Claim · model-written summary
Competition may enforce resource partitioning via rooting at different depths.
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e0“competition may have the potential to enforce resource partitioning between coexisting plant species by inducing different species to root at different depths to each other”
Title
Interspecific interactions and biomass allocation among grassland plant species
David A. Wardle; Duane A. Peltzer Oikos 2003. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12030.x
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Mixture growth suppressed production more often than it stimulated production.
- Observation Different plant species shifted allocation to shoots or roots at different depths.
- Association Interspecific interactions could increase deep-to-shallow root ratio.
- Association Interspecific interactions could decrease deep-to-shallow root ratio.