Fine root respiration is more strongly correlated with root traits than tree species identity

Frontiers in root ecology: recent advances and future challenges

(2018) Amandine Erktan et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Partitioning soil respiration: quantifying the artifacts of the trenching method

(2018) K. E. Savage et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

A worldview of root traits: the influence of ancestry, growth form, climate and mycorrhizal association on the functional trait variation of fine-root tissues in seed plants

(2017) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology

(2017) Colleen M. Iversen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root traits across environmental gradients in Mediterranean woody communities: are they aligned along the root economics spectrum?

(2017) Enrique G. de la Riva et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Relationships between specific root length and respiration rate of fine roots across stands and seasons in Chamaecyparis obtusa

(2017) Kouhei Miyatani et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Root Branching Is a Leading Root Trait of the Plant Economics Spectrum in Temperate Trees

(2017) Rebecca Liese et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum

(2016) Kris R. Kramer-Walter 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

Towards a multidimensional root trait framework: a tree root review

(2016) Monique Weemstra et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Etienne Laliberté   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Seasonality and partitioning of root allocation to rhizosphere soils in a midlatitude forest

(2016) Rose Z. Abramoff et al.   Ecosphere

Fine Root Productivity and Turnover of Ectomycorrhizal and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Tree Species in a Temperate Broad-Leaved Mixed Forest

(2016) Petra Kubisch et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A plant economics spectrum in Mediterranean forests along environmental gradients: is there coordination among leaf, stem and root traits?

(2015) Enrique G. de la Riva et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Seasonal variation in chemistry, but not morphology, in roots of Quercus robur growing in different soil types

(2015) M. Zadworny et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Dates and Times Made Easy withlubridate

(2015) Garrett Grolemund et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Variability in root production, phenology, and turnover rate among 12 temperate tree species

(2014) M. Luke McCormack et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Are above- and below-ground phenology in sync?

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

Early season root production in relation to leaf production among six diverse temperate tree species

(2014) M. Luke McCormack et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

It's Complicated: Intraroot System Variability of Respiration and Morphological Traits in Four Deciduous Tree Species

(2014) B. Rewald et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Patterns in root traits of woody species hosting arbuscular and ectomycorrhizas: implications for the evolution of belowground strategies

(2014) Louise H. Comas et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Variation of first-order root traits across climatic gradients and evolutionary trends in geological time

(2013) Weile Chen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ecosystem-level controls on root-rhizosphere respiration

(2013) Francesca Hopkins et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

IJ_Rhizo: an open-source software to measure scanned images of root samples

(2013) Alain Pierret et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Relationships between root respiration rate and root morphology, chemistry and anatomy in Larix gmelinii and Fraxinus mandshurica

(2013) S. Jia et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

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

Diel patterns of autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration among phenological stages

(2012) K. Savage et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Predicting fine root lifespan from plant functional traits in temperate trees

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

Fine-root turnover rates of European forests revisited: an analysis of data from sequential coring and ingrowth cores

(2012) I. Brunner et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Chronic N deposition alters root respiration-tissue N relationship in northern hardwood forests

(2011) Andrew J. Burton et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control

(2011) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A Two-Phase Model for Smoothly Joining Disparate Growth Phases in the Macropodid Thylogale billardierii

(2011) Clive R. McMahon et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

(2011) Lisa A. Donovan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Identifying roots of northern hardwood species: patterns with diameter and depth

(2010) Ruth D. Yanai et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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 morphological traits determine variation in root respiration of Quercus serrata

(2009) N. Makita et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY