The shape of root systems in a mountain meadow: plastic responses or species-specific architectural blueprints?

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F22%3A00562238" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/22:00562238 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/22:10456629 RIV/60460709:41330/22:91669
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18132" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18132</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.18132" target="_blank" >10.1111/nph.18132</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The shape of root systems in a mountain meadow: plastic responses or species-specific architectural blueprints?
Original language description
We found remarkable diversity in root system shapes, from cylindrical to conical. Interspecific differences in rooting depths in pots were the main determinant of rooting depths in the field, whereas differences in foraging ability played only a minor role. Although some species with strong foraging ability did place their roots into nutrient-rich soil layers, it was not a universal pattern. The results imply that although the vertical differentiation of grassland species is pronounced, it is primarily not driven by the differential plastic response of species to soil nutrient gradients. This may constrain the coexistence of species with similar rooting depths and may instead favour coexistence of species differing in their architectural blueprints.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-02901S" target="_blank" >GA20-02901S: Community diversity as a response and as a driver: Exploiting long-term experiments to address functional roles of diversity</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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