Ivano Brunner

TL;DR: Current knowledge about responses of tree roots to drought supports the view that tree roots are well equipped to withstand drought situations and maintain morphological and physiological functions as long as possible.

TL;DR: It is suggested that SRL can be used successfully as an indicator of nutrient availability to trees in experimental conditions after meta-analyses showed that S RL decreased significantly under fertilization and Al-stress and responded negatively to reduced light, elevated temperature and CO2.

TL;DR: It is found that below-ground traits with widest importance in plant and ecosystem functioning are not those most commonly measured, and advocate that establishing causal hierarchical links among root traits will provide a hypothesis-based framework to identify the most parsimonious sets of traits with strongest influence on the functions, and to link genotypes to plant andcosystem functioning.

TL;DR: The results showed that there exists a strong relationship between the fine root biomass and the above-ground biomass, and that the root biomass of deciduous trees is higher than that of conifers.

TL;DR: Redundancy analysis indicated that base saturation, pH, soil C and N contents and plant coverage, all related to soil age, correlated with the microbial succession along the forefield.