Below-ground opportunities in vegetation science

Different Root and Shoot Responses to Mowing and Fertility in Native and Invaded Grassland

(2014) Vasiliki G. Balogianni et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Leaf and fine root carbon stocks and turnover are coupled across Arctic ecosystems

(2013) Victoria L. Sloan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Consequences of plant-soil feedbacks in invasion

(2013) Katharine N. Suding et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant-soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

(2013) Wim H. van der Putten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Above- and below-ground herbivory effects on below-ground plant-fungus interactions and plant-soil feedback responses

(2013) T. Martijn Bezemer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Linking litter decomposition of above- and below-ground organs to plant-soil feedbacks worldwide

(2013) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Going back to the roots: the microbial ecology of the rhizosphere

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Fine root response to soil resource heterogeneity differs between grassland and forest

(2013) Bradley D. Pinno et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest

(2013) K. E. Clemmensen et al.   SCIENCE

Genetic by environment interactions affect plant-soil linkages

(2013) Clara C. Pregitzer et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Matgrass sward plant species benefit from soil organisms

(2012) E. Pernilla Brinkman et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Controls of Fine Root Life Span

(2012) Han Y. H. Chen et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

Decoupled long-term effects of nutrient enrichment on aboveground and belowground properties in subalpine tundra

(2012) David A. Wardle et al.   ECOLOGY

Nitrogen Uptake During Fall, Winter and Spring Differs Among Plant Functional Groups in a Subarctic Heath Ecosystem

(2012) Klaus S. Larsen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Below-ground plant species richness: new insights from DNA-based methods

(2012) Meelis Pärtel et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home-field advantage with a new hypothesis

(2012) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The Behavioral Ecology of Nutrient Foraging by Plants

(2011) James F. Cahill et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Effects of soil biota from different ranges onRobiniainvasion: acquiring mutualists and escaping pathogens

(2011) Ragan M. Callaway et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecosystem carbon changes with woody encroachment of grassland in the northern Great Plains

(2011) Bradley D. Pinno et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science

(2011) Stephanie Pau et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Patterns of trait convergence and divergence among native and exotic species in herbaceous plant communities are not modified by nitrogen enrichment

(2011) Elsa E. Cleland et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Root responses to nutrients and soil biota: drivers of species coexistence and ecosystem productivity

(2011) Hans de Kroon et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant species richness belowground: higher richness and new patterns revealed by next-generation sequencing

(2011) INGA HIIESALU et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Spatial patterns of plant diversity below-ground as revealed by DNA barcoding

(2011) PRASAD R. KESANAKURTI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Direct measurement of roots in soil for single and mixed species using a quantitative DNA-based method

(2011) Rebecca E. Haling et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Belowground DNA-based techniques: untangling the network of plant root interactions

(2011) Liesje Mommer et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Quantitative estimates of root densities at minirhizotrons differ from those in the bulk soil

(2011) Rose-Marie Rytter et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

(2011) P. B. Adler et al.   SCIENCE

Global-scale latitudinal patterns of plant fine-root nitrogen and phosphorus

(2011) Z.Y. Yuan et al.   Nature Communications

Grassland root communities: species distributions and how they are linked to aboveground abundance

(2010) Douglas A. Frank et al.   ECOLOGY

Consistent effects of nitrogen fertilization on soil bacterial communities in contrasting systems

(2010) Kelly S. Ramirez et al.   ECOLOGY

The role of plant–soil feedbacks in driving native-species recovery

(2010) Stephanie G. Yelenik et al.   ECOLOGY

The invasive grass Agropyron cristatum doubles belowground productivity but not soil carbon

(2010) Andrew S. Macdougall et al.   ECOLOGY

Nitrogen uptake by Carex aquatilis during the winter-spring transition in a low Arctic wet meadow

(2010) Kate A. Edwards et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions

(2010) James D. Bever et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Estimating Root Production: Comparison of 11 Methods in Shortgrass Steppe and Review of Biases

(2009) Daniel G. Milchunas   ECOSYSTEMS

Asynchronicity in root and shoot phenology in grasses and woody plants

(2009) DIEGO F. STEINAKER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground–belowground ecology

(2009) Wim H. van der Putten et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a predictive understanding of belowground process responses to climate change: have we moved any closer?

(2008) Elise Pendall et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Phenology of fine roots and leaves in forest and grassland

(2008) Diego F. Steinaker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Temporal and spatial variation of fine roots in a northern Australian Eucalyptus tetrodonta savanna

(2008) David P. Janos et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

High diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a boreal herb-rich coniferous forest

(2008) Maarja pik et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Scale and density dependent relationships among roots, mycorrhizal fungi and collembola in grassland and forest

(2008) Diego F. Steinaker et al.   OIKOS

Size does matter: variation in herbivory between and within plants and the plant vigor hypothesis

(2008) Tatiana Cornelissen et al.   OIKOS

Irreconcilable Differences: Fine-Root Life Spans and Soil Carbon Persistence

(2008) A. E. Strand et al.   SCIENCE