ArticleOpen life sciences2026
Trade-offs in survival strategies: root trait differentiation of trees and shrubs on the Jingpo Lake lava platform.
Article in Open life sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
To investigate the adaptive strategies of root functional traits in woody plants of different life forms on the Jingpo Lake lava platform towards heterogeneous habitats and provide reference for vegetation restoration strategies on lava platforms, this study examined 16 common woody plant species (12 trees and four shrubs) on the Jingpo Lake lava platform and measured the morphology and chemical properties of their primary to tertiary roots to investigate differences in root functional traits among plants of varying life forms. Trees and shrubs had the greatest variation in specific root length (SRL) (55.55 %-71.46 %) and the least variation in root carbon content (RCC), with all values below 5 %. Root diameter (RD), RCC and root carbon to nitrogen ratio (RC/N) for 1-3 order roots, and specific root surface area (SRA) for second-order roots were greater for trees compared with those for shrubs. Only the first-order root trait exhibited significant differences. Principal component (PC) 1 and PC2 of 1-3 order roots cumulatively explained 72.10 %, 71.60 %, and 67.20 % of the variance, respectively. Each sequence axis of first and second-order roots was positively correlated with SRL and SRA, and the third-order roots were negatively correlated with these traits. The soil total potassium content (STKC), soil total phosphorus content (STPC) and soil rapidly available phosphorus content (SAPC), had the greatest effect on plant root morphological traits. The findings suggest that in this study area, trees are more likely to adopt resource-conserving survival strategies, whereas shrubs tend to adopt resource-acquiring strategies.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.