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Moreno‐Gutiérrez C, Battipaglia G, Cherubini P, Delgado Huertas A, Querejeta JI. Pine afforestation decreases the long‐term performance of understorey shrubs in a semi‐arid Mediterranean ecosystem: a stable isotope approach. Funct Ecol 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Cristina Moreno‐Gutiérrez
- Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS‐CSIC) Campus Universitario de Espinardo P.O. Box 164 30100 Murcia Spain
- WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research CH‐8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research CH‐8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
- Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies Second University of Naples via Vivaldi 43 – 81100 Caserta Italy
- Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (PALECO EPHE) Centre for Bio‐Archeology and Ecology Institut de Botanique University of Montpellier 2 F‐34090 Montpellier France
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- WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research CH‐8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Laboratorio de Biogeoquímica de Isótopos Estables Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra IACT (CSIC‐UGR) Avda. de las Palmeras 4. 18100 Armilla Granada Spain
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- Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS‐CSIC) Campus Universitario de Espinardo P.O. Box 164 30100 Murcia Spain
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Broeckx LS, Fichot R, Verlinden MS, Ceulemans R. Seasonal variations in photosynthesis, intrinsic water-use efficiency and stable isotope composition of poplar leaves in a short-rotation plantation. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 34:701-15. [PMID: 25074859 PMCID: PMC4131770 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpu057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2014] [Accepted: 06/03/2014] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Photosynthetic carbon assimilation and transpirational water loss play an important role in the yield and the carbon sequestration potential of bioenergy-devoted cultures of fast-growing trees. For six poplar (Populus) genotypes in a short-rotation plantation, we observed significant seasonal and genotypic variation in photosynthetic parameters, intrinsic water-use efficiency (WUEi) and leaf stable isotope composition (δ13C and δ18O). The poplars maintained high photosynthetic rates (between 17.8 and 26.9 μmol m(-2) s(-1) depending on genotypes) until late in the season, in line with their fast-growth habit. Seasonal fluctuations were mainly explained by variations in soil water availability and by stomatal limitation upon photosynthesis. Stomatal rather than biochemical limitation was confirmed by the constant intrinsic photosynthetic capacity (Vcmax) during the growing season, closely related to leaf nitrogen (N) content. Intrinsic water-use efficiency scaled negatively with carbon isotope discrimination (Δ13Cbl) and positively with the ratio between mesophyll diffusion conductance (gm) and stomatal conductance. The WUEi-Δ13Cbl relationship was partly influenced by gm. There was a trade-off between WUEi and photosynthetic N-use efficiency, but only when soil water availability was limiting. Our results suggest that seasonal fluctuations in relation to soil water availability should be accounted for in future modelling studies assessing the carbon sequestration potential and the water-use efficiency of woody energy crops.
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- L S Broeckx
- Department of Biology, Research Group of Plant and Vegetation Ecology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
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- University of Orléans, INRA, LBLGC, F-45067 Orléans, France
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- Department of Biology, Research Group of Plant and Vegetation Ecology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Research Group of Plant and Vegetation Ecology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
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Drought-induced increase in water-use efficiency reduces secondary tree growth and tracheid wall thickness in a Mediterranean conifer. Oecologia 2014; 176:273-83. [PMID: 24958369 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2989-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2014] [Accepted: 05/29/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In order to understand the impact of drought and intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) on tree growth, we evaluated the relative importance of direct and indirect effects of water availability on secondary growth and xylem anatomy of Juniperus thurifera, a Mediterranean anisohydric conifer. Dendrochronological techniques, quantitative xylem anatomy, and (13)C/(12)C isotopic ratio were combined to develop standardized chronologies for iWUE, BAI (basal area increment), and anatomical variables on a 40-year-long annually resolved series for 20 trees. We tested the relationship between iWUE and secondary growth at short-term (annual) and long-term (decadal) temporal scales to evaluate whether gains in iWUE may lead to increases in secondary growth. We obtained a positive long-term correlation between iWUE and BAI, simultaneously with a negative short-term correlation between them. Furthermore, BAI and iWUE were correlated with anatomical traits related to carbon sink or storage (tracheid wall thickness and ray parenchyma amount), but no significant correlation with conductive traits (tracheid lumen) was found. Water availability during the growing season significantly modulated tree growth at the xylem level, where growth rates and wood anatomical traits were affected by June precipitation. Our results are consistent with a drought-induced limitation of tree growth response to rising CO2, despite the trend of rising iWUE being maintained. We also remark the usefulness of exploring this relationship at different temporal scales to fully understand the actual links between iWUE and secondary growth dynamics.
