Projektnummer

0063808

Zusammenfassung

Natural root grafting could play a pivotal role in resource sharing among tree networks since it can be interpreted as collaborative behaviour as known for superorganisms. It will be necessary to survey systematically under which conditions resource sharing via grafting will be beneficial for trees instead of exploiting a limited resource alone. Logistic problems hinder the latter so far, since it requires a non-destructive mapping of grafted root interaction networks (GRIN) along gradients of resource limitations, as well as the quantification of the ecological benefits at the relevan...