A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology.
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...C.M.I., M.L.M., and FRED were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program....
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...For the objective of this study, we selected fine roots only, as coarse roots are usually not absorptive and therefore less relevant in the context of root economics (42, 44)....
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...The GRooT database combines root trait observations from the Fine‐ Root Ecology Database (FRED) (42) and TRY (43) with additional datasets providing data measured on individual plants for which taxonomical information is available....
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...The sampling locations associated with each data point in FREDwere overlain on theK€oppen–Geiger climate classificationmap (Kottek et al., 2006) to determine the climate classification, and were then aggregated into tropical, temperate, boreal, and polar biomes according to Poulter et al. (2011)....
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...However, both empirical and modeling efforts focus on above-ground plant traits, with little consideration of below-ground traits and strategies (Wright et al., 2004; Verheijen et al., 2016)....
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...However, evidence for an RES is weak, perhaps in part because the RES has only been tested for 100 species (Roumet et al., 2016), while the leaf economics spectrum (LES) has been tested against > 10 000 species (Wright et al., 2004)....
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...Plant traits serve as proxies for plant functioning and performance, including survival, growth, and resource capture (Grime, 1974; Violle et al., 2007)....
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