Endogenous and exogenous controls of root life span, mortality and nitrogen flux in a longleaf pine forest: root branch order predominates

By Dali Guo, R. Mitchell, Jennifer M. Withington, Pingping Fan, J. Hendricks. 2008

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Soil Science

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Fine-root morphological and growth traits in a Turkey-oak stand in relation to seasonal changes in soil moisture in the Southern Apennines, Italy (2012, result): “On the contrary, our results, similar to those reported by Eissenstat and Yanai (1997) and Guo et al. (2008), show that roots born in spring and winter generally live longer than roots born in summer and autumn.”
Microbially Mediated Plant Functional Traits (2011, background): “Work in temperate forests shows that mycorrhizae increased the lifespan of first-order Pinus palustris roots by 45% in two out of three study years (Guo et al., 2008).”
Very fine roots respond to soil depth: biomass allocation, morphology, and physiology in a broad-leaved temperate forest (2010, background): “Recent studies have shown that the branching order could be systematically linked to life span ( Guo et al. 2008a ), morphology (Pregitzer et al. 2002), and chemistry (Pregitzer et al. 2002; Guo et al. 2004).”
Anatomical traits associated with absorption and mycorrhizal colonization are linked to root branch order in twenty-three Chinese temperate tree species. (2008, background): “Their short lifespan, combined with their considerable biomass, make the first-order roots the biggest contributor to root turnover among all branch orders (Guo et al., 2008a,b).”
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Controls of Fine Root Life Span (2013, background): “, more distal fine roots generally have comparably smaller diameters than more proximal roots (Pregitzer et al., 1997; Guo et al., 2004; Guo et al., 2008; Valenzuela-Estrada et al., 2008).”
Decomposition of the finest root branching orders: linking belowground dynamics to fine-root function and structure (2011, background): “…pigmented roots to microbial decomposition is that these roots are typically heavily colonized by mycorrhizal fungi, which may have important chemical consequences for decomposers that are not captured by typical measures (Langley and Hungate 2003, Guo et al. 2008a, Valenzuela-Estrada et al. 2008).”
Measuring and modeling the spectrum of fine‐root turnover times in three forests using isotopes, minirhizotrons, and the Radix model (2010, methodology): “Future modeling efforts should examine: (1) the impacts of alternate or multiple mortality distributions [ Guo et al., 2008a; Luo, 2003]; (2) the inclusion of more pools, potentially based on branch order, and including roots >2 mm in diameter; and (3) impacts of stored C use on isotopic signatures”
Fine root biomass and dynamics in beech forests across a precipitation gradient – is optimal resource partitioning theory applicable to water‐limited mature trees? (2013, background): “Moreover, even in this small diameter category, root dynamics may differ among different fine root branch orders (Withington et al. 2006; Guo et al. 2008; Espeleta, West & Donovan 2009; Sun et al. 2011) due to their different physiological activity.”