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

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100 Citations (Scopus)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8-11
Number of pages4
JournalNew Phytologist
Volume217
Issue number1
Early online date23 Oct 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2018

Bibliographical note

The authors thank the many collaborators involved in data collection, in particular Grahame Applegate, John Larmour,Anthony O’Grady, Peter Ritson, and Tivi Theiveyanthan. The authors acknowledge the bodies that funded part of the data acquisition, including Australia’s Department of the Environment and Energy, Alterra Ltd, Fares Rural Pty Ltd. This study was supported by the FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF Marie-Curie Action–SPATFOREST and the NERC project (NE/N017854/1). The authors acknowledge Investissement d’Avenir grants of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (CEBA: ANR-10-LABX-25-01, TULIP:ANR-10-LABX-0041; ANAEE-France: ANR-11-INBS-0001).

Keywords

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

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