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Plant phenotypic plasticity belowground: a phylogenetic perspective on root foraging trade-offs.

The American naturalist - 1 Aug 2005

Kembel Steven W, Cahill James F

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Many plants proliferate roots in nutrient patches, presumably increasing nutrient uptake and plant fitness. Nutrient heterogeneity has been hypothesized to maintain community diversity because of a trade-off between the spatial extent over which plants forage (foraging scale) and their ability to proliferate roots precisely in nutrient patches (foraging precision). Empirical support for this hypothesis has been...

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PMID: 16032575
DOI: 10.1086/431287

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