Belowground responses of woody plants to nitrogen addition in a phosphorus-rich region of northeast China

• Published in: Trees (Berlin, West) Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 143 - 154
• Main Authors: Guo, Jing, Gao, Yingzhi, Eissenstat, David M., He, Chunguang, Sheng, Lianxi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.02.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acanthopanax; Agriculture; Arbuscular mycorrhizas; Biomass; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Carbon; China; Colonization; dry matter partitioning; Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus; Fertilization; fertilizer application; fields; Forestry; Fungi; Life Sciences; Mountain regions; Mountains; mycorrhizal fungi; Nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizers; Nutrient uptake; Ontogeny; Original Article; Phosphorus; Plant Anatomy/Development; Plant growth; Plant Pathology; Plant Physiology; Plant Sciences; Plants (botany); root growth; Roots; Shoots; soil; Soils; Sorbus; Sorbus aucuparia subsp. pohuashanensis; vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae; Woody plants; China; Biomass partitioning; Carbon investment; Arbuscular mycorrhiza

Key Message Nitrogen addition leads to large increases in shoot growth but limited increases in root growth and reductions in mycorrhizal colonization of Sorbus pohuashanensis and Acanthopanax sessiliflorus. Soil in the cultivated fields of Changbai Mountain region of China is rich in phosphorus (P)...