Reposted by Enrico Tordoni
When trees compete, they don’t all respond the same way: they become more similar aboveground, but more different belowground. Our new paper shows that these opposite trait shifts can both ease competition and help species coexist. 🌳 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Shifts in above‐ and below‐ground trait dissimilarity under competition mediate the future impact of neighbours
Our findings reveal complementary above- and below-ground shifts in multidimensional trait dissimilarity in response to neighbours, providing new insight into potential mechanisms by which plants dea...