Fine root biomass, production, turnover rates, and nutrient contents in boreal forest ecosystems in relation to species, climate, fertility, and stand age: literature review …

ZY Yuan, HYH Chen - Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Fine roots< 2 mm in diameter play a key role in regulating the biogeochemical cycles of
ecosystems and are important to our understanding of ecosystem responses to global …

Impacts of environmental factors on fine root lifespan

ML McCormack, D Guo - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The lifespan of fast-cycling roots is a critical parameter determining a large flux of plant
carbon into soil through root turnover and is a biological feature regulating the capacity of a …

Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits

Z Ma, D Guo, X Xu, M Lu, RD Bardgett, DM Eissenstat… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Plant roots have greatly diversified in form and function since the emergence of the first land
plants,, but the global organization of functional traits in roots remains poorly understood …

Tamm Review: Deep fine roots in forest ecosystems: Why dig deeper?

A Germon, JP Laclau, A Robin, C Jourdan - Forest Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
While the number of studies dealing with fine root dynamics in deep soils layers (depth> 1
m) has increased sharply recently, the phenology, the morphology, the anatomy and the role …

Mechanical failure of fine root cortical cells initiates plant hydraulic decline during drought

IF Cuneo, T Knipfer, CR Brodersen… - Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Root systems perform the crucial task of absorbing water from the soil to meet the demands
of a transpiring canopy. Roots are thought to operate like electrical fuses, which break when …

Measuring fine root turnover in forest ecosystems

H Majdi, K Pregitzer, AS Moren, JE Nylund, G I. Ågren - Plant and soil, 2005 - Springer
Abstract Development of direct and indirect methods for measuring root turnover and the
status of knowledge on fine root turnover in forest ecosystems are discussed. While soil and …

Film mulching affects root growth and function in dryland maize-soybean intercrop**

W Zhang, S Li, Y Shen, S Yue - Field Crops Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the morphological response of maize roots in the presence of soybeans in
fields under varied water conditions is vital for identifying maize-dominant intercrop** …

Influence of environmental variability on root dynamics in northern forests

BW Brassard, HYH Chen… - Critical Reviews in Plant …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Plant root systems are highly dynamic over various temporal and spatial scales, and are
responsive to changes in environmental conditions. The objective of this review is to …

Fine‐root turnover patterns and their relationship to root diameter and soil depth in a 14C‐labeled hardwood forest

JD Joslin, JB Gaudinski, MS Torn, WJ Riley… - New …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Characterization of turnover times of fine roots is essential to understanding patterns of
carbon allocation in plants and describing forest C cycling. We used the rate of decline in the …