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Traditionally, fine roots were grouped using arbitrary size categories, rarely capturing the heterogeneity in physiology, morphology and functionality among different fine root orders. Fine roots with different functional roles are rarely separated in microbiome‐focused studies and may result in confounding microbial signals and host‐filtering across different root microbiome compartments. Using a...
Vertical root segregation and the resulting niche partitioning can be a key underpinning of species coexistence. This could result from substantial interspecific variations in root profiles and rooting plasticity in response to soil heterogeneity and neighbours, but they remain largely untested in forest communities.
In a diverse forest in subtropical China, we randomly sampled > 4000 root...