Do understory saplings respond to both light and below-ground competitio?: a field experiment in a north-eastern American hardwood forest and a literature review

A clear decrease in soil water content at a depth of 10 m from 43 to 56 months after planting in our study showed that scarce very deep roots may have an important functional role

Requir ed wea ther condit ions Expenditure of time Postprocess ing effor t Price for instruments A dvantages Disadvanta ges Allom etric relations Direct LAI, P A I, individual tree

& Methods At three sites in southern Sweden, the effects of four soil preparation treatments (no soil preparation, patch scarification, mounding, soil inversion) in combination

The table includes: authors, types of treatment applied to separate the below-ground effects from the above-ground effect, types of forest and soil conditions of the study, tree

We assessed the mediating effects of multiple attributes of plant biodiversity (taxonomic, phylogenetic, functional, and stand structural) and soil biodiversity (bacteria

The leaf dry matter content at the plant scale ( LDMC ps ) was calculated by dividing the total fresh biomass of the whole leaves (petiole + leaf blade, including the leaves used

Abstract. Plant diversification is a promising mean to enhance ecological pest regulation occurring through food webs. However, the complexity of interactions in diversified

Three cropping systems were compared: (1) rotation of upland rice followed by maize intercropped with Crotalaria grahamiana, with no tillage (R-MC_NT), (2) rotation of rice