ArticleEcology and evolution2024
Variations in root architecture traits and their association with organ mass fraction of common annual ephemeral species in the desert of northern Xinjiang.
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- Trait-Mediated Variation in Seedling Performance in Costa Rican Successional Forests: Comparing Above-Ground, Below-Ground, and Allocation-Based Traits.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Variations in root architecture traits and their association with organ mass fraction of common annual ephemeral species in the desert of northern Xinjiang.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Discrepancy in coordination and variation of root and leaf traits among herbaceous and shrub species in the desert, China.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
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Abstract
The variation of plant traits is closely related to the trade-offs between resource acquisition and conservation, as well as the accumulation of biomass. However, there has been a lack of comprehensive insights into the variation patterns, phylogenetic conservatism, and covariation with biomass allocation of root system architecture in desert areas. We examined the root systems of 47 annual ephemeral species and evaluated their biomass allocation and six key root system architecture traits. Our results indicated that the variation in root traits mainly originated from interspecific variation (48.78%-99.76%), but intraspecific variation should not be ignored as to why the contribution rate of root tissue density (RTD) reached 51.22%. The six root traits were mainly loaded on the first and second axes of the principal component analysis (PCA), these traits mainly vary along two dimensions. The highest interspecific variation is in RTD (51.63%) and the lowest in topological index (TI; 5.92%). The intraspecific variation value and range of specific root length (SRL), specific root area (SRA), and RTD were significantly higher than TI (
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