Towards a multidimensional root trait framework: a tree root review

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 211; no. 4; pp. 1159 - 1169
• Main Authors: Weemstra, Monique, Mommer, Liesje, Visser, Eric J. W., Ruijven, Jasper, Kuyper, Thomas W., Mohren, Godefridus M. J., Sterck, Frank J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England New Phytologist Trust 01.09.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Aluminum; Bosecologie en Bosbeheer; Carbon dioxide; Carboxylic acids; Climate effects; Conservation; Drought; Economics; Ecosystems; edaphic factors; fine roots; Forest Ecology and Forest Management; functional traits; Graduate schools; Herbivores; Herbivory; Leaves; Leerstoelgroep Bosecologie en bosbeheer; Life span; Mycorrhizae - physiology; mycorrhizal symbiosis; Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology; Natuurbeheer en Plantenecologie; Nutrient requirements; PE&RC; Photosynthesis; Physiology; Plant ecology; Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation; Plant growth; Plant Leaves - physiology; Plant resources; Plant Roots - physiology; Plant species; Plant tissues; Plantenecologie en Natuurbeheer; Plants; Quantitative Trait, Heritable; resource acquisition; Resource conservation; Respiration; root economics spectrum (RES); soil; Soil pH; Tansley reviews; trait syndromes; trees; Trees - physiology; uptake mechanisms; resource acquisition; trait syndromes; mycorrhizal symbiosis; functional traits; root economics spectrum (RES)

The search for a root economics spectrum (RES) has been sparked by recent interest in trait-based plant ecology. By analogy with the one-dimensional leaf economics spectrum (LES), fine-root traits are hypothesised to match leaf traits which are coordinated along one axis from resource acquisitive to...