The plastic plant: root responses to heterogeneous supplies of nutrients

A Hodge - New phytologist, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
When roots encounter a nutrient‐rich zone or patch they often proliferate within it. Roots
experiencing nutrient‐rich patches can also enhance their physiological ion‐uptake …

Nitrogen balance in forest soils: nutritional limitation of plants under climate change stresses

H Rennenberg, M Dannenmann, A Gessler… - Plant …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Forest ecosystems with low soil nitrogen (N) availability are characterized by direct
competition for this growth‐limiting resource between several players, ie various …

[图书][B] Plant roots: the hidden half

A Eshel, T Beeckman - 2013 - books.google.com
The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

What can we learn from resource pulses

LH Yang, JL Bastow, KO Spence, AN Wright - Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
An increasing number of studies in a wide range of natural systems have investigated how
pulses of resource availability influence ecological processes at individual, population, and …

[图书][B] The biology of deserts

D Ward - 2016 - books.google.com
This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

Plastic plants and patchy soils

A Hodge - Journal of experimental botany, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Soil nutrients are distributed in a non-uniform or 'patchy'manner. It is well established that
the modular nature of root systems allows them to show both morphological and/or …

Microbial dynamics and carbon and nitrogen cycling following re-wetting of soils beneath two semi-arid plant species

P Saetre, JM Stark - Oecologia, 2005 - Springer
Sporadic summer rainfall in semi-arid ecosystems can provide enough soil moisture to
drastically increase CO 2 efflux and rates of soil N cycling. The magnitudes of C and N …

Soil biology and carbon sequestration in grasslands

LE Jackson, M Potthoff, KL Steenwerth… - … and management of …, 2007 - degruyter.com
The chapter begins with a description of California soils that support grasslands and
considers some of the soil factors that influence the potential vs. actual distribution of …

Functional differences in water‐use patterns of contrasting life forms in Great Basin steppelands

RJ Ryel, AJ Leffler, C Ivans, MS Peek… - Vadose Zone …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The temporal patterns of evapotranspiration were monitored for 2 yr for four species of
differing life form that currently form near monoculture communities in the Great Basin, USA …

Light and low-intensity rainfalls: A review of their classification, occurrence, and importance in landsurface, ecological and environmental processes

DL Dunkerley - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Over many areas, light rainfalls, those delivering small daily amounts (typically,< 10 mm d−
1), and low-intensity rainfalls (typically,< 1 mm h− 1), contribute a large proportion of raining …