Fine-root and mycorrhizal traits help explain ecosystem processes and responses to global change

New Phytol. 2014 Nov;204(3):455-458. doi: 10.1111/nph.13023.

Authors

M Luke McCormack¹, Emily Lavely², Zeqing Ma¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Synthesis Research Center of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
² Department of Plant Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

PMID: 25312610
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13023

No abstract available

Keywords: belowground; ecosystem ecology; hyphae; mycorrhiza; net primary productivity; rhizomorphs; root morphology; root production.

MeSH terms

Climate Change*
Ecosystem*
Mycorrhizae / physiology*
Plant Roots / microbiology*
Plant Roots / physiology*
Soil Microbiology