Root Community Traits: Scaling-Up and Incorporating Roots Into Ecosystem Functional Analyses

College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, 2 Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 4 Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun, China

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