Gordon G. McNickle

TL;DR: This work demonstrates that a shift in microbial metabolic response to different substrate inputs from plants is a plausible mechanism leading to positive or negative RPEs and suggests that the RPE may have resulted from an evolutionarily stable mutualistic association between plants and rhizosphere microbes.

TL;DR: Plant root growth is modified in the presence of within-species competition and uneven local resource distributions, and plants with competitors and heterogeneous resource distributions reduced their root growth only modestly, indicating that plants integrate information about both neighbor and resource distributions in determining their root behavior.

TL;DR: It is suggested that this complexity calls for novel approaches to understanding nutrient foraging by plants, and that resource selection functions are commonly used by animal behaviorists and may be useful to describe plant foraging strategies.

TL;DR: A basic plant-centered model is developed that incorporates modular growth and foraging currencies relevant to plant growth and demonstrates how this new foundation could be adapted to address five fundamental questions in plant foraging ecology.

TL;DR: The contributions of game theory to plant ecology are reviewed to provide an accessible entrance to game theory that will help plant ecologists enrich their research with its worldview and existing predictions.