Species- and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120 000-year soil chronosequence in temperate rain forest

Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen–phosphorus interactions

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Understanding ecosystem retrogression

(2010) Duane A. Peltzer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

What drives retrogressive succession? Plant strategies to tolerate infertile and poorly drained soils

(2010) Aurora Gaxiola et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

(2010) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland

(2010) Kate H. Orwin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Coordinated variation in leaf and root traits across multiple spatial scales in Chinese semi-arid and arid ecosystems

(2010) Guofang Liu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ephemeral root modules in Fraxinus mandshurica

(2010) Mengxue Xia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evidence for the evolution of reduced mycorrhizal dependence during plant invasion

(2009) Elizabeth K. Seifert et al.   ECOLOGY

Tree species fine-root demography parallels habitat specialization across a sandhill soil resource gradient

(2009) Javier F. Espeleta et al.   ECOLOGY

Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

(2009) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Patterns in root trait variation among 25 co-existing North American forest species

(2009) L. H. Comas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2009) Sarah E. Hobbie et al.   OECOLOGIA

Punching above their weight: low-biomass non-native plant species alter soil properties during primary succession

(2009) Duane A. Peltzer et al.   OIKOS

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

Anatomical traits associated with absorption and mycorrhizal colonization are linked to root branch order in twenty-three Chinese temperate tree species

(2008) Dali Guo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age

(2008) H LAMBERS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION