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TREE PHYSIOLOGY
卷 35, 期 10, 页码 1035-1046出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpv067
关键词
competition; drought; increment; plasticity; trade-off; water availability
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资金
- French National Forest Office
- French Ministry for Forests, Agriculture and Fisheries
- French Research Agency (ANR) through the 'Oracle' project (CEPS call)
Even-aged forest stands are competitive communities where competition for light gives advantages to tall individuals, thereby inducing a race for height. These same individuals must however balance this competitive advantage with height-related mechanical and hydraulic risks. These phenomena may induce variations in height-diameter growth relationships, with primary depen-dences on stand density and tree social status as proxies for competition pressure and access to light, and on availability of local environmental resources, including water. We aimed to investigate the effects of stand density, tree social status and water stress on the individual height-circumference growth allocation (Delta h-Delta c), in even-aged stands of Quercus petraea Liebl. (sessile oak). Within-stand Delta c was used as surrogate for tree social status. We used an original long-term experimental plot network, set up in the species production area in France, and designed to explore stand dynamics on a maximum density gradient. Growth allocation was modelled statistically by relating the shape of the Delta h-Delta c relationship to stand density, stand age and water deficit. The shape of the Delta h-Delta c relationship shifted from linear with a moderate slope in open-grown stands to concave saturating with an initial steep slope in closed stands. Maximum height growth was found to follow a typical mono-modal response to stand age. In open-grown stands, increasing summer soil water deficit was found to decrease height growth relative to radial growth, suggesting hydraulic constraints on height growth. A similar pattern was found in closed stands, the magnitude of the effect however lowering from suppressed to dominant trees. We highlight the high phenotypic plasticity of growth in sessile oak trees that further adapt their allocation scheme to their environment. Stand density and tree social status were major drivers of growth allocation variations, while water stress had a detrimental effect on height in the Delta h-Delta c allocation.
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