In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

In recent years, belowground plant ecology has experienced a booming interest. This has
resulted in major advances towards a greater understanding of belowground plant and …

Plant roots have greatly diversified in form and function since the emergence of the first land
plants,, but the global organization of functional traits in roots remains poorly understood …

Since their emergence onto land, terrestrial plants have developed diverse strategies to
acquire soil resources. However, we lack a framework that adequately captures how these …

Fine root lifespan is a critical trait associated with contrasting root strategies of resource
acquisition and protection. Yet, its position within the multidimensional “root economics …

• Fine roots mediate below-ground resource acquisition, yet understanding of how fine-root
functional traits vary along environmental gradients, within branching orders and across …

Understanding changes in soil chemical and microbial properties under different vegetation
types on post-mining sites is an important step in developing management practices to …

Distribution of shrubs expanding in grasslands–shrubification–is ongoing worldwide in
grasslands and is common on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP). But the consequences of …

The process-based Biome-BGC (BioGeochemical Cycles) model is widely used to simulate
the storage and flux of water, carbon, and nitrogen within an ecosystem. However, the …

Plant roots can accumulate organic chemicals, including PCBs, and this could be relevant in
spreading chemicals through the food chain. To estimate such uptake, several equations are …