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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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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A plant economics spectrum in Mediterranean forests along environmental gradients: Is there coordination among leaf, stem and root traits? [PDF]
Journal of Vegetation Science, 2015 12 páginas..- 4 figuras.-- 70 referencias.--Supporting Information: Additional Supporting Information may be found in the online version of this article: Appendix S1. Species list.--Appendix S2. Functional traits list.--Appendix S3. Phylogenetic tree.--
Antem, N. P. +6 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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Does a whole plant conservation gradient exist within a subtropical broadleaved evergreen forest? [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceThe coordination between leaf and root traits is crucial for plants to synchronize their strategies for acquiring and utilizing above- and belowground resources.
Ailian Fan +19 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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Differing Trade-Off Patterns of Tree Vegetative Organs in a Tropical Cloud Forest
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Functional trait ecology demonstrates the significance of the leaf economics spectrum in understanding plants’ trade-off between acquisitive and conservative resource utilization.
Yuanyuan Yang +12 more
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Rethinking the Plant Economics Spectrum for Annuals: A Multi-Species Study
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 The plant economics spectrum hypothesizes a correlation among resource-use related traits along one single axis, which determines species’ growth rates and their ecological filtering along resource gradients. This concept has been mostly investigated and
Susanne Kurze +6 more
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Plants, 2022 Different organ morphologies determine the manner in which plants acquire resources, and the proportion of biomass of each organ is a critical driving force for organs to function in the future. Regrettably, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of
Taotao Wang +4 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 ...
Liese, Rebecca +2 more
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