Aggregated and complementary: symmetric proliferation, overyielding, and mass effects explain fine-root biomass in soil patches in a diverse temperate deciduous forest landscape

Long-term study of root biomass in a biodiversity experiment reveals shifts in diversity effects over time

(2014) Janneke M. Ravenek et al.   OIKOS

Decay of ecosystem differences and decoupling of tree community–soil environment relationships at ecotones

(2013) Christopher B. Blackwood et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling

(2013) Brian W. Brassard et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The distribution of below-ground traits is explained by intrinsic species differences and intraspecific plasticity in response to root neighbours

(2013) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Links between metabolic plasticity and functional redundancy in freshwater bacterioplankton communities

(2013) Jérôme Comte et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Fine-root morphological and growth traits in a Turkey-oak stand in relation to seasonal changes in soil moisture in the Southern Apennines, Italy

(2012) Antonio Montagnoli et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long-term grassland experiment

(2012) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   ECOLOGY

The effect of tree species diversity on fine-root production in a young temperate forest

(2012) Pifeng Lei et al.   OECOLOGIA

Resource availability mediates the importance of priority effects in plant community assembly and ecosystem function

(2012) Paul Kardol et al.   OIKOS

Effect of flooding on C metabolism of flood-tolerant (Quercus robur) and non-tolerant (Fagus sylvatica) tree species

(2012) E. Ferner et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fine root foraging strategies in Norway spruce forests across a European climate gradient

(2011) Ivika Ostonen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

The Roots of Diversity: Below Ground Species Richness and Rooting Distributions in a Tropical Forest Revealed by DNA Barcodes and Inverse Modeling

(2011) F. Andrew Jones et al.   PLoS One

More closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental test

(2011) J. H. Burns et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2010) Douglas A. Frank et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil fungal pathogens and the relationship between plant diversity and productivity

(2010) John L. Maron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Are beech (Fagus sylvatica) roots territorial?

(2010) Christa Lang et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Differences in fine root productivity between mixed- and single-species stands

(2010) Brian W. Brassard et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Evidence of ecotypic differentiation between populations of the tree species Parapiptadenia rigida due to flooding

(2010) D.C.G. Silva et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH

Unveiling below-ground species abundance in a biodiversity experiment: a test of vertical niche differentiation among grassland species

(2010) Liesje Mommer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Molecular identification of roots from a grassland community using size differences in fluorescently labelled PCR amplicons of three cpDNA regions

(2010) JOHN M. TAGGART et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

The online database MaarjAM reveals global and ecosystemic distribution patterns in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota)

(2010) M. Öpik et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ephemeral root modules in Fraxinus mandshurica

(2010) Mengxue Xia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Coarse particulate organic matter is the primary source of mineral N in the topsoil of three beech forests

(2010) Bernd Zeller et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Phylogeny and provenance affect plant–soil feedbacks in invaded California grasslands

(2009) Angela J. Brandt et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecological mechanisms associated with the positive diversity–productivity relationship in an N-limited grassland

(2009) D. A. Fornara et al.   ECOLOGY

Differences in C metabolism of ash species and provenances as a consequence of root oxygen deprivation by waterlogging

(2009) C. Jaeger et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Biomass and morphology of fine roots in temperate broad-leaved forests differing in tree species diversity: is there evidence of below-ground overyielding?

(2009) Catharina Meinen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant-microbe-soil interactions in the rhizosphere: an evolutionary perspective

(2009) Hans Lambers et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The dynamics of root meristem distribution in the soil

(2009) L. DUPUY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

Plant root growth and the marginal value theorem

(2009) G. G. McNickle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Focusing the metaphor: plant root foraging behaviour

(2009) Gordon G. McNickle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Improving the Scale and Precision of Hypotheses to Explain Root Foraging Ability

(2008) S. W. Kembel et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

PLANT–SOIL–MICROORGANISM INTERACTIONS: HERITABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PLANT GENOTYPE AND ASSOCIATED SOIL MICROORGANISMS

(2008) Jennifer A. Schweitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

FORWARD SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY VARIABLES

(2008) F. Guillaume Blanchet et al.   ECOLOGY

Fractal analysis on root systems of rice plants in response to drought stress

(2008) Hong Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Complementarity among species in horizontal versus vertical rooting space

(2008) S. von Felten et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Soil fertility increases with plant species diversity in a long-term biodiversity experiment

(2008) Ray Dybzinski et al.   OECOLOGIA

Higher effect of plant species diversity on productivity in natural than artificial ecosystems

(2008) P. Flombaum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA