A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

GT Freschet, L Pagès, CM Iversen, LH Comas… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Global systematic review with meta-analysis shows that warming effects on terrestrial plant biomass allocation are influenced by precipitation and mycorrhizal …

L Zhou, X Zhou, Y He, Y Fu, Z Du, M Lu, X Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biomass allocation in plants is fundamental for understanding and predicting terrestrial
carbon storage. Yet, our knowledge regarding warming effects on root: shoot ratio (R/S) …

Phenological mismatches between above-and belowground plant responses to climate warming

H Liu, H Wang, N Li, J Shao, X Zhou… - Nature climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Climate warming is changing the aboveground phenology of plants around the world.
However, the effects of warming on the belowground phenology of plants remain relatively …

Nitrogen availability mediates soil carbon cycling response to climate warming: A meta‐analysis

T Bai, P Wang, Y Qiu, Y Zhang, S Hu - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate warming may induce a positive feedback through increasing soil carbon (C)
release to the atmosphere. Although warming can affect both C input to and output from soil …

Warming and elevated ozone induce tradeoffs between fine roots and mycorrhizal fungi and stimulate organic carbon decomposition

Y Qiu, L Guo, X Xu, L Zhang, K Zhang, M Chen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Climate warming and elevated ozone (eO3) are important climate change components that
can affect plant growth and plant-microbe interactions. However, the resulting impact on soil …

Investigating the effects of organic amendments on soil microbial composition and its linkage to soil organic carbon: A global meta-analysis

J Cui, B Yang, M Zhang, D Song, X Xu, C Ai… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the dynamics of soil microbial communities responsible for soil element
cycling is vital to understanding organic amendments' mechanisms in agricultural soil …

[HTML][HTML] Fine root biomass and morphology in a temperate forest are influenced more by canopy water addition than by canopy nitrogen addition

W Li, C Wang, H Liu, W Wang, R Sun, M Li… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Increasing atmospheric N deposition and changes in precipitation patterns
could profoundly impact forest community structure and ecosystem functions. However, most …

Water‐use efficiency in response to climate change: from leaf to ecosystem in a temperate steppe

S Niu, X Xing, ZHE Zhang, J Xia, X Zhou… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Water‐use efficiency (WUE) has been recognized as an important characteristic of
ecosystem productivity, which links carbon (C) and water cycling. However, little is known …

Enhanced root exudation stimulates soil nitrogen transformations in a subalpine coniferous forest under experimental warming

H Yin, Y Li, J Xiao, Z Xu, X Cheng… - Global change biology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the perceived importance of exudation to forest ecosystem function, few studies
have attempted to examine the effects of elevated temperature and nutrition availability on …

Drought‐induced changes in root biomass largely result from altered root morphological traits: Evidence from a synthesis of global field trials

G Zhou, X Zhou, Y Nie, SH Bai, L Zhou… - Plant, cell & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme drought is likely to become more frequent and intense as a result of global climate
change, which may significantly impact plant root traits and responses (ie, morphology …