Journal articleTree physiology · March 2026
With increasing tree height, leaf transpiration (EL) is increasingly restricted by path-length resistance and gravity's discount of the driving force of xylem water flow. The effect of height on leaf transpiration is nearly always assessed using chronosequ ...
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Journal articleAgricultural and Forest Meteorology · February 15, 2026
In forested regions dominated by management for timber production, quantifying biosphere-atmosphere exchange of mass and energy over accruing forests is essential for accurate estimates of water yield and carbon sequestration. Environmental conditions driv ...
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Journal articlePlant, cell & environment · October 2025
Plant hydraulics govern water transport linking root to mesophyll surfaces, affecting gas-exchange, survival and growth. Xylem and leaf structural and functional characteristics vary widely among Pinus species, even when growing under similar conditions. W ...
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Journal articleThe New phytologist · October 2025
The Granier-type thermal-dissipation method (TDM) is the most widely used sap-flow technique. However, its original calibration coefficients often underestimate high flow rates, limiting their generality. We derived TDM coefficients (scaling factors and ex ...
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Journal articleAgricultural and Forest Meteorology · May 1, 2025
Knowledge of plant hydraulics facilitates our understanding of the capabilities of forests to withstand droughts. This common-garden study quantified the hydraulic response to variation in sandy soil conductivity and atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD ...
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Journal articleThe Science of the total environment · November 2024
In many ecosystems, a large fraction of gross primary production is invested in mycorrhiza. Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) mycelium is involved in regulating soil carbon and nutrient cycling. However, little is known about how mycelial biomass, production and turno ...
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Journal articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · October 2024
Most measurements and models of forest carbon cycling neglect the carbon flux associated with the turnover of branch biomass, a physiological process quantified for other organs (fine roots, leaves, and stems). Synthesizing data from boreal, temperate, and ...
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Journal articleGlobal change biology · February 2024
Enhancement of net primary production (NPP) in forests as atmospheric [CO2 ] increases is likely limited by the availability of other growth resources. The Duke Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment was located on a moderate-ferti ...
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Journal articleGlobal change biology · February 2022
Elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2 ) typically increases aboveground growth in both growth chamber and free-air carbon enrichment (FACE) studies. Here we report on the impacts of eCO2 and nitrogen amendment on coarse root bioma ...
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Journal articleGlobal change biology · April 2020
Increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 ) concentrations are expected to lead to increases in the rate of tree biomass accumulation, at least temporarily. On the one hand, trees may simply grow faster under higher CO2 concentrati ...
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Journal articlePlant, cell & environment · November 2019
The ability to transport water through tall stems hydraulically limits stomatal conductance (gs ), thereby constraining photosynthesis and growth. However, some plants are able to minimize this height-related decrease in gs , regardle ...
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Journal articleAgricultural and Forest Meteorology · October 15, 2019
In boreal forests, carbon (C) uptake by understory may be too large to be ignored and too variable in space to be assumed a constant fraction of the ecosystem gross primary production. To improve estimates of understory production in these ecosystems, we n ...
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Journal articlePlant, cell & environment · May 2019
The genus Pinus has wide geographical range and includes species that are the most economically valued among forest trees worldwide. Pine needle length varies greatly among species, but the effects of needle length on anatomy, function, and coordination an ...
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Journal articleEuropean Journal of Forest Research · February 15, 2019
The assisted migration of resistant seeds and seedlings may be a key to mitigating the effects of climate change on the productivity and composition of forest ecosystems. These efforts require an understanding of the intraspecific variability in the respon ...
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Journal articleTree physiology · November 2018
A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of nitrogen (N) addition (0, 20, 40 g N m-2 year-1, N0, N20, N40, respectively) on the growth, and biomass accumulation and allocation of coniferous and deciduous (Picea asperata Mast. and Betula al ...
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Journal articleGlobal change biology · October 2018
Changes in evapotranspiration (ET) from terrestrial ecosystems affect their water yield (WY), with considerable ecological and economic consequences. Increases in surface runoff observed over the past century have been attributed to increasing atmospheric ...
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Journal articleAgricultural and Forest Meteorology. · September 2018
The forest hydrologic cycle is expected to have important feedback responses to climate change, impacting processes ranging from local water supply and primary productivity to global water and energy cycles. Here, we analyzed water budgets of pine forests ...
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Journal articleAdvances in Water Resources · September 1, 2018
Links between the carbon and water economies of plants are coupled by combining the biochemical demand for atmospheric CO2 with gas transfer through stomates, liquid water transport in the soil-xylem hydraulic system and sucrose export in the ph ...
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Journal articleGlobal change biology · September 2017
We evaluated the effect on soil CO2 efflux (FCO2 ) of sudden changes in photosynthetic rates by altering CO2 concentration in plots subjected to +200 ppmv for 15 years. Five-day intervals of exposure to elevated ...
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Journal articleGlobal change biology · May 2017
Models predicting ecosystem carbon dioxide (CO2 ) exchange under future climate change rely on relatively few real-world tests of their assumptions and outputs. Here, we demonstrate a rapid and cost-effective method to estimate CO2 ex ...
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Journal articlePlant, cell & environment · January 2017
The importance of organic nitrogen (N) for plant nutrition and productivity is increasingly being recognized. Here we show that it is not only the availability in the soil that matters, but also the effects on plant growth. The chemical form of N taken up, ...
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Journal articleAgricultural and forest meteorology. · January 2017
While the significance of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration on instantaneous leaf-level processes such as photosynthesis and transpiration is rarely disputed, its integrated effect at ecosystem level and at long-time scales remains a subject of debate ...
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Journal articleEcological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · January 2017
Canopy transpiration (EC ) is a large fraction of evapotranspiration, integrating physical and biological processes within the energy, water, and carbon cycles of forests. Quantifying EC is of both scientific and practical importance, ...
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Journal articleTree physiology · August 2016
Water transport from soils to the atmosphere is critical for plant growth and survival. However, we have a limited understanding about many portions of the whole-tree hydraulic pathway, because the vast majority of published information is on terminal bran ...
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Journal articleAdvances in Water Resources · December 1, 2015
While the significance of leaf transpiration (fe) on carbon and water cycling is rarely disputed, conflicting evidence has been reported on how increasing mean wind speed (U) impacts fe from leaves. Here, conditions promoting enhancem ...
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Journal articleForest Ecology and Management. · November 2015
Throughout the southern US, past forest management practices have replaced large areas of native forests with loblolly pine plantations and have resulted in changes in forest response to extreme weather conditions. However, uncertainty remains about the re ...
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Journal articleTree physiology · October 2015
Manipulating tree belowground carbon (C) transport enables investigation of the ecological and physiological roles of tree roots and their associated mycorrhizal fungi, as well as a range of other soil organisms and processes. Girdling remains the most rel ...
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Journal articleForest Ecology and Management. · July 2015
Tree growth resources and the efficiency of resource-use for biomass production determine the productivity of forest ecosystems. In nutrient-limited forests, nitrogen (N)-fertilization increases foliage [N], which may increase photosynthetic rates, leaf ar ...
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Journal articleThe New phytologist · January 2015
Models of forest energy, water and carbon cycles assume decreased stomatal conductance with elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]) based on leaf-scale measurements, a response not directly translatable to canopies. Where canopy-atmosphere are well- ...
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Journal articleTree physiology · November 2014
Tree breeding and biotechnology can enhance forest productivity and help alleviate the rising pressure on forests from climate change and human exploitation. While many physiological processes and genes are targeted in search of genetically improved tree p ...
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Journal articleOecologia · June 2014
Boreal coniferous forests are characterized by fairly open canopies where understory vegetation is an important component of ecosystem C and N cycling. We used an ecophysiological approach to study the effects of N additions on uptake and partitioning of C ...
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Journal articleGlob Chang Biol · April 2014
Soil CO2 efflux (Fsoil ) is the largest source of carbon from forests and reflects primary productivity as well as how carbon is allocated within forest ecosystems. Through early stages of stand development, both elevated [CO2] and availability of soil nit ...
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Journal articleSoil Biology and Biochemistry · January 1, 2014
Little is known about the effects of nitrogen (N) additions on soil respiration (Rs) in tropical and subtropical forests. We therefore conducted an N-fertilization experiment in a subtropical evergreen forest in eastern China to better understand the short ...
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Journal articleWater Resources Research · January 1, 2014
Plant hydraulic traits have been conjectured to be coordinated, thereby providing plants with a balanced hydraulic system that protects them from cavitation while allowing an efficient transport of water necessary for photosynthesis. In particular, observa ...
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Journal articleAdvances in Water Resources · December 1, 2013
Optimization theories explain a variety of forms and functions in plants. At the leaf scale, it is often hypothesized that carbon gain is maximized, thus providing a quantifiable objective for a mathematical definition of optimality conditions. Eco-physiol ...
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Journal articleTree physiology · June 2013
In boreal forests, seedling establishment is limited by various factors including soil nitrogen (N) availability. Seedlings may absorb N from soil in a variety of inorganic and organic forms; however, the energy and thus carbohydrate requirements for uptak ...
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Journal articleNew Phytol · April 2013
Soil and plant hydraulics constrain ecosystem productivity by setting physical limits to water transport and hence carbon uptake by leaves. While more negative xylem water potentials provide a larger driving force for water transport, they also cause cavit ...
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Journal articleAgricultural and Forest Meteorology. · April 2013
The magnitude of CO2 flux from soil (Fsoil) varies with primary productivity and environmental drivers of respiration, soil temperature (Tsoil) and moisture, all of which vary temporally and spatially. To quantify the sources of Fsoil variability, we first ...
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Journal articleAnnals of botany · March 2013
Background and aimsWater and nitrogen (N) are two limiting resources for biomass production of terrestrial vegetation. Water losses in transpiration (E) can be decreased by reducing leaf stomatal conductance (g(s)) at the expense of lowering CO(2) ...
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Journal articleThe American naturalist · April 2012
Abstract Directionality in coupling, defined as the linkage relating causes to their effects at a later time, can be used to explain the core dynamics of ecological systems by untangling direct and feedback relationships between the different components o ...
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Journal articleGlobal Change Biology · January 1, 2012
Leaf responses to elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentration (C a) are central to models of forest CO 2 exchange with the atmosphere and constrain the magnitude of the future carbon sink. Estimating the magnitude of primary pr ...
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Journal articleThe New phytologist · November 2011
• Understory plants are subjected to highly intermittent light availability and their leaf gas exchanges are mediated by delayed responses of stomata and leaf biochemistry to light fluctuations. In this article, the patterns in stomatal delays across biome ...
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Journal articleFORESTRY · October 2011
Continuous cover forestry (CCF) aims at enhancing stand structural diversity and favouring natural regeneration. To give guidance on how to manage a CCF stand to achieve seedling growth below canopy, an estimate of light transmittance is required. So far, ...
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Journal articleFunctional Ecology · June 2011
1. Quantification of stomatal responses to environmental variables, in particular to soil water status, is needed to model carbon and water exchange rates between plants and the atmosphere. 2. Models based on stomatal optimality theory successfully describ ...
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Journal articleEcology letters · April 2011
The earth's future climate state is highly dependent upon changes in terrestrial C storage in response to rising concentrations of atmospheric CO₂. Here we show that consistently enhanced rates of net primary production (NPP) are sustained by a C-cascade t ...
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Journal articleTREE PHYSIOLOGY · January 2011
We analyzed the effect of simplifying assumptions in canopy representation of radiation transfer models, comparing modeled diffuse non-interceptance and photosynthetic photon flux density with measurements at different layers of complex pine-broadleaved ca ...
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Journal articleWater Resources Research · October 29, 2010
We estimated long-term annual evapotranspiration (ETQ) at the watershed scale by combining continuous daily streamflow (Q) records, a simplified watershed water balance, and a nonlinear reservoir model. Our analysis used Q measured from 11 water ...
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Journal articleEcosystems. · April 2010
Although drought in temperate deciduous forests decreases transpiration rates of many species, stand-level transpiration and total evapotranspiration is often reported to exhibit only minor interannual variability with precipitation. This apparent contradi ...
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Journal articleAnnals of botany · March 2010
Background and aimsGlobal climate models predict decreases in leaf stomatal conductance and transpiration due to increases in atmospheric CO2. The consequences of these reductions are increases in soil moisture availability and continental scale r ...
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Journal articleTree physiology · February 2010
Four-year-old seedlings of Picea abies [L.] Karst (Norway spruce) were grown in semi-controlled conditions with three watering regimes. The seedlings in the control group (c) were watered to prevent any dehydration effect. The two remaining groups were sub ...
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Journal articlePlant, cell & environment · November 2009
We investigated how leaf hydraulic conductance (K(leaf)) of loblolly pine trees is influenced by soil nitrogen amendment (N) in stands subjected to ambient or elevated CO(2) concentrations (CO(2)(a) and CO(2)(e), respectively). We also examined how K(leaf) ...
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Journal articlePlant, cell & environment · August 2009
Using the economics of gas exchange, early studies derived an expression of stomatal conductance (g) assuming that water cost per unit carbon is constant as the daily loss of water in transpiration (f(e)) is minimized for a given gain in photosynthesis (f( ...
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Journal articleBiogeochemistry. · July 2009
Profiles of subsurface soil CO₂ concentration, soil temperature, and soil moisture, and throughfall were measured continuously during the years 2005 and 2006 in 16 locations at the free air CO₂ enrichment facility situated within a temperate loblolly pine ...
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Journal articleTree physiology · April 2008
We examined effects of a first nitrogen (N) fertilizer application on upper-canopy needle morphology and gas exchange in approximately 20-m-tall loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) exposed to elevated carbon dioxide concentration ([CO(2)]) for 9 years. Duke For ...
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Journal articleTree physiology · October 2007
The spherical mean of the shoot silhouette-to-total leaf area ratio (STAR) and the shoot transmission coefficient (c) are two key structural parameters in radiative transfer models for calculating canopy photosynthesis and leaf area index. The standard opt ...
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Journal articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · December 2006
The partitioning among carbon (C) pools of the extra C captured under elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]) determines the enhancement in C sequestration, yet no clear partitioning rules exist. Here, we used first principles and published data fro ...
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Journal articleCanadian Journal of Forest Research · June 1, 2005
We investigate how the foliage mass to wood area ratios depend on tree and stand characteristics of previously collected data from Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). Our analysis allowed a separation of the relationship between stem and branch cross-section ...
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Journal articleTree physiology · November 2002
We investigated effects of nutrient availability on shoot structure and light-interception efficiency based on data from control (C) and irrigated + fertilized (IL) trees of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.). The sampling of 1-year-old shoots was des ...
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Journal articleTree physiology · August 2001
We examined the effects of structural and physiological acclimation on the photosynthetic efficiency of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) shoots. We estimated daily light interception (DLI) and photosynthesis (DPHOT) of a number of sample shoots situated at ...
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Journal articleAgricultural and Forest Meteorology · January 6, 2001
A tree scale distributed multipoint measuring system of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) has been designed. The system is divided into a central unit, measuring units and sensor-amplifiers. Measurements can be carried out with a maximum number of ...
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Journal articleCanadian Journal of Forest Research · January 1, 2001
We analyzed the combined effect of differences in the photosynthetic light response curve and in the distributions of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) irradiance within the canopy on the CO2 exchange rates of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestri ...
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Journal articleAgricultural and Forest Meteorology · February 25, 2000
A set-up with 161 photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) sensors was used to investigate spatio-temporal variations of irradiance for five horizontal arrays within a Scots pine canopy. The measured PAR was converted to CO2 exchange using of a ...
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Journal articleOecologia · November 1999
We investigated the functional and structural responses of Scots pine to climate and estimated the importance of the genotype on the traits studied. We analysed 13C isotope discrimination (Δ13C) of various provenances in a common gard ...
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Journal articleAgricultural and Forest Meteorology · May 31, 1999
A new instrument for measuring photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) was used to investigate changes in the distribution of direct sunlight on a plane shaded by a Scots pine shoot situated at different distances, and to test a previously developed mode ...
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Journal articleSilva Fennica · January 1, 1998
A novel multipoint measuring system of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) has been constructed and operated within a Scots pine canopy. A regular grid of 800 measuring points has been incorporated into a cuvette to observe the spatial and temporal d ...
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Journal articleAtmospheric Environment · October 1, 1997
This article presents results of measurements performed at Varrio environmental research station in Finland during 1992 to 1995. The aim of the station is to obtain more information on air quality as influenced by the Kola industrial areas and the effects ...
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Journal articleGeophysical Research Letters · January 1, 1997
Number size distribution of ambient submicron and ultrafine aerosol particles have been measured on a continuous basis (every 10 minutes) for three quarters of the year 1996, at a forest site in Southern Finland. Continuous monitoring offers additional ins ...
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