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Wang Y, Yu W, Luo L, Li M, Liu X, Guo R, Ma Y, Xu B, Wu G, Zhao C, Jing Z, Wei F, Cui J, Zhang J, Qu D. How do precipitation events modify the stable isotope ratios in leaf water at Lhasa on the southern Tibetan Plateau? ISOTOPES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH STUDIES 2022; 58:229-246. [PMID: 35503680 DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2022.2062343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Serving as a medium between source water and cellulose, leaf water contributes to the isotope ratios (δ18O, δ2H) of plant organic matter, which can be used for paleoclimate reconstruction. This study is the first to examine the diurnal variations in the δ18O and δ2H of leaf water on the southern Tibetan Plateau. The δ18O and δ2H of leaf water were relatively low when precipitation events occurred. In particular, 18O and 2H of leaf water became extremely depleted 5 h after the precipitation event. Our findings demonstrate that precipitation can modify the isotope ratios of leaf water from external and internal causes. First, precipitation events affect meteorological elements, lead to decreases in leaf transpiration, and immediately weaken the isotope enrichment of leaf water ('rapid effect' of precipitation). Second, precipitation events affect the internal plant-soil water cycle process, causing the plant to preferentially use deeper soil water, and the corresponding isotope ratios of leaf water exhibit extremely low values 5 h after precipitation events ('delay effect' of precipitation). This study suggests that researchers need to be cautious in separating the signals of precipitation and hydrological processes when interpreting isotope records preserved in tree-ring cellulose archives from the Tibetan Plateau.
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- Yong Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Land Science Research Center, School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Deep-Sea Multidisciplinary Research Center, Pilot National Laboratory of Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Canarini A, Wanek W, Watzka M, Sandén T, Spiegel H, Šantrůček J, Schnecker J. Quantifying microbial growth and carbon use efficiency in dry soil environments via 18 O water vapor equilibration. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2020; 26:5333-5341. [PMID: 32472728 PMCID: PMC7497233 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Soil microbial physiology controls large fluxes of C to the atmosphere, thus, improving our ability to accurately quantify microbial physiology in soil is essential. However, current methods to determine microbial C metabolism require liquid water addition, which makes it practically impossible to measure microbial physiology in dry soil samples without stimulating microbial growth and respiration (namely, the "Birch effect"). We developed a new method based on in vivo 18 O-water vapor equilibration to minimize soil rewetting effects. This method allows the isotopic labeling of soil water without direct liquid water addition. This was compared to the main current method (direct 18 O-liquid water addition) in moist and air-dry soils. We determined the time kinetics and calculated the average 18 O enrichment of soil water over incubation time, which is necessary to calculate microbial growth from 18 O incorporation in genomic DNA. We tested isotopic equilibration patterns in three natural and six artificially constructed soils covering a wide range of soil texture and soil organic matter content. We then measured microbial growth, respiration and carbon use efficiency (CUE) in three natural soils (either air-dry or moist). The proposed 18 O-vapor equilibration method provided similar results as the current method of liquid 18 O-water addition when used for moist soils. However, when applied to air-dry soils the liquid 18 O-water addition method overestimated growth by up to 250%, respiration by up to 500%, and underestimated CUE by up to 40%. We finally describe the new insights into biogeochemical cycling of C that the new method can help uncover, and we consider a range of questions regarding microbial physiology and its response to global change that can now be addressed.
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- Alberto Canarini
- Terrestrial Ecosystem ResearchCentre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems ScienceUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Terrestrial Ecosystem ResearchCentre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems ScienceUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Terrestrial Ecosystem ResearchCentre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems ScienceUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Department for Soil Health and Plant NutritionAustrian Agency for Health and Food SafetyViennaAustria
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- Department for Soil Health and Plant NutritionAustrian Agency for Health and Food SafetyViennaAustria
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- Faculty of ScienceUniversity of South BohