Tree size and climatic water deficit control root to shoot ratio in individual trees globally

Alicia Ledo; Keryn I. Paul; David F R P Burslem; John J. Ewel; Craig Barton; Michael Battaglia; Kim Brooksbank; Jennifer Carter; Tron Haakon Eid; Jacqueline R. England; Anthony Fitzgerald; Justin Jonson; Maurizio Mencuccini; Kelvin D. Montagu; Gregorio Montero; Wilson Ancelm Mugasha; Elizabeth Pinkard; Stephen Roxburgh; Casey M. Ryan; Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado; Stan Sochacki; Alison Specht; Daniel Wildy; Christian Wirth; Ayalsew Zerihun; Jérôme Chave

doi:10.1111/nph.14863

Tree size and climatic water deficit control root to shoot ratio in individual trees globally

Alicia Ledo, Keryn I. Paul, David F R P Burslem, John J. Ewel, Craig Barton, Michael Battaglia, Kim Brooksbank, Jennifer Carter, Tron Haakon Eid, Jacqueline R. England, Anthony Fitzgerald, Justin Jonson, Maurizio Mencuccini, Kelvin D. Montagu, Gregorio Montero, Wilson Ancelm Mugasha, Elizabeth Pinkard, Stephen Roxburgh, Casey M. Ryan, Ricardo Ruiz-PeinadoStan Sochacki, Alison Specht, Daniel Wildy, Christian Wirth, Ayalsew Zerihun, Jérôme Chave

Aberdeen Centre For Environmental Sustainability

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8-11
Number of pages	4
Journal	New Phytologist
Volume	217
Issue number	1
Early online date	23 Oct 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14863
Publication status	Published - Jan 2018

Keywords

Letter
aboveground biomass
aridity hypothesis
belowground biomass
carbon allocation
forest
plant biomass
trees

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Ledo, A., Paul, K. I., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Ewel, J. J., Barton, C., Battaglia, M., Brooksbank, K., Carter, J., Eid, T. H., England, J. R., Fitzgerald, A., Jonson, J., Mencuccini, M., Montagu, K. D., Montero, G., Mugasha, W. A., Pinkard, E., Roxburgh, S., Ryan, C. M., ... Chave, J. (2018). Tree size and climatic water deficit control root to shoot ratio in individual trees globally. New Phytologist, 217(1), 8-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14863

Ledo, A, Paul, KI, Burslem, DFRP, Ewel, JJ, Barton, C, Battaglia, M, Brooksbank, K, Carter, J, Eid, TH, England, JR, Fitzgerald, A, Jonson, J, Mencuccini, M, Montagu, KD, Montero, G, Mugasha, WA, Pinkard, E, Roxburgh, S, Ryan, CM, Ruiz-Peinado, R, Sochacki, S, Specht, A, Wildy, D, Wirth, C, Zerihun, A & Chave, J 2018, 'Tree size and climatic water deficit control root to shoot ratio in individual trees globally', New Phytologist, vol. 217, no. 1, pp. 8-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14863

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