期刊
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 215, 期 4, 页码 1387-1398出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14668
关键词
growth; hydraulic limitation; moisture supply and demand; soil moisture; soil-plant-atmosphere continuum; tree; vapor pressure deficit; water potential
资金
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program [DGE-1049562]
- McIntire-Stennis Funds via the Montana EPSCoR Program
- Montana Institute on Ecosystems, National Science Foundation [DEB-1457720]
- National Institutes of General Medical Sciences IDeA Program grant [GM110732]
- Office Of The Director
- Office of Integrative Activities [1443108] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Tree radial growth is often systematically limited by water availability, as is evident in tree ring records. However, the physiological nature of observed tree growth limitation is often uncertain outside of the laboratory. To further explore the physiology of water limitation, we observed intra-annual growth rates of four conifer species using point dendrometers and microcores, and coupled these data to observations of water potential, soil moisture, and vapor pressure deficit over 2 yr in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA. The onset of growth limitation in four species was well explained by a critical balance between soil moisture supply and atmospheric demand representing relatively mesic conditions, despite the timing of this threshold response varying by up to 2 months across topographic and elevation gradients, growing locations, and study years. Our findings suggest that critical water deficits impeding tissue growth occurred at relatively high water potential values, often occurring when hydrometeorological conditions were relatively wet during the growing season (e.g. in early spring in some cases). This suggests that species-specific differences in water use strategies may not necessarily affect tree growth, and that tissue growth may be more directly linked to environmental moisture conditions than might otherwise be expected.
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