Root foraging strategies and soil patchiness in a humid savanna

Plant and Soil

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 171-176

  Mordelet, P ^a   Barot, S ^a   Abbadie, L ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Borassus aethiopum; Cote d'Ivoire; foraging; heterogeneity; humid savanna; Lamto; nutrients; root; spatial structure; West Africa

Indexed keywords

FORAGING STRATEGY; HUMID SAVANNA; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PALM; ROOT; SOIL PATCHINESS;

COTE D'IVOIRE, LAMTO;

BORASSUS AETHIOPUM;

EID: 0029660994     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00011005     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Abbadie L, Lepage M and Le Roux X 1992a Soil fauna at the forest-savanna boundary: role of the termite mounds in nutrient cycling. In Nature and Dynamics of Forest Savanna Boundaries. Eds. P A Furley, J Proctor and J A Ratter, pp 473-484. Chapman and Hall, London UK.
2. Abbadie L, Mariotti A and Menaut J-C 1992b Independence of savanna grasses from soil organic matter for their nitrogen supply. Ecology 73, 608-613.
3. Bate G C 1981 Nitrogen cycling in savanna ecosystems. In Terrestrial Nitrogen Cycles. Eds. F E Clark and T Roswall, pp 463-475. Ecol. Bull., Stockholm, Sweden.
4. Berntson G M 1994 Modelling root architecture: are there tradeoffs between efficiency and potential of resource acquisition? New Phytol. 127, 483-493.