ArticleGlobal change biology2025
Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios.
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- Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Comprehensive evaluation of maize germplasm for alkali tolerance during germination.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
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The distribution of assimilated carbon (C) among roots, stems, and leaves is a central process in terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. Yet the biomass allocation schemes used in current global vegetation and land surface models pre-date the existence of large plant-trait data sets and remain largely untested. Here we formulate hypotheses on the controls of root: shoot biomass ratios (R:S), based on eco-evolutionary optimality principles, and assess them quantitatively by analysing data on nearly 30,000 observations of R:S. We analysed global R:S patterns using multiple linear regression models for woody and herbaceous species separately, considering as candidate predictors growing-season mean temperature (T
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