• Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation 

      Freschet, Grégoire T; Valverde-Barrantes, Oscar J.; Tucker, Caroline M.; Craine, Joesph M.; McCormack, Luke M.; Violle, Cyrille; Fort, Florian; Blackwood, Christopher; Urban-Mead, Katherine R.; Iversen, Colleen M.; Bonis, Anne; Comas, Louis H.; Cornelissen, Johannes H.C.; Dong, Ming; Guo, Dali; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Holdaway, Robert J.; Kembel, Steven W.; Makita, Naoki; Onipchenko, Vladimir G.; Picon-Cochard, Catherine; Reich, Peter B.; de la Riva, Enrique G.; Smith, Stuart; Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A.; Tjoelker, Mark G.; Wardle, David A; Roumet, Catherine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      1.Ecosystem functioning relies heavily on belowground processes, which are largely regulated by plant fine-roots and their functional traits. However, our knowledge of fine-root trait distribution relies to date on local- ...