TY - JOUR AU1 - Zhou, Jun AU2 - Sun, Hongyang AU3 - Wang, Jipeng AU4 - He, Qingqing AU5 - Bing, Haijian AU6 - Wu, Yanhong AB - Plant Soil (2018) 433:1–5 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-018-3839-7 COMMENTARY Comments on Bunravelling community assemblages through multi-element stoichiometry in plant leaves and roots across primary successional stages in a glacier retreat area^ by Jiang et al. Jun Zhou & Hongyang Sun & Jipeng Wang & Qingqing He & Haijian Bing & Yanhong Wu Received: 17 July 2018 /Accepted: 3 October 2018 /Published online: 25 October 2018 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 Keywords Phosphorus limitation Available deglaciation^ is doubtful. Specifically, the limitation of . . . phosphorus Primary succession Stoichiometry ratios P to plant growth at the last stage of the succession (the Pedogenesis Chronosequence 120-year-old site) in the Hailuogou glacier foreland chronosequence is unlikely happening. There are three drawbacks in the discussion about P limitation in the paper of Jiang et al. (2018). First, the The paper entitled BUnravelling community assem- only direct proof presented by the authors in support of blages through multi-element stoichiometry in plant the P limitation at the last site, is the community- leaves and roots across primary successional stages in weighted mean N:P ratio of 20.1 for leaves (Jiang a glacier retreat area^ recently published in Plant and et al. 2018). Actually, this ratio is only a little TI - Comments on “unravelling community assemblages through multi-element stoichiometry in plant leaves and roots across primary successional stages in a glacier retreat area” by Jiang et al. JF - Plant and Soil DO - 10.1007/s11104-018-3839-7 DA - 2018-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/comments-on-unravelling-community-assemblages-through-multi-element-gUUna0ei0E SP - 1 EP - 5 VL - 433 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -