Abstract Background and Aims Plant performance is enhanced by balancing above-and
below-ground resource uptake through the intraspecific adjustment of leaf and root traits. It is …

Fine roots balance multiple essential plant functions that ultimately fuel plant productivity.
The coordination of root functional traits is multidimensional, meaning that some traits are …

Plant roots typically vary along a dominant ecological axis, the root economics spectrum,
depicting a tradeoff between resource acquisition and conservation. For absorptive roots …

Aims Drought and salinity are severe abiotic stress factors, which limit plant growth and
productivity, particularly in desert regions. In this study, we employed two desert poplars …

Aims Root traits play an important role in regulating soil microbial communities by altering
soil parameters. However, how the variation of root traits across tree species affects soil …

Fine root traits vary under increased nitrogen (N) deposition and decreased precipitation
across root orders and species, and these differences reflect plant belowground carbon …

Purpose Plants growing in the soils of karst forests associate with arbuscular mycorrhizae
(AM) or ectomycorrhizae (ECM) to acquire nutrients. We researched how these different …

Root traits including root exudates are key factors affecting plant interactions with soil and
thus play an important role in determining ecosystem processes. The drivers of their …

Independence among leaf economics, leaf hydraulics and leaf size confers plants great
capability in adapting to heterogeneous environments. However, it remains unclear whether …

Fine‐root traits show remarkable variation with plant community structure and environmental
shifts, but there is limited understanding of how trait covariation that exists among fine‐root …