The nature of the soil is shaped by presence roots and microbiota. Bacteria, archaea fungi profoundly alter plant growth and, in turn, depend on root exudation carbon-rich energy-yielding compounds. microbial communities act as facilitators processes secreting regulators, solubilizing minerals, providing N for growth, altering immune responses competing with pathogens. Characterizing engineerin...

Spectroscopy at the leaf and canopy scales has attracted considerable interest in plant ecology over past decades. Using reflectance spectra, ecologists can infer traits strategies—and community- or ecosystem-level processes they correlate with—at individual community levels, covering more individuals larger areas than traditional field surveys. Because of complex entanglement structural chemic...