Effects of nutrient heterogeneity on root foraging and plant growth at the individual and community level

The Response of Plants and Mycorrhizal Fungi to Nutritionally-Heterogeneous Environments Are Regulated by Nutrient Types and Plant Functional Groups

(2021) Bitao Liu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Strength and size of phosphorus-rich patches determine the foraging strategy of Neyraudia reynaudiana

(2020) Liping Cai et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

A meta‐analysis of effects of physiological integration in clonal plants under homogeneous vs. heterogeneous environments

(2020) Jianyong Wang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

V.PhyloMaker: an R package that can generate very large phylogenies for vascular plants

(2019) Yi Jin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Soil heterogeneity and plant species diversity in experimental grassland communities: contrasting effects of soil nutrients and pH at different spatial scales

(2019) Wei Xue et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after 20 years of manipulation during grassland restoration

(2019) Sara G. Baer et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Fine root responses to temporal nutrient heterogeneity and competition in seedlings of two tree species with different rooting strategies

(2018) Peng Wang et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Local root growth and death are mediated by contrasts in nutrient availability and root quantity between soil patches

(2018) Peng Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Root distribution responses to three-dimensional soil heterogeneity in experimental mesocosms

(2017) Yongjie Liu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Micro-scale heterogeneity in urban forest soils affects fine root foraging by ornamental seedlings of Buddhist pine and Northeast yew

(2017) Hongxu Wei et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Fertilizer placement to improve crop nutrient acquisition and yield: A review and meta-analysis

(2016) Peteh Mehdi Nkebiwe et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Co-occurring grassland species vary in their responses to fine-scale soil heterogeneity

(2016) Riin Tamme et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Linking root traits and competitive success in grassland species

(2016) Janneke M. Ravenek et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Nutrient foraging behaviour of four co-occurring perennial grassland plant species alone does not predict behaviour with neighbours

(2015) Gordon G. McNickle et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

High-resolution quantification of root dynamics in split-nutrient rhizoslides reveals rapid and strong proliferation of maize roots in response to local high nitrogen

(2015) Dina in ‘t Zandt et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Cluster root allocation of white lupin (Lupinus albusL.) in soil with heterogeneous phosphorus and water distribution

(2015) Bernd Felderer et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

Contrasts between whole-plant and local nutrient levels determine root growth and death in Ailanthus altissima (Simaroubaceae)

(2014) Fengqin Hu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

An ideal free distribution explains the root production of plants that do not engage in a tragedy of the commons game

(2014) Gordon G. McNickle et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Root and shoot competition: a meta-analysis

(2013) Lars Pødenphant Kiaer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

It’s time to make changes: modulation of root system architecture by nutrient signals

(2013) Ricardo F. H. Giehl et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A negative heterogeneity–diversity relationship found in experimental grassland communities

(2013) Antonio Gazol et al.   OECOLOGIA

Fine root response to soil resource heterogeneity differs between grassland and forest

(2013) Bradley D. Pinno et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Early Root Overproduction Not Triggered by Nutrients Decisive for Competitive Success Belowground

(2013) Francisco M. Padilla et al.   PLoS One

Fine Root Patterning and Balanced Inorganic Phosphorus Distribution in the Soil Indicate Distinctive Adaptation of Maize Plants to Phosphorus Deficiency

(2012) Yu ZHANG et al.   PEDOSPHERE

Resource Heterogeneity, Soil Fertility, and Species Diversity: Effects of Clonal Species on Plant Communities

(2011) J. Alexander Eilts et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Behavioral Ecology of Nutrient Foraging by Plants

(2011) James F. Cahill et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Interactive effects of nutrient heterogeneity and competition: implications for root foraging theory?

(2011) Liesje Mommer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Wheat and white lupin differ in root proliferation and phosphorus use efficiency under heterogeneous soil P supply

(2011) Qifu Ma et al.   Crop & Pasture Science

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental manipulation

(2010) ZHUOTING WU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ideotype root architecture for efficient nitrogen acquisition by maize in intensive cropping systems

(2010) GuoHua Mi et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Foraging ability and growth performance of four subtropical tree species in response to heterogeneous nutrient environments

(2009) Yi Zhang et al.   Journal of Forest Research

Plant species diversity and environmental heterogeneity: spatial scale and competing hypotheses

(2009) Jeremy T. Lundholm   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Spatial variability of soil properties under Pinus canariensis canopy in two contrasting soil textures

(2009) A. Rodríguez et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

Pathogens promote plant diversity through a compensatory response

(2008) Devon J. Bradley et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environmental heterogeneity increases complementarity in experimental grassland communities

(2007) L. Wacker et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY