4.1 Article

Calcium availability affects the intrinsic water-use efficiency of temperate forest trees

Related references

Note: Only part of the references are listed.
Article Biodiversity Conservation

Global decadal variability of plant carbon isotope discrimination and its link to gross primary production

Alienor Lavergne et al.

Summary: The study addresses the variability of Delta C-13 in C-3 woody plants on decadal scales and across regions, and its relationship to gross primary production (GPP). Various leaf-internal CO2 concentration models tested tend to overestimate average Delta C-13 values and underestimate interannual variability. The least-cost model shows the lowest biases and improves predictions of canopy-level carbon and water fluxes.

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2022)

Article Ecology

Increasing calcium scarcity along Afrotropical forest succession

Marijn Bauters et al.

Summary: Biogeochemical analysis of secondary forest succession in lowland Central Africa suggests that calcium becomes scarcer and potentially limiting with stand age. Ecosystem calcium storage shifts from soil to woody biomass, making it a vulnerable and scarce nutrient.

NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION (2022)

Article Biodiversity Conservation

isocalcR: An R package to streamline and standardize stable isotope calculations in ecological research

Justin M. Mathias et al.

Summary: The use of stable isotopes to understand plant physiological processes has become common in ecology. However, there is currently no standardized tool to calculate isotope-derived plant physiological indices. In response, we developed isocalcR, an R package that provides functions and reference data to simplify the use of stable isotope data in plant tissues.

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2022)

Article Environmental Sciences

Increasing water-use efficiency mediates effects of atmospheric carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen on growth variability of central European conifers

Vaclav Treml et al.

Summary: Climate directly and indirectly controls forest biomass production through effects on cambial activity, CO2, air pollution, and nutrient availability. The increase in intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) since the 1950s has positively affected tree growth, with contributions from both climate and SN deposition trends. In Central Europe, the steep increase in iWUE of conifers in the 20th century can be explained by SN pollution in addition to other factors.

SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2022)

Article Biodiversity Conservation

Precipitation alters the CO2 effect on water-use efficiency of temperate forests

Soumaya Belmecheri et al.

Summary: The study reveals that, despite the continuous rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, tree physiological response in temperate forests of northeastern USA showed a steady increase in intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) from 1901 to 1975, but remained constant thereafter, indicating a passive physiological response to rising CO2 and a shift to wetter conditions in the region. The results challenge the mechanism, magnitude, and persistence of CO2's effect on iWUE, with important implications for projections of terrestrial productivity under a changing climate.

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2021)

Article Environmental Sciences

Effect of nitrogen deposition on centennial forest water-use efficiency

Mana Gharun et al.

Summary: The study reveals that nitrogen deposition has a significant impact on long-term WUEi in areas with high nitrogen deposition levels, with a decline in N deposition leading to a reduction in the ratio of WUEi increase in response to CO2. This suggests that the role of atmospheric pollution must be reconsidered in interpretation of tree ring studies and building environmental proxies.

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2021)

Article Plant Sciences

Altered plant carbon partitioning enhanced forest ecosystem carbon storage after 25 years of nitrogen additions

Brooke A. Eastman et al.

Summary: Decades of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the northeastern USA have enhanced forest carbon sink by shifting carbon partitioning and reducing the cost of nitrogen acquisition. This study demonstrates how plant responses to nitrogen additions may result in greater carbon storage in both vegetation and soil at the watershed scale.

NEW PHYTOLOGIST (2021)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Global tree intrinsic water use efficiency is enhanced by increased atmospheric CO2 and modulated by climate and plant functional types

Justin M. Mathias et al.

Summary: A meta-analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes from tree ring chronologies across 10 biomes reveals a global increase in tree intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) of approximately 40% since 1901, largely driven by the increase in atmospheric CO2. Increases in net photosynthesis (A(net)) dominated the observed increased iWUE in about 83% of cases, with reductions in stomatal conductance (g(s)) occurring in the remaining approximately 17%.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2021)

Article Plant Sciences

Climate and functional traits jointly mediate tree water-use strategies

Victor Flo et al.

Summary: Tree water use and whole-tree canopy conductance are coordinated with water-relations traits rather than with climate, as shown in the study using a global sap flow database. Species with efficient xylem transport have higher canopy conductance but also higher sensitivity to vapor pressure deficit. The results highlight the complexity of defining a single, whole-plant resource use spectrum.

NEW PHYTOLOGIST (2021)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

GABA signalling modulates stomatal opening to enhance plant water use efficiency and drought resilience

Bo Xu et al.

Summary: The study shows that GABA production in guard cells of Arabidopsis reduces stomatal opening and transpirational water loss, thereby enhancing water use efficiency. This highlights a novel role for GABA metabolism in fine tuning plant physiology and offers new possibilities for enhancing plant stress resilience.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2021)

Article Forestry

Arctic aerosols and the 'Divergence Problem' in dendroclimatology

Ulf Buntgen et al.

DENDROCHRONOLOGIA (2021)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

CO2, nitrogen deposition and a discontinuous climate response drive water use efficiency in global forests

Mark A. Adams et al.

Summary: This study investigates the control of global climate change on plant water use efficiency, revealing an aridity threshold that impacts it. Using a global tree-ring dataset, the authors emphasize the importance of distinguishing between water-limited and non-water-limited behaviors for improving hydrological models.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2021)

Article Biodiversity Conservation

Strong overestimation of water-use efficiency responses to rising CO2in tree-ring studies

William Marchand et al.

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2020)

Article Environmental Sciences

Diminishing CO2-driven gains in water-use efficiency of global forests

Mark A. Adams et al.

NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE (2020)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Intensified vegetation water use under acid deposition

Matthew Lanning et al.

SCIENCE ADVANCES (2019)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Disentangling the role of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance on rising forest water-use efficiency

Rossella Guerrieri et al.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2019)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Plant acclimation to long-term high nitrogen deposition in an N-rich tropical forest

Xiankai Lu et al.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2018)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Integrating effects of species composition and soil properties to predict shifts in montane forest carbon-water relations

Toby M. Maxwell et al.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2018)

Article Statistics & Probability

Interval estimation for the breakpoint in segmented regression: a smoothed score-based approach

Vito M. R. Muggeo

AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF STATISTICS (2017)

Article Environmental Sciences

Predicting sulphur and nitrogen deposition using a simple statistical method

Filip Oulehle et al.

ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT (2016)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Natural and anthropogenic drivers of calcium depletion in a northern forest during the last millennium

Berangere A. Leys et al.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2016)

Article Plant Sciences

The Evolution of Mechanisms Driving the Stomatal Response to Vapor Pressure Deficit

Scott A. M. McAdam et al.

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (2015)

Article Environmental Sciences

Pollution control enhanced spruce growth in the Black Triangle near the Czech-Polish border

Tomas Kolar et al.

SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2015)

Article Environmental Sciences

Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

D. C. Frank et al.

NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE (2015)

Article Biodiversity Conservation

Tree mineral nutrition is deteriorating in Europe

Mathieu Jonard et al.

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2015)

Article Ecology

Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context

Ulf Buentgen et al.

FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (2014)

Article Biodiversity Conservation

Spatial variability and temporal trends in water-use efficiency of European forests

Matthias Saurer et al.

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2014)

Article Plant Sciences

The world-wide 'fast-slow' plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

Peter B. Reich

JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY (2014)

Article Plant Sciences

Advances in measurements and models of photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination in C3 plants

Nerea Ubierna et al.

PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT (2014)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise

Trevor F. Keenan et al.

NATURE (2013)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Decreased water flowing from a forest amended with calcium silicate

Mark B. Green et al.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2013)

Review Plant Sciences

Calcium delivery and storage in plant leaves: exploring the link with water flow

Matthew Gilliham et al.

JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY (2011)

Review Geography, Physical

On the 'Divergence Problem' in Northern Forests: A review of the tree-ring evidence and possible causes

Rosanne D'Arrigo et al.

GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE (2008)

Article Biodiversity Conservation

Testing for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps

Ulf Buentgen et al.

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2008)

Article Geography, Physical

Stable isotopes in tree rings

D McCarroll et al.

QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS (2004)

Review Plant Sciences

Calcium signalling in stomatal responses to pollutants

MR McAinsh et al.

NEW PHYTOLOGIST (2002)

Article Plant Sciences

Improved temperature response functions for models of Rubisco-limited photosynthesis

CJ Bernacchi et al.

PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT (2001)