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Flanagan LB, Farquhar GD. Variation in the carbon and oxygen isotope composition of plant biomass and its relationship to water-use efficiency at the leaf- and ecosystem-scales in a northern Great Plains grassland. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2014; 37:425-38. [PMID: 23862667 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2013] [Accepted: 07/10/2013] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Measurements of the carbon (δ(13) Cm ) and oxygen (δ(18) Om ) isotope composition of C3 plant tissue provide important insights into controls on water-use efficiency. We investigated the causes of seasonal and inter-annual variability in water-use efficiency in a grassland near Lethbridge, Canada using stable isotope (leaf-scale) and eddy covariance measurements (ecosystem-scale). The positive relationship between δ(13) Cm and δ(18) Om values for samples collected during 1998-2001 indicated that variation in stomatal conductance and water stress-induced changes in the degree of stomatal limitation of net photosynthesis were the major controls on variation in δ(13) Cm and biomass production during this time. By comparison, the lack of a significant relationship between δ(13) Cm and δ(18) Om values during 2002, 2003 and 2006 demonstrated that water stress was not a significant limitation on photosynthesis and biomass production in these years. Water-use efficiency was higher in 2000 than 1999, consistent with expectations because of greater stomatal limitation of photosynthesis and lower leaf ci /ca during the drier conditions of 2000. Calculated values of leaf-scale water-use efficiency were 2-3 times higher than ecosystem-scale water-use efficiency, a difference that was likely due to carbon lost in root respiration and water lost during soil evaporation that was not accounted for by the stable isotope measurements.
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- Lawrence B Flanagan
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Water & Environmental Sciences Building, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4, Canada
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Boettger T, Haupt M, Friedrich M, Waterhouse JS. Reduced climate sensitivity of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios in tree-ring cellulose of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) influenced by background SO2 in Franconia (Germany, Central Europe). ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2014; 185:281-94. [PMID: 24316066 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2013] [Revised: 10/22/2013] [Accepted: 10/31/2013] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The climate sensitivity of carbon (δ(13)C), oxygen (δ(18)O) and hydrogen (δ(2)H) isotope signatures in tree-ring cellulose of Abies alba Mill. from a marginally industrialized area of Franconia (Germany) was analysed for the last 130 years. All isotopes preserve climatic signals up to c. 1950 AD. After 1950 we observe a clear reduction in climate sensitivity of δ(13)C and δ(2)H while δ(18)O - climate relations remain well pronounced. Nevertheless statistical tests implied that SO2 background emissions of West Germany had influenced isotope signatures long before 1950. The relationships between isotope values and concentrations of SO2, dust, O3 and NO2 at the regional level during the period 1979-2006 indicate that δ(13)C and δ(18)O were influenced primarily by SO2. The impact of SO2 on δ(2)H was negligible, but the observed reduction of climate sensitivity may be caused by synergic influences. The results have significant implications if isotope signatures from tree-rings from anthropogenic influenced regions are used to reconstruct past climate.
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- Tatjana Boettger
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Catchment Hydrology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, D-06120 Halle, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Catchment Hydrology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, D-06120 Halle, Germany
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- Institute of Botany (210), Hohenheim University, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, CB1 1PT Cambridge, UK
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Responses of carbon and oxygen stable isotopes in rice grain (Oryza sativa L.) to an increase in air temperature during grain filling in the Japanese archipelago. Ecol Res 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s11284-013-1097-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Voltas J, Camarero JJ, Carulla D, Aguilera M, Ortiz A, Ferrio JP. A retrospective, dual-isotope approach reveals individual predispositions to winter-drought induced tree dieback in the southernmost distribution limit of Scots pine. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2013; 36:1435-48. [PMID: 23346991 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2012] [Revised: 01/13/2013] [Accepted: 01/16/2013] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Winter-drought induced forest diebacks in the low-latitude margins of species' distribution ranges can provide new insights into the mechanisms (carbon starvation, hydraulic failure) underlying contrasting tree reactions. We analysed a winter-drought induced dieback at the Scots pine's southern edge through a dual-isotope approach (Δ(13) C and δ(18) O in tree-ring cellulose). We hypothesized that a differential long-term performance, mediated by the interaction between CO(2) and climate, determined the fates of individuals during dieback. Declining trees showed a stronger coupling between climate, growth and intrinsic water-use efficiency (WUEi) than non-declining individuals that was noticeable for 25 years prior to dieback. The rising stomatal control of water losses with time in declining trees, indicated by negative Δ(13) C-δ(18) O relationships, was likely associated with their native aptitude to grow more and take up more water (suggested by larger tracheid lumen widths) than non-declining trees and, therefore, to exhibit a greater cavitation risk. Freeze-thaw episodes occurring in winter 2001 unveiled such physiological differences by triggering dieback in those trees more vulnerable to hydraulic failure. Thus, WUEi tightly modulated growth responses to long-term warming in declining trees, indicating that co-occurring individuals were differentially predisposed to winter-drought mortality. These different performances were unconnected to the depletion of stored carbohydrates.
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- Jordi Voltas
- Department of Crop and Forest Sciences - AGROTECNIO Center, University of Lleida, Av. Rovira Roure 191, 25198, Lleida, Spain.
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Araus JL, Cabrera-Bosquet L, Serret MAD, Bort J, Nieto-Taladriz MAT. Comparative performance of δ 13C, δ 18O and δ 15N for phenotyping durum wheat adaptation to a dryland environment. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2013; 40:595-608. [PMID: 32481133 DOI: 10.1071/fp12254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2012] [Accepted: 01/25/2013] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Grain yield and the natural abundance of the stable isotope compositions of carbon (δ13C), oxygen (δ18O) and nitrogen (δ15N) of mature kernels were measured during 3 consecutive years in 10 durum wheat genotypes (five landraces and five modern cultivars) subjected to different water and N availabilities in a Mediterranean location and encompassing a total of 12 trials. Water limitation was the main environmental factor affecting yield, δ13C and δ18O, whereas N fertilisation had a major effect on δ15N. The genotypic effect was significant for yield, yield components, δ13C, δ18O and δ15N. Landraces exhibited a higher δ13C and δ15N than cultivars. Phenotypic correlations of δ13C and δ18O with grain yield were negative, suggesting that genotypes able to sustain a higher water use and stomatal conductance were the most productive and best adapted; δ15N was also negatively correlated with grain yield regardless of the growing conditions. δ13C was the best isotopic trait in terms of genetic correlation with yield and heritability, whereas δ18O was the worst of the three isotopic abundances. The physiological basis for the different performance of the three isotopes explaining the genotypic variability in yield is discussed.
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- Jos Luis Araus
- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Ctra. de La Coruña Km. 7,5, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Yousfi S, Serret MD, Araus JL. Comparative response of δ13C, δ18O and δ15N in durum wheat exposed to salinity at the vegetative and reproductive stages. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2013; 36:1214-27. [PMID: 23240790 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2012] [Revised: 09/26/2012] [Accepted: 12/08/2012] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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This study compared the performance of the stable isotope composition of carbon (δ(13) C), oxygen (δ(18) O) and nitrogen (δ(15) N) by tracking plant response and genotypic variability of durum wheat to different salinity conditions. To that end, δ(13) C, δ(18) O and δ(15) N were analysed in dry matter (dm) and the water-soluble fraction (wsf) of leaves from plants exposed to salinity, either soon after plant emergence or at anthesis. The δ(13) C and δ(18) O of the wsf recorded the recent growing conditions, including changes in evaporative conditions. Regardless of the plant part (dm or wsf), δ(13) C and δ(18) O increased and δ(15) N decreased in response to stress. When the stress conditions were established just after emergence, δ(15) N and δ(13) C correlated positively with genotypic differences in biomass, whereas δ(18) O correlated negatively in the most severe treatment. When the stress conditions were imposed at anthesis, relationships between the three isotope signatures and biomass were only significant and positive within the most severe treatments. The results show that nitrogen metabolism, together with stomatal limitation, is involved in the genotypic response to salinity, with the relative importance of each factor depending on the severity and duration of the stress as well as the phenological stage that the stress occurs.
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- Salima Yousfi
- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Barnard HR, Brooks JR, Bond BJ. Applying the dual-isotope conceptual model to interpret physiological trends under uncontrolled conditions. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 32:1183-1198. [PMID: 22989739 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The inter-relationships among δ(13)C and δ(18)O in tree ring cellulose and ring width have the potential to illuminate long-term physiological and environmental information in forest stands that have not been monitored. We examine how within-stand competition and environmental gradients affect ring widths and the stable isotopes of cellulose. We utilize a natural climate gradient across a catchment dominated by Douglas-fir and temporal changes in climate over an 8-year period. We apply a dual-isotope approach to infer physiological response of trees in differing crown dominance classes to temporal and spatial changes in environmental conditions using a qualitative conceptual model of the (13)C-(18)O relationship and by normalizing the data to minimize other variance. The δ(13)C and δ(18)O of cellulose were correlated with year-to-year variation in relative humidity and consistent with current isotope theory. Using a qualitative conceptual model of the (13)C-(18)O relationship and physiological knowledge about the species, we interpreted these changes as stomatal conductance responses to evaporative demand. Spatial variance between plots was not strong and seemed related to leaf nitrogen rather than any other environmental variable. Dominant trees responded to environmental gradients more consistently with current isotope theory as compared with other classes within the same stand. We found a correlation of stable isotopes with environmental variables is useful for assessing the impacts of environmental change over short time series and where growth varies only minimally with climate.
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- H R Barnard
- Department of Geography, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado - Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, USA.
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Moreno-Gutiérrez C, Dawson TE, Nicolás E, Querejeta JI. Isotopes reveal contrasting water use strategies among coexisting plant species in a Mediterranean ecosystem. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2012; 196:489-496. [PMID: 22913668 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04276.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2012] [Accepted: 07/09/2012] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Variation in the stable carbon and oxygen isotope composition (δ13C, Δ18O) of co-occurring plant species may reflect the functional diversity of water use strategies present in natural plant communities. We investigated the patterns of water use among 10 coexisting plant species representing diverse taxonomic groups and life forms in semiarid southeast Spain by measuring their leaf δ13C and Δ18O, the oxygen isotope ratio of stem water and leaf gas exchange rates. Across species, Δ18O was tightly negatively correlated with stomatal conductance (gs), whereas δ13C was positively correlated with intrinsic water use efficiency (WUEi). Broad interspecific variation in Δ18O, δ13C and WUEi was largely determined by differences in gs, as indicated by a strong positive correlation between leaf δ13C and Δ18O across species The 10 co-occurring species segregated along a continuous ecophysiological gradient defined by their leaf δ13C and Δ18O, thus revealing a wide spectrum of stomatal regulation intensity and contrasting water use strategies ranging from 'profligate/opportunistic' (high gs, low WUEi) to 'conservative' (low gs, high WUEi). Coexisting species maintained their relative isotopic rankings in 2 yr with contrasting rainfall, suggesting the existence of species-specific 'isotopic niches' that reflect ecophysiological niche segregation in dryland plant communities.
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- Cristina Moreno-Gutiérrez
- Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS-CSIC), Campus Universitario de Espinardo, PO Box 164, 30100, Murcia, Spain
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- Center for Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and the Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS-CSIC), Campus Universitario de Espinardo, PO Box 164, 30100, Murcia, Spain
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- Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS-CSIC), Campus Universitario de Espinardo, PO Box 164, 30100, Murcia, Spain
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Roden J, Siegwolf R. Is the dual-isotope conceptual model fully operational? TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 32:1179-82. [PMID: 23077117 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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- John Roden
- Department of Biology, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR 97520, USA
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