Tao Sun

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: A major aim of this guide is to help break down barriers between the many subdisciplines of root ecology and ecophysiology, broaden researchers’ views on the multiple aspects of root study and create favourable conditions for the inception of comprehensive experiments on the role of roots in plant and ecosystem functioning.

TL;DR: It was found that decomposition rates of root tips were considerably lower than those of leaf litter and were controlled by nonlignin carbon compounds in contrast to lignin:nitrogen ratio control over leaf litter decomposition, which challenged current ecosystem C models.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors validated seven global moderate resolution leaf area index (LAI) products (EPS, GEOV2, GLASS, GLOBMAP, MODIS, PROBA-V, and VIIRS) over typical agricultural croplands in northeastern China.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of nitrogen (N) on root decomposition were investigated in three temperate forests, and the authors found that N addition has contrasting effects on the dynamics of different carbon pools in forest soils and such contrasting effects should be widely considered in biogeochemical models.