Definition: the unit that enters the soil. Kleyer, M., Bekker, R.M., Knevel, I.C., Bakker, J.P., Thompson, K., Sonnenschein, M., Poschlod, P., Van Groenendael, J.M., Klimes, L., Klimesová, J., Klotz, S., Rusch, G.M., Hermy, M., Adriaens, D., Boedeltje, G., Bossuyt, B., Dannemann, A., Endels, P., Götzenberger, L., Hodgson, J.G., Jackel, A.-K., Kühn, I., Kunzmann, D., Ozinga, W.A., Römermann, C., Stadler, M., Schlegelmilch, J., Steendam, H.J., Tackenberg, O., Wilmann, B., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Eriksson, O., Garnier, E. and Peco, B. (2008), The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora. Journal of Ecology, 96: 1266-1274. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01430.x
Definition: the unit that disperses, e.g. an unit of seed, fruit, spore or a shoot or root fragment. Synonymes of dispersule are propagule and diaspore. Pérez-Harguindeguy N., Díaz S., Garnier E., Lavorel S., Poorter H., Jaureguiberry P., Bret-Harte M. S., Cornwell W. K., Craine J. M., Gurvich D. E., Urcelay C., Veneklaas E. J., Reich P. B., Poorter L., Wright I. J., Ray P., Enrico L., Pausas J. G., de Vos A. C., Buchmann N., Funes G., Quétier F., Hodgson J. G., Thompson K., Morgan H. D., ter Steege H., van der Heijden M. G. A., Sack L., Blonder B., Poschlod P., Vaieretti M. V., Conti G., Staver A. C., Aquino S., Cornelissen J. H. C. (2013) New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide. Australian Journal of Botany 61, 167-234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/BT12225 (adapted)
Definition: Undecayed plant tissues, and their partial decomposition products
Definition: Downed, dead tree or shrub boles, large limbs, and other woody pieces that are severed from their original source of growth
Definition: Roots that have undergone secondary thickening and have a woody structure.
Definition: Roots =< 2mm diameter; McCormack et al. 2015 suggest to further distinguish fine roots by root order (1st to 4 th order) or by root function to absorptive fine roots (often 1st - 3rd order) and transport fine roots (often 4th order)
Definition: Groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations, which are reproductively isolated from other such groups
Definition: Cellulose ocurring in plants is a mixture of crystalline cellulose (CHEBI:crystalline cellulose) and amorphous cellulose (CHEBI:amorphous cellulose)
Definition: The term sugar summarises the group of water soluble saccharides: mono-, di-, tri-, oligo-, or polymers of aldoses and ketoses with at least two hydroxy groups.