Phosphorus acquisition and utilization in plants

H Lambers - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Tremendous progress has been made on molecular aspects of plant phosphorus (P)
nutrition, often without heeding information provided by soil scientists, ecophysiologists, and …

RUSSELL REVIEW Are plant roots only “in” soil or are they “of” it? Roots, soil formation and function

PJ Gregory - European Journal of Soil Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Roots are near‐ubiquitous components of soils globally but have often been regarded as
separate from the soil rather than a substantial factor in determining what soil is and how it …

Plant microbiomes harbor potential to promote nutrient turnover in impoverished substrates of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot

AP Camargo, RSC de Souza, J Jose… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The substrates of the Brazilian campos rupestre s, a grassland ecosystem, have extremely
low concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen, imposing restrictions to plant growth …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies to acquire and use phosphorus in phosphorus-impoverished and fire-prone environments

H Lambers, P de Britto Costa, GR Cawthray… - Plant and Soil, 2022 - Springer
Background Unveiling the diversity of plant strategies to acquire and use phosphorus (P) is
crucial to understand factors promoting their coexistence in hyperdiverse P-impoverished …

Digging deeper: what the critical zone perspective adds to the study of plant ecophysiology

TE Dawson, WJ Hahm, K Crutchfield‐Peters - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of critical zone (CZ) science has provided an integrative platform for
investigating plant ecophysiology in the context of landscape evolution, weathering and …

Seasonal variations in water uptake and transpiration for plants in a karst critical zone in China

HM Behzad, M Arif, S Duan, A Kavousi, M Cao… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite substantial drought conditions in the karst critical zone (KCZ), the KCZ landscapes
are often covered with forest woody plants. However, it is not well understood how these …

OCBIL theory examined: reassessing evolution, ecology and conservation in the world's ancient, climatically buffered and infertile landscapes

SD Hopper, H Lambers, FAO Silveira… - Biological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
OCBIL theory was introduced as a contribution towards understanding the evolution,
ecology and conservation of the biological and cultural diversity of old, climatically buffered …

Soil properties and geomorphic processes influence vegetation composition, structure, and function in the Cerrado Domain

D Lira-Martins, DL Nascimento, A Abrahão… - Plant and Soil, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background The Cerrado of central Brazil—the world's largest Neotropical savanna–
is comprised of a mosaic of highly heterogeneous vegetation growing on an extremely …

Silicon dynamics through the lens of soil-plant-animal interactions: perspectives for agricultural practices

F de Tombeur, P Roux, JT Cornelis - Plant and Soil, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Silicon (Si) is increasingly recognized as a pivotal beneficial element
for plants in ecology and agricultural sciences, but soil-plant Si cycling has been considered …

A shift from phenol to silica‐based leaf defences during long‐term soil and ecosystem development

F De Tombeur, E Laliberté, H Lambers… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The resource availability hypothesis predicts that plants adapted to infertile soils have high
levels of anti‐herbivore leaf defences. This hypothesis has been mostly explored for …