Nonlinearity of root trait relationships and the root economics spectrum [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 Kong et al. use a global trait dataset of 800 plant species to examine the root economics spectrum in relation to root diameter, tissue density and root nitrogen concentration.
Deliang Kong +8 more
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The Economics Spectrum Drives Root Trait Strategies in Mediterranean Vegetation [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Extensive research efforts are devoted to understand fine root trait variation and to confirm the existence of a belowground root economics spectrum (RES) from acquisitive to conservative root strategies that is analogous to the leaf economics spectrum ...
Enrique G. de la Riva +8 more
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Interactions Between Root Traits and Fungal Functional Guilds Across the Root Economics Spectrum [PDF]
PlantsSoil fungi play a pivotal role in maintaining ecosystem functions and regulating plant health. Although plant root traits can significantly impact the abundance and diversity of different fungal groups, the mechanism by which plant root strategies drive ...
Xinyi Chen +7 more
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Author Correction: Nonlinearity of root trait relationships and the root economics spectrum [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Deliang Kong +8 more
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Future direction of searching for root economics spectrum: focusing on the fibrous roots “absorptive unit” [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2019 As one of the trait‐based approaches, leaf economics spectrum (LES) has led to significant advances in plant ecology; however, hypothetical root economics spectrum (RES) which is even more important than the LES aboveground is still less well understood.
Xinliang Shao +4 more
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Linking Aboveground Traits to Root Traits and Local Environment: Implications of the Plant Economics Spectrum [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 The plant economics spectrum proposes that ecological traits are functionally coordinated and adapt along environmental gradients. However, empirical evidence is mixed about whether aboveground and root traits are consistently linked and which ...
Yong Shen +5 more
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The genetic basis of the root economics spectrum in a perennial grass. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Significance Plants have evolved diverse root form and function across the Earth’s environment, yet only certain types of trait combinations have proved evolutionarily viable. Using a genetic mapping population of the native perennial switchgrass, our study demonstrates multiple genetic linkages among root morphology, growth, and turnover ...
Chen W, Wu Y, Fritschi FB, Juenger TE.
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Economic strategies of plant absorptive roots vary with root diameter [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2016 Plant roots typically vary along a dominant ecological axis, the root economics spectrum, depicting a tradeoff between resource acquisition and conservation.
D. L. Kong +6 more
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Absorptive Roots Prioritize Chemical over Morphological Investment Under Litter Addition in a Qinling Pine–Oak Mixed Forest [PDF]
PlantsThe root economics spectrum predicts coordinated trait shifts to a heterogeneous soil environment, yet how roots strategically respond to litter-driven nutrient patches is not fully understood.
Xuehong Ma +6 more
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Root Branching Is a Leading Root Trait of the Plant Economics Spectrum in Temperate Trees [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 Global vegetation models use conceived relationships between functional traits to simulate ecosystem responses to environmental change. In this context, the concept of the leaf economics spectrum (LES) suggests coordinated leaf trait variation, and separates species which invest resources into short-lived leaves with a high expected energy return rate ...
Ina C Meier, Meier Ina C
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