Interspecific facilitation of micronutrient uptake between cluster-root-bearing trees and non-cluster rooted-shrubs in a Banksia woodland

• Published in: Plant and soil Vol. 496; no. 1-2; pp. 71 - 82
• Main Authors: Staudinger, Christiana, Renton, Michael, Leopold, Matthias, Wasaki, Jun, Veneklaas, Erik J., de Britto Costa, Patrícia, Boitt, Gustavo, Lambers, Hans
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.03.2024; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Analysis; Banksia; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Clusters; Ecology; Ecosystems; Flowers & plants; Identification and classification; Indigenous species; Interspecific; Leaves; Life Sciences; Manganese; Methods; Micronutrients; Nutrient concentrations; nutrient uptake; Physical properties; Plant Physiology; Plant Sciences; Plant species; Plant-soil relationships; Plants; Plants (botany); Research Article; root systems; Senescence; Shrubs; soil; Soil Science & Conservation; Soil sciences; species; Trees; Understory; Water relations; Western Australia; Woodlands; Australia; Western Australia; Facilitation; woodland; Root-root interactions; Spatial analysis; Leaf manganese; Cluster roots; Carboxylates; Size-dependent resource allocation; Bossiaea eriocarpa; Banksia woodland; Hibbertia hypericoides

Background and aims Belowground interspecific plant facilitation is supposed to play a key role in enabling species co-existence in hyperdiverse ecosystems in extremely nutrient-poor, semi-arid habitats, such as Banksia woodlands in southwestern-Australia. Manganese (Mn) is readily mobilised by Bank...