The mysterious root length

By Peter Ryser. Plant and Soil, 2006

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Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Plant Science

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The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly (2014, background): “Roots are perhaps the most mysterious of plants organs (Ryser 2006), but our understanding of root function is rapidly improving (Eshel & Beeckman 2013).”
Root functional parameters along a land‐use gradient: evidence of a community‐level economics spectrum (2015, background): “…could also reflect a response of these species to less fertile conditions with SRL increasing in response to nutrient limitations, a pattern observed both at the species (Tjoelker et al. 2005; Ryser 2006; Poorter et al. 2012) and at the community level (Zangaro et al. 2008; Holdaway et al. 2011).”
Linking root traits to plant physiology and growth in Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl. seedlings under soil compaction conditions (2012, background): “are still many gaps in some aspects (for example, variations in specific root length with soil conditions, the different response with different abiotic factors, the relationships of root anatomy to root and plant physiology or the ecological significance of variation in root morphology) (Ryser, 200”
Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora (2010, background): “4c) might stem from the somewhat different meanings plant traits carry depending on the environmental context but also across plant types and clades (Ryser 2006; Lusk et al. 2008).”
Specific root length as an indicator of environmental change (2007, background): “Ryser ( 2006 ) provides a short overview of the sometimes contradictory responses of SRL (and in root morphology in general) to soil conditions.”
A multi‐trait test of the leaf‐height‐seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora (2010, background): “Given the meth- odological problems with measuring SRL (Ryser 2006), other metrics may be better indicators of root function.”
Sampling roots to capture plant and soil functions (2017, background): “…whereas traits measured on entire root systems of nonwoody plants represent synthetic values of whole-plant investment towards soil exploration/exploitation that is maintained at a given time (Ryser 2006), it is not the case of woody root systems with continuous secondary biomass increments.”