Claim · model-written summary
Root:shoot ratio of the desert ephemerals decreased by 44.4% from the seedling to the flowering stage.
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t0“desert ephemeral plants”
e0“a 44.4% decrease in root: shoot ratio”
Title
Yang Yang; Weiguo Liu; Xi‐En Long; et al. Functional Ecology 2026. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.70374
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- Observation Rhizosphere metabolic space contracted by 86.4% across the ontogenetic shift.
- Observation Rhizosphere bacterial communities showed reduced α-diversity.
- Observation Rhizosphere bacterial co-occurrence networks became simplified.
- Observation Bacterial communities showed a predicted functional transition from carbon to nitrogen metabolism.
- Observation Keystone microbe–metabolite associations shifted from carbon-based linkages at the seedling stage to nitrogen-centric correlations at flowering.
- Mechanism Path modelling indicated that below-ground biomass was initially supported by broad bacterial niche width.
- Mechanism Path modelling indicated that flowering-stage above-ground biomass was directly driven by rhizosphere metabolites.