Economic strategies of plant absorptive roots vary with root diameter

Plant roots typically vary along a dominant ecological axis, the root economics spectrum, depicting a tradeoff between resource acquisition and conservation. For absorptive roots, which are mainly responsible for resource acquisition, we hypothesized that root economic strategies differ with increas...

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Main Authors: D. L. Kong, J. J. Wang, P. Kardol, H. F. Wu, H. Zeng, X. B. Deng, Y. Deng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-01-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/415/2016/bg-13-415-2016.pdf