We don’t often think about the roots of trees until there is a problem. A forester friend of mine called it a “fencepost mentality.” Being underground, they are often out of sight out of mind. However ...

Recent efforts to understand how functional traits are organized across land plants have revealed notable patterns across the leaf economic spectrum 5,6, but whether such a high degree of organization ...

I also hinted that I had a killer solution to the root-finding problem, and promised to show it to you some day. That day has arrived. I first wrote about this problem in 1994.[1,2,3] Those of you ...