Plant roots and the associated mycorrhizal fungal hyphae often selectively proliferate into
patchily distributed soil nutrient hotspots, but interactions between these two components of …

Despite the importance of fine roots for the acquisition of soil resources such as nitrogen and
water, the study of linkages between traits and both population and community dynamics …

Aims Soil legacies mediate interactions between native and introduced plants, contributing
to both invasion and biotic resistance to invasion. Given that nitrogen deposition can …

Despite decades of research documenting the consequences of naturalized and invasive
plant species on ecosystem functions, our understanding of the functional underpinnings of …

Roots contribute a large fraction of CO2 efflux from soils, yet the extent to which global
change factors affect root‐derived fluxes is poorly understood. We investigated how red …

Coastal wetlands are important carbon sinks globally, but their ability to store carbon hinges
on their nitrogen (N) supply and N uptake dynamics of dominant plant species. In terrestrial …

Fine-root morphological variables are often directly correlated with soil nutrient availability
and water absorption. Indirectly, these morphological variables could be related to nutrient …

To understand impacts of post-disturbance assembly mechanisms on the functional diversity
(FD) of plant communities, it is necessary to determine how the environment drives their …

Aims This study investigated maize-soil biota interactions as well as the soil legacy effects of
continuous monoculture (CM) on maize performance. Methods We conducted a glasshouse …

Invasive plant species are often able to alter soils in a way that benefits their own fitness
over that of native species. While interspecific competitions may drive species to acquire …