
A tale of two sites
IDENT Freiburg <http://www.geobotanik.uni-freiburg.de/Forschung/IDENT?set_language=en> SIDE <http://jiliang.forestry.wvu.edu/research/ferc/side> Both sites are similar in so many ways. They are scientific experiments aimed at disentangling the biodiversity-ecosystem productivity relationship. Similar setup, similar age, and both are in the TreeDivNet, a global network of tree diversity experiments <http://www.treedivnet.ugent.be/>. Furthermore, both are very,very expensive to