Intra-plant versus Inter-plant Root Competition in Beans: avoidance, resource matching or tragedy of the commons

By G. G. Maina, Joel s. Brown, M. Gersani. Plant Ecology, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Root competition: beyond resource depletion (2006, background): “This calls into question the conclusion reached by Gersani et al. (2001), Maina et al. (2002) and O’Brien et al. (2005) that the increase in root mass was a response to detecting that resources were shared with a competitor, i.e. a ‘tragedy of the commons’ (Hardin 1968).”
The Behavioral Ecology of Nutrient Foraging by Plants (2011, background): “Many empirical studies that claim to demonstrate aggregation (e.g., Gersani et al. 2001, Maina et al. 2002, O’Brien et al. 2005) have confounded soil volume and soil fertility in their experimental designs, resulting in sharp criticism (Hess & de Kroon 2007, Laird & Aarssen 2005, Schenk 2006).”
Modelling the rhizosphere: a review of methods for ‘upscaling’ to the whole‐plant scale (2006, background): “The morphological responses of roots to nutrient gradients and patches may actually be maladaptive in agricultural monoculture (Maina et al., 2002), and competition between species might be required to achieve an adaptive advantage of plasticity (Robinson et al.”
Effects of rooting volume and nutrient availability as an alternative explanation for root self/non‐self discrimination (2007, result): “As these are well-known and well-accepted responses, we cannot accept the explanation given by a number of authors (Gersani et al. 2001; Maina et al. 2002; Falik et al. 2003; O’Brien et al. 2005) that the reduced flowering and fruiting are due to S/NS interactions and the result of an evolved…”
Games roots play: effects of soil volume and nutrients (2008, background): “2001) have involved comparing the root and/or seed biomass production of pairs of plants that either share a rooting volume or that ‘own’ half the space by virtue of a divider preventing below-ground interactions between the plants (Gersani et al. 2001; Maina et al. 2002; O’Brien et al. 2005).”
ROOT STRATEGIES FOR PHOSPHORUS ACQUISITION (2008, background): “To complicate matters further, plants may alter root development in nutrient patches when roots of another plant (even of the same species) are competing within the patch (Robinson et al. 1999; Gersani et al. 2001; Maina et al. 2002).”
Above‐ and below‐ground competition cues elicit independent responses (2007, background): “Previous studies in crop legumes examined responses to above- and below-ground competition cues separately, even though their results indicate that these cues elicit contradictory responses (Kasperbauer et al. 1984; Hunt et al. 1987, 1989; Britz 1990; Pausch et al. 1991; Gersani et al. 2001; Maina e”