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Mulching in lowland hay meadows drives an adaptive convergence of above- and below-ground traits reducing plasticity and improving biomass: A possible tool for enhancing phytoremediation

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
We aimed to understand the effect of mulching (i.e., cutting and leaving the crushed biomass to decompose in situ) on above- and below-ground plant functional traits and whether this practice may be a potential tool for enhancing the phytoremediation of ...
Michele Dalle Fratte, Antonio Montagnoli, Simone Anelli, Stefano Armiraglio, Peter Beatrice, Alex Ceriani, Elia Lipreri, Alessio Miali, Paolo Nastasio, Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini   +9 more
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Different Responses of Leaf and Root Economics Spectrum to Grazing Time at Community-Level in Desert Steppe, China

Science of The Total Environment, 2023
The plant economic spectrum can explain the trade-off strategies of vascular plants between resource acquisition and storage. Grazing can alter the plant functional characteristics of grassland ecosystems, resulting in a shift in plant resource acquisition strategies. Taking fenced grassland as a control, in this study we quantified six leaf traits and
Yao, Zhou, Hongbin, Ma, Qi, Lu, Jingli, Ma, Yan, Shen, Guohui, Wang   +5 more
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Absorptive root-multidimension strategy links air temperature and species distribution in a montane forest

Forest Ecosystems, 2023
Background: Air temperature affects absorptive root traits, which are closely related to species distribution. However, it is still unclear how air temperature regulates species distribution through changes in absorptive root traits.
Zuhua Wang, Min Liu, Long Li, Jianwei Hou, Xiaodong Zhang, Haibo Li, Chuandong Yang, Lilin Yang   +7 more
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Plant Nutrient Contents Rather Than Physical Traits Are Coordinated Between Leaves and Roots in a Desert Shrubland

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Although leaf economics spectrum (LES) has been extensively tested with regional and global datasets, the correlation among functional traits of desert plants remains largely unclear.
Xiaoyan Jiang, Xin Jia, Xin Jia, Shengjie Gao, Yan Jiang, Ningning Wei, Cong Han, Tianshan Zha, Tianshan Zha, Peng Liu, Peng Liu, Yun Tian, Shugao Qin, Shugao Qin   +13 more
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Vertical root distribution and biomass allocation along proglacial chronosequences in Central Switzerland

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2021
Investigating changes in belowground functional plant traits is an important step toward a better understanding of vegetation dynamics during primary succession.
Konrad Greinwald, Lea Adina Dieckmann, Carlotta Schipplick, Anne Hartmann, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Tobias Gebauer   +5 more
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Community‐level economics spectrum of fine‐roots driven by nutrient limitations in subalpine forests [PDF]

Journal of Ecology, 2019
Abstract Fine‐root traits show remarkable variation with plant community structure and environmental shifts, but there is limited understanding of how trait covariation that exists among fine‐root traits shifts among different communities, especially in forests.
Fanglan Li, Hui Hu, Michael Luke McCormlack, De Feng Feng, Xin Liu, Weikai Bao   +5 more
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Impacts of Arctic Shrubs on Root Traits and Belowground Nutrient Cycles Across a Northern Alaskan Climate Gradient

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020
Deciduous shrubs are expanding across the graminoid-dominated nutrient-poor arctic tundra. Absorptive root traits of shrubs are key determinants of nutrient acquisition strategy from tundra soils, but the variations of shrub root traits within and among ...
Weile Chen, Weile Chen, Ken D. Tape, Eugénie S. Euskirchen, Shuang Liang, Shuang Liang, Adriano Matos, Jonathan Greenberg, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo   +8 more
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Linking functional composition moments of the sub-Mediterranean ecotone with environmental drivers

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
IntroductionFunctional trait-based approaches are extensively applied to the study of mechanisms governing community assembly along environmental gradients. These approaches have been classically based on studying differences in mean values among species,
Sergio de Tomás Marín, Javier Galán Díaz, Jesús Rodríguez-Calcerrada, Iván Prieto, Enrique G. de la Riva, Enrique G. de la Riva   +5 more
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Choose Wisely: Great Variation among Genotypes of Promising Paludiculture Crop Phragmites australis

Plants, 2023
Measures mitigating the climate crisis, such as paludiculture, which is the agriculture on rewetted peatlands, are urgently needed. The cosmopolitan species Phragmites australis has the potential to be used in paludiculture worldwide but is known for its
Kerstin Haldan, Kristina Kuprina, Meike Ingeborg Haase, Fabian Kieckhäfer, Lisa Schade, Joraine Schmoldt, Lina Stella Schock, Marthe Stein, Alexander Wille, Martin Schnittler, Manuela Bog, Jürgen Kreyling   +11 more
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Fine root morphology is phylogenetically structured, but nitrogen is related to the plant economics spectrum in temperate trees [PDF]

Functional Ecology, 2014
Summary Plant functional traits have revealed trade‐offs related to life‐history adaptations, geographical distributions, and ecosystem processes. Fine roots are essential in plant resource acquisition and play an important role in soil carbon cycling.
Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes, Kurt A. Smemo, Christopher B. Blackwood   +2 more
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