Costs of acquiring phosphorus by vascular land plants patterns and implications for plant coexistence

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 217; no. 4; pp. 1420 - 1427
• Main Authors: Raven, John A., Lambers, Hans, Smith, Sally E., Westoby, Mark
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England New Phytologist Trust 01.03.2018; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adaptation; carbon; cluster roots; Coexistence; Construction costs; decline; embryophytes; energy; Energy costs; Exudates; Hyphae; Land acquisition; Modes; mycorrhizal fungi; mycorrhizas; Organic phosphorus; Phosphorus; phosphorus (P); Roots; Soil; soil concentration; Soils; Symbionts; Tansley review; trade‐offs; soil concentration; mycorrhizas; trade-offs; cluster roots; phosphorus (P)

We compare carbon (and hence energy) costs of the different modes of phosphorus (P) acquisition by vascular land plants. Phosphorus-acquisition modes are considered to be mechanisms of plants together with their root symbionts and structures such as cluster roots involved in mobilising or absorbing...