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Fine root traits are critical to plant nutrition and water uptake, and soil nutrient cycling. The impacts of climate warming on woody plants are predicted to be severe, but the effects on the fine root traits of woody plants remain unclear. To evaluate the effects of warming on fine-root traits of woody plants, we synthesized 431 paired observations of 13 traits from 78 studies. The result showed that warming increased the fine root nitrogen (N) concentration, root mortality, and root respiration, but decreased fine root phosphorus (P) concentration, root C:N and root nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC) concentration. However, warming had no significant effect on fine root biomass, root production and morphological traits. Warming effects on fine root biomass and root diameter decreased with warming magnitude, while root P concentration increased. Moreover, with increasing warming duration, the effect size of specific root length (SRL), root length, root C:N and root NSC increased. The effects size of root biomass, root diameter, root length and root C:N decreased with mean annual temperature (MAT) and mean annual precipitation (MAP) increase. However, the effect size of root N conce

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Author

Xiaoxiang Zhao; Qiuxiang Tian; Anders Michelsen; Mengzhen Lu; Boshen Ren; Lin Huang; Rudong Zhao

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)