Brenda B. Casper

TL;DR: In this paper, a plant-soil feedback model is proposed to explain succession, invasion, response to climate warming and diversity-productivity relationships in terrestrial ecosystems, and how terrestrial ecosystems respond to global land use and climate change.

TL;DR: Competitive ability in belowground competition is correlated with such attributes as root density, surface area, and plasticity either in root growth or in the properties of enzymes involved in nutrient uptake.

TL;DR: In this article, a plant-soil feedback model has been proposed to explain succession, invasion, response to climate warming and diversity-productivity relationships in terrestrial ecosystems, and to predict consequences of these interactions under a variety of conditions.

TL;DR: Great variation among these species, including increasing, constant, decreasing, humped and bowed trajectories for both long- and short-lived species, challenges theoreticians to develop broader perspectives on the evolution of ageing and empiricists to study the demography of more species.

TL;DR: Data is reviewed suggesting that at least in certain cases, architectural constraints affect the range of morphological plasticity that can be expressed and it is postulate that when these constraints are present, plants consist not only of morphology subunits but, as Adams (4) first suggested, of physiological subunits as well.