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

By Hendrik Poorter, K. Niklas, Peter B. Reich, J. Oleksyn, P. Poot, L. Mommer. New Phytologist, 2012

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates (2015, background): “Experimentally lowering soil nutrient availability is known to stimulate higher root : shoot ratios (see Poorter et al., 2012, for a comprehensive analysis), which may in turn improve plant water balance and hence allow for a higher gs. Conversely, at a given root : shoot ratio, an increase in gs…”
C:N:P stoichiometry of Artemisia species and close relatives across northern China: unravelling effects of climate, soil and taxonomy (2015, background): “Larger plants need proportionally greater investment in support structures, particularly C-rich lignin in woody tissues (Poorter et al. 2012), which could thus explain the correlation of C concentration and macroclimate.”
Dynamics of non-structural carbohydrates in terrestrial plants: a global synthesis (2016, background): “On average, herbaceous plants tend to have higher leaf mass fraction (Poorter et al. 2012) and higher specific leaf area, nitrogen concentration in leaves, assimilation, and respiration rates (in leaves and roots) than woody species (Wright et al. 2004, Reich et al. 2008, Kattge et al. 2011).”
Designing resilient and sustainable grasslands for a drier future: Adaptive strategies, functional traits and biotic interactions (2013, background): “…that the interaction with plant size complicates the interpretation of performance differences between genotypes since the depletion of soil water is a function of leaf area and total transpiration and not necessarily of any physiological or morphological acclimation (Poorter et al. 2012).”
Fine-root trait plasticity of beech (Fagus sylvatica) and spruce (Picea abies) forests on two contrasting soils (2017, background): “On the one hand, it has been suggested that fine-root morphological traits are more plastic than architectural traits (Poorter et al. 2012), but other studies have demonstrated the opposite (Ostonen et al.”
Tree growth changes with climate and forest type are associated with relative allocation of nutrients, especially phosphorus, to leaves and wood (2013, result): “This is in agreement with a recent meta-analysis at a global scale (Poorter et al., 2011).”
Why functional ecology should consider all plant organs: An allocation-based perspective (2015, background): “It is beyond the scope of this paper to provide an inepth review of the literature on functional allocation (see oorter et al. 2012), as well as on theories of natural selection ealing with optimal phenotypes under trade-off conditions e.g. Shoval et al. 2012; Vasseur, Violle, Enquist,…”
Patterns and Mechanisms of Nutrient Resorption in Plants (2015, background): “Leaves represent a small fraction of the aboveground biomass of woody plants, and the percentage of the total depends on age, species, and turnover rates (Poorter et al., 2012).”
The role of complementarity and selection effects in P acquisition of intercropping systems (2017, background): “In addition, P concentration responses to experimental treatments like fertilization in shoots are often mirrored in roots (Poorter et al. 2012).”