Root life spans of four grass species from habitats differing in nutrient availability

By T. V. D. Krift, F. Berendse. 2002

109 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Plant Science, Soil Science

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In Plant Science

1. L. Mommer
2. J. van Ruijven
3. H. de Kroon
4. W. H. van der Putten
5. G. D. De Deyn
6. F. Berendse
7. C. Raaijmakers
8. E. Visser

In Soil Science

1. L. Mommer
2. J. van Ruijven
3. H. de Kroon
4. W. H. van der Putten
5. Han Y. H. Chen
6. B. W. Brassard
7. G. D. De Deyn
8. A. Smit‐Tiekstra

Citations in the corpus

• Plant community development is affected by nutrients and soil biota (2004, background): “…(or late secondary successional) habitats often have longer lived and better defended leaves and roots than faster growing plants from more fertile, or earlier successional, habitats (Grime 1977; Bazzaz 1979; Chapin 1980; Coley 1988; Herms & Mattson 1992; Van der Krift & Berendse 2002).”
• Unveiling below‐ground species abundance in a biodiversity experiment: a test of vertical niche differentiation among grassland species (2010, background): “Given the high turnover rates of roots (Van der Krift & Berendse 2002), a higher root mass production will lead to increased organic matter input into the soil.”
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic Controls of Fine Root Life Span (2013, background): “Fine root life span is expected to be shorter when the availability of soil nutrients and water is comparably higher than lower (Eissenstat and Yanai, 1997; Espeleta and Donovan, 2002; Van der Krift and Berendse, 2002; West et al., 2003).”
• Root production is determined by radiation flux in a temperate grassland community (2004, background): “Roots in shaded plots had a much greater SRL, which in many species would reduce longevity (Wells & Eissenstat, 2001; Gill et al., 2002; Van der Krift & Berendse, 2002).”
• Root responses to nutrients and soil biota: drivers of species coexistence and ecosystem productivity (2012, background): “Given the high turnover rates of roots [average root life spans of grasses are between 3 months and 1 year (van der Krift & Berendse 2002)], a consistently higher root mass production in species mixtures will lead to increased carbon input into the soil.”