Towards a multidimensional root trait framework: a tree root review.

By M. Weemstra, L. Mommer, E. Visser, J. van Ruijven, T. Kuyper, G. Mohren, F. Sterck. New Phytologist, 2016

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Fine-root trait plasticity of beech (Fagus sylvatica) and spruce (Picea abies) forests on two contrasting soils (2017, background): “These constraints may also explain why our overall results do not match the resource economics theory that has been generally observed across species on leaf functional traits, but not on fine-root traits (Weemstra et al. 2016).”
Root trait responses to drought are more heterogeneous than leaf trait responses (2020, background): “Thicker roots with lower tissue density may support faster nutrient acquisition (Wahl & Ryser, 2000; Withington, Reich, Oleksyn, & Eissenstat, 2006) because of their greater dependence on mycorrhizal fungi (Brundrett, 2002; Kong et al., 2017; Weemstra et al., 2016).”
Climate and soil nutrients differentially drive multidimensional fine root traits in ectomycorrhizal‐dominated alpine coniferous forests (2020, background): “Moreover, compared with thicker roots, thinner roots have faster turnover (Ma et al., 2018; Weemstra et al., 2016) and are more plastic in local resource patches (Chen et al., 2016; SalgueroGómez & Casper, 2011), which confers them a lower cost with respect to root proliferation in fluctuating…”
A hyper‐arid environment shapes an inverse pattern of the fast–slow plant economics spectrum for above‐, but not below‐ground resource acquisition strategies (2018, background): “…different selection pressures, respond to the same selection pressures but in different ways, or because of different constraints on different plant organs (Bergmann, Ryo, Prati, Hempel, & Rillig, 2017; Kembel & Cahill, 2011; Weemstra et al., 2016; Withington, Reich, Oleksyn, & Eissenstat, 2006).”
Frontiers in root ecology: recent advances and future challenges (2018, background): “The existence of such an acquisition – conservation trade-off, named the root economics spectrum (RES), is however under debate (Valverde-Barrantes and Blackwood 2016; Kramer-Walter et al. 2016;Weemstra et al. 2016).”
Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine‐root trait variation (2017, background): “Overall, the lack of consistent relationships between soil properties and root traits related to thickness could result from the multidimensionality of roots (Weemstra et al. 2016) – aimed at acquiring water and different nutrients with contrasting mobility in soil – and the variable reliance of dif”
Root traits are related to plant water-use among rangeland Mediterranean species (2017, background): “Understanding processes that enable species to tolerate abiotic constraints is one of the oldest pursuits in ecologi- cal research (Diamond 1975; Weiher & Keddy 1999).”