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TREE PHYSIOLOGY
卷 42, 期 12, 页码 2468-2479出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpac081
关键词
biomass allocation; elevational gradients; functional equilibrium; phosphorus; root functional traits
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资金
- Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31822010, 31971633, 32192432]
- '0-1' Original Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [ZDBS-LY-DQCO23]
This study developed a new framework to understand the variation in root and symbiotic fungi of rubber trees. Results showed that root system architecture and productivity played a leading role in belowground resource acquisition, while mycorrhizal colonization was sensitive to elevation changes.
When it comes to root and mycorrhizal associations that define resource acquisition strategy, there is a need to identify the leading dimension across root physiology, morphology, architecture and whole plant biomass allocation to better predict the plant's responses to multiple environmental constraints. Here, we developed a new framework for understanding the variation in roots and symbiotic fungi by quantifying multiple-scale characteristics, ranging from anatomy to the whole plant. We chose the rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) grown at three elevations to test our framework and to identify the key dimensions for resource acquisition. Results showed that the quantities of absorptive roots and root system architecture, rather than single root traits, played the leading role in belowground resource acquisition. As the elevation increased from the low to high elevation, root length growth, productivity and root mass fraction (RMF) increased by 2.9-, 2.3- and 13.8-fold, respectively. The contribution of RMF to the changes in total root length was 3.6-fold that of specific root length (SRL). Root architecture exhibited higher plasticity than anatomy and morphology. Further, mycorrhizal colonization was highly sensitive to rising elevations with a non-monotonic pattern. By contrast, both leaf biomass and specific leaf area (traits) co-varied with increasing elevation. In summary, rubber trees changed root system architecture by allocating more biomass and lowering the reliance on mycorrhizal fungi rather than improving single root efficiency in adapting to high elevation. Our framework is instructive for traits-based ecology; accurate assessments of forest carbon cycling in response to resource gradient should account for the leading dimension of root system architecture.
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