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Interactions of SO2 with other environmental stresses in influencing leaf gas exchange.

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Atkinson, CJ; Winner, WE
Published in: Oecologia
October 1990

Leaves of two field growing co-occuring perennial shrubs (drought-deciduous Diplacus aurantiacus and the evergreen Heteromeles arbutifolia) from the Californian chaparral were exposed to small doses of SO2. During this exposure the leaf environment was manipulated to determine how the presence of SO2 alters the response of gas exchange to other environmental stresses. The data show that no direct changes in stomatal conductance (g) or net assimilation rate (A) could be attributed to short-term (7 h) SO2 (4.2 μmol m-3, 0.1 μl l-1) exposure. D. aurantiacus leaves possessed features which demonstrate that they were sensitive to changes in environment e.g. light flux and atmospheric relative humidity. The interspecific differences in stomatal sensitivity to water vapour were extremely important, as relative humidity is a major factor influencing carbon fixation and the rate of pollutant absorption. Conditions of high relative humidity and high xylem water potentials are suggested to pre-dispose leaves of D. aurantiacus to greater pollutant doses than the more stomatally-conservative evergreen, H. arbutifolia. In the presence of SO2 there was some indication of increased g for both D. aurantiacus and H. arbutifolia as ΔW became smaller. This SO2-effect was only obvious as increasing atmospheric humidity induced further stomatal opening. The important consequences of an SO2 enhanced g, were a reduction in WUE, which may cause earlier leaf abscission and a concomitant decline in productivity.

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Oecologia

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1432-1939

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0029-8549

Publication Date

October 1990

Volume

84

Issue

4

Start / End Page

500 / 505

Related Subject Headings

  • Ecology
  • 3109 Zoology
  • 3104 Evolutionary biology
  • 3103 Ecology
  • 0602 Ecology
 

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Atkinson, C. J., & Winner, W. E. (1990). Interactions of SO2 with other environmental stresses in influencing leaf gas exchange. Oecologia, 84(4), 500–505. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00328166
Atkinson, C. J., and W. E. Winner. “Interactions of SO2 with other environmental stresses in influencing leaf gas exchange.Oecologia 84, no. 4 (October 1990): 500–505. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00328166.
Atkinson CJ, Winner WE. Interactions of SO2 with other environmental stresses in influencing leaf gas exchange. Oecologia. 1990 Oct;84(4):500–5.
Atkinson, C. J., and W. E. Winner. “Interactions of SO2 with other environmental stresses in influencing leaf gas exchange.Oecologia, vol. 84, no. 4, Oct. 1990, pp. 500–05. Epmc, doi:10.1007/bf00328166.
Atkinson CJ, Winner WE. Interactions of SO2 with other environmental stresses in influencing leaf gas exchange. Oecologia. 1990 Oct;84(4):500–505.
Journal cover image

Published In

Oecologia

DOI

EISSN

1432-1939

ISSN

0029-8549

Publication Date

October 1990

Volume

84

Issue

4

Start / End Page

500 / 505

Related Subject Headings

  • Ecology
  • 3109 Zoology
  • 3104 Evolutionary biology
  • 3103 Ecology
  • 0602 Ecology