Understanding deep roots and their functions in ecosystems: an advocacy for more unconventional research

Root functional parameters predict fine root decomposability at the community level

(2016) Iván Prieto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2016) Catherine Roumet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evapotranspiration of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) cultivated at two plantation sites in Southeast Asia

(2016) Thomas W. Giambelluca et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

The Streetlight Effect in Type 1 Diabetes

(2015) Manuela Battaglia et al.   DIABETES

An allometry-based model of the survival strategies of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation

(2015) Pierre Gentine et al.   Ecohydrology

Challenging the maximum rooting depth paradigm in grasslands and savannas

(2015) Jesse B. Nippert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Deep soil carbon dynamics are driven more by soil type than by climate: a worldwide meta-analysis of radiocarbon profiles

(2015) Jordane A. Mathieu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Root functional parameters along a land-use gradient: evidence of a community-level economics spectrum

(2015) Iván Prieto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Identifying new deep-rooted plant species suitable as undersown nitrogen catch crops

(2015) K. Thorup-Kristensen et al.   JOURNAL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

‘One physical system’: Tansley's ecosystem as Earth's critical zone

(2015) Daniel deB. Richter 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

Unexpected phenology and lifespan of shallow and deep fine roots of walnut trees grown in a silvoarable Mediterranean agroforestry system

(2015) Amandine Germon et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Competition with winter crops induces deeper rooting of walnut trees in a Mediterranean alley cropping agroforestry system

(2015) Rémi Cardinael et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Mechanisms of water supply and vegetation demand govern the seasonality and magnitude of evapotranspiration in Amazonia and Cerrado

(2014) Bradley O. Christoffersen et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Surficial gains and subsoil losses of soil carbon and nitrogen during secondary forest development

(2014) Megan L. Mobley et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil coring at multiple field environments can directly quantify variation in deep root traits to select wheat genotypes for breeding

(2014) A. P. Wasson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Are above- and below-ground phenology in sync?

(2014) Rose Z. Abramoff et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The role of forest trees and their mycorrhizal fungi in carbonate rock weathering and its significance for global carbon cycling

(2014) RACHEL M. S. THORLEY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Role of aquaporin activity in regulating deep and shallow root hydraulic conductance during extreme drought

(2014) Daniel M. Johnson et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Impacts of environmental factors on fine root lifespan

(2014) M. Luke McCormack et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Uncertainty in below-ground carbon biomass for major land covers in Southeast Asia

(2013) Jia Qi Yuen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

How do roots elongate in a structured soil?

(2013) Kemo Jin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Functional redundancy and stability in plant communities

(2013) Valério D. Pillar et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Depth of soil water uptake by tropical rainforest trees during dry periods: does tree dimension matter?

(2013) Clément Stahl et al.   OECOLOGIA

The hidden organic carbon in deep mineral soils

(2013) R. J. Harper et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Revisiting the Two-Layer Hypothesis: Coexistence of Alternative Functional Rooting Strategies in Savannas

(2013) Ricardo M. Holdo   PLoS One

Global Leaf Trait Relationships: Mass, Area, and the Leaf Economics Spectrum

(2013) J. L. D. Osnas et al.   SCIENCE

How to study deep roots—and why it matters

(2013) Jean-Luc Maeght et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Dynamics of soil exploration by fine roots down to a depth of 10 m throughout the entire rotation in Eucalyptus grandis plantations

(2013) Jean-Paul Laclau et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Influence of Seasonal Variations in Soil Water Availability on Gas Exchange of Tropical Canopy Trees

(2012) Clément Stahl et al.   BIOTROPICA

Carbon outcomes of major land-cover transitions in SE Asia: great uncertainties and REDD+ policy implications

(2012) Alan D. Ziegler et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The importance of limestone bedrock and dissolution karst features on tree root distribution in northern Yucatán, México

(2012) Héctor Estrada-Medina et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

“The Changing Model of Soil” Revisited

(2012) Daniel deB Richter et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Revisiting forest impact on atmospheric water vapor transport and precipitation

(2012) Anastassia M. Makarieva et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Root niche separation can explain avoidance of seasonal drought stress and vulnerability of overstory trees to extended drought in a mature Amazonian forest

(2012) Valeriy Y. Ivanov et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Reduced soil nutrient leaching following the establishment of tree-based intercropping systems in eastern Canada

(2011) Mélanie Bergeron et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Breeding crop plants with deep roots: their role in sustainable carbon, nutrient and water sequestration

(2011) D. B. Kell   ANNALS OF BOTANY

To threshold or not to threshold? That's the question

(2011) Song S. Qian et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Functional specialization of Eucalyptus fine roots: contrasting potential uptake rates for nitrogen, potassium and calcium tracers at varying soil depths

(2011) Eduardo Vinícius da Silva et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Genotypic variability of oil palm root system distribution in the field. Consequences for water uptake

(2011) Léifi Nodichao et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Acquisition of phosphorus and other poorly mobile nutrients by roots. Where do plant nutrition models fail?

(2011) Philippe Hinsinger et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

On the coupling between vegetation and the atmosphere

(2011) Isabella M. Angelini et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Almost symmetrical vertical growth rates above and below ground in one of the world's most productive forests

(2011) M. Christina et al.   Ecosphere

Evidence for biotic controls on topography and soil production

(2010) Joshua J. Roering et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Root elongation, water stress, and mechanical impedance: a review of limiting stresses and beneficial root tip traits

(2010) A. Glyn Bengough et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Food: An underground revolution

(2010) Virginia Gewin   NATURE

Soil moisture depletion under simulated drought in the Amazon: impacts on deep root uptake

(2010) Daniel Markewitz et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effects of corn (Zea mays L.) on the local and overall root development of young rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis Muel. Arg)

(2010) Santimaitree Gonkhamdee et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The roots of a new green revolution

(2010) Griet Den Herder et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Moving with climbing plants from Charles Darwin's time into the 21st century

(2009) S. Isnard et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Increased belowground biomass and soil CO2fluxes after a decade of carbon dioxide enrichment in a warm-temperate forest

(2009) Robert B. Jackson et al.   ECOLOGY

Growth of the whole root system for a plant crop of sugarcane under rainfed and irrigated environments in Brazil

(2009) Patricia Battie Laclau et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Hydraulic lift: soil processes and transpiration in the Mediterranean leguminous shrub Retama sphaerocarpa (L.) Boiss

(2009) Iván Prieto et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Winter wheat roots grow twice as deep as spring wheat roots, is this important for N uptake and N leaching losses?

(2009) Kristian Thorup-Kristensen et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The distribution and abundance of wheat roots in a dense, structured subsoil – implications for water uptake

(2009) ROSEMARY G. WHITE et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Soil depth, plant rooting strategies and species’ niches

(2008) H. Jochen Schenk   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Shallow-soil endemics: adaptive advantages and constraints of a specialized root-system morphology

(2008) Pieter Poot et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2008) A. E. Strand et al.   SCIENCE

The Shallowest Possible Water Extraction Profile: A Null Model for Global Root Distributions

(2008) H. Jochen Schenk   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

Hardware and software efficacy in assessment of fine root diameter distributions

(2007) Richard W. Zobel   COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE