Fine-root exploitation strategies differ in tropical old growth and logged-over forests in Ghana

Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

(2017) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Lessons learned from applying a forest gap model to understand ecosystem and carbon dynamics of complex tropical forests

(2016) Rico Fischer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Methods for estimating root biomass and production in forest and woodland ecosystem carbon studies: A review

(2016) Shalom D. Addo-Danso et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Root structure-function relationships in 74 species: evidence of a root economics spectrum related to carbon economy

(2016) Catherine Roumet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effects of soil bulk density on sessile oak Quercus petraea Liebl. seedlings

(2015) Mariusz Kormanek et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Forest biomass recovery after different anthropogenic disturbances: relative importance of changes in stand structure and wood density

(2015) Dunmei Lin et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Linking root traits to nutrient foraging in arbuscular mycorrhizal trees in a temperate forest

(2015) David M. Eissenstat et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes

(2015) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root depth and morphology in response to soil drought: comparing ecological groups along the secondary succession in a tropical dry forest

(2015) Horacio Paz et al.   OECOLOGIA

Fine root dynamics in lodgepole pine and white spruce stands along productivity gradients in reclaimed oil sands sites

(2015) Ghulam Murtaza Jamro et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The impact of selective logging and clearcutting on forest structure, tree diversity and above-ground biomass of African tropical forests

(2014) Roberto Cazzolla Gatti et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Succession and environmental variation influence soil exploration potential by fine roots and mycorrhizal fungi in an Atlantic ecosystem in southern Brazil

(2014) Waldemar Zangaro et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Differences in fine root traits between early and late-successional tree species in a Chinese subtropical forest

(2013) W. Xiang et al.   FORESTRY

Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Predicting fine root lifespan from plant functional traits in temperate trees

(2012) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Patterns of root respiration rates and morphological traits in 13 tree species in a tropical forest

(2012) N. Makita et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Investment in Fine Roots and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Decrease During Succession in Three Brazilian Ecosystems

(2011) Waldemar Zangaro et al.   BIOTROPICA

Fine root production and turnover in forest ecosystems in relation to stand and environmental characteristics

(2011) Leena Finér et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The allocation of ecosystem net primary productivity in tropical forests

(2011) Y. Malhi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Litter decomposition: what controls it and how can we alter it to sequester more carbon in forest soils?

(2010) Cindy E. Prescott   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Fine root production and distribution in the tropical rainforests of south-western Cameroon: effects of soil type and selective logging

(2010) A Ibrahima et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

Fine root decomposition rates do not mirror those of leaf litter among temperate tree species

(2009) Sarah E. Hobbie et al.   OECOLOGIA

Consequences of increasing forest use intensity for biomass, morphology and growth of fine roots in a tropical moist forest on Sulawesi, Indonesia

(2008) Christoph Leuschner et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Changes in arbuscular mycorrhizal associations and fine root traits in sites under different plant successional phases in southern Brazil

(2008) Waldemar Zangaro et al.   MYCORRHIZA

The effects of water availability on root growth and morphology in an Amazon rainforest

(2008) Daniel B. Metcalfe et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Root decisions

(2008) ANGELA HODGE   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT