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Fine-root Competition

Fine-Root Competition is a ecological interaction representing the asymmetric contest among plants for limiting soil resources, differentiated by the preferential acquisition of nutrients and water through the proliferation and strategic placement of fine roots in resource-rich soil microsites.

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IMPACTS OF ROOT COMPETITION IN FORESTS AND WOODLANDS: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTS

David A. Coomes, P. J. Grubb · Ecological Monographs · 2000 · 677 citations

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MORPHOLOGICAL PLASTICITY AND MINERAL NUTRIENT CAPTURE IN TWO HERBACEOUS SPECIES OF CONTRASTED ECOLOGY

Joan Crick, J. P. Grime · New Phytologist · 1987 · 326 citations · Full text

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Building a better foundation: improving root‐trait measurements to understand and model plant and ecosystem processes

Michael McCormack, Dali Guo, Colleen M. Iversen et al. · New Phytologist · 2017 · 256 citations · Full text

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Interspecific competition impacts on the morphology and distribution of fine roots in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.)

Andreas Bolte, Ismael Villanueva · European Journal of Forest Research · 2005 · 250 citations

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Effects of root competition and canopy openness on survival and growth of tree seedlings in a tropical seasonal dry forest

Karin Gerhardt · Forest Ecology and Management · 1996 · 178 citations

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Authors

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  1. CL
    Christoph Leuschner

    University of Göttingen, Germany

    6 publications · 331 citations

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  2. PJ
    P. J. Grubb

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 879 citations

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  3. DA
    David A. Coomes

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 859 citations

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  4. DH
    Dietrich Hertel

    University of Göttingen, Germany

    4 publications · 182 citations

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  5. RP
    Ruidong Peng

    China Agricultural University, China

    2 publications · 40 citations

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Institutions

141

  1. University of Göttingen

    Göttingen, Germany

    8 h-index

    21 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    6 h-index

    31 publications

    1.7K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    1K citations

  4. Beijing Forestry University

    Beijing, China

    4 h-index

    19 publications

    517 citations

  5. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    859 citations

  6. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    1.3K citations

  7. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research

    Beijing, China

    4 h-index

    17 publications

    1.5K citations

  8. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    224 citations

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  1. Plant and Soil

    11 publications · 383 citations

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  2. Forest Ecology and Management

    6 publications · 459 citations

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  3. Ecology

    6 publications · 456 citations

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  4. Evolution

    4 publications · 295 citations

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  5. Oecologia

    3 publications · 144 citations

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