Effects of warming on fine root lifespan of forests: A review

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.202306.007

Abstract

Abstract: As an important parameter of forests growth, fine root lifespan plays an important role in plant water and nutrient absorption, and affects underground distribution of photosynthetic products and forest ecosystem carbon cycling. The impact of climate warming on fine root lifespan has become a hot issue under the context of global change. The responses of fine root lifespan to global warming will affect ecosystem carbon balance. We reviewed the research progress of the response characteristics and mechanism of fine root lifespan of trees to warming. Most stu-dies proposed that warming would affect fine root lifespan by changing rhizosphere soil environment, fine root morphology, and tree phenology. However, the growth and death of fine roots were affected by lots of factors, leading to differences in the research results on fine root lifespan due to natural environment of the study area, the way of warming, and the research objects. Therefore, it is of importance to comprehensively analyze the responses of fine root lifespan in forests under the background of climate warming to study the underground ecological process. In the future, the following research should be strengthened: 1) Combining multiple methods to warming underground and aboveground simutaneously, and explore more accurate and effective non-destructive observation methods. 2) Combining multiple observations to study the effects of warming on fine root lifespan. 3) Carrying out research on the effect of warming on fine root lifespan of different tree species, and deeply understand the response mechanism of fine root lifespan of different trees to warming. 4) A comprehensive analysis of the effects of warming on fine root lifespan from various perspectives, and an investigation into the mechanism of the combined effects of various factors on fine root lifespan. 5) The interaction between warming and other environmental factors fine root lifespan. 6) The effect of root architecture on the fine root lifespan after warming. 7) The effects of rhizosphere microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) on fine root lifespan after warming.

Key words: warming, fine root lifespan, carbon allocation, rhizosphere environment, impact mechanism

LIU Yuanhao, DU Xulong, HUANG Jinxue, XIONG Decheng. Effects of warming on fine root lifespan of forests: A review[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2023, 34(6): 1693-1702.

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