多点实验中进一步监测植物组成和多样性、单个物种丰度和生产力，以及在新的多点森林实验中监测草本下层植被的组成、多样性和生产力以及土壤种子库。总的来说，我们的比较和实验工作将提供与植物有关的数据和知识，以了解土地利用对植被组成、多样性和生产力的长期变化的影响，以及与土地利用变化有关的个别物种的趋势。

The Core Project 5 «Plants» will continue to provide important background information for the other core and contributing projects and support the maintenance of the joint multi-site experiments. Hence, we will continue the monitoring of productivity on all grassland EPs and the composition and diversity of vascular plant species in all forest and grassland EPs. We will also assess the composition and diversity of the soil seed bank in forest EPs. We will further monitor plant composition and diversity, the abundance of individual species and productivity in the new multi-site experiments in grasslands as well as composition, diversity and productivity of the herbaceous understorey vegetation and the soil seed bank in the new multi-site forest experiment. Overall our comparative and experimental work will provide plant-related data and knowledge on land-use effects on long-term changes in vegetation composition, diversity and productivity and on trends of individual species in relation to changes in land use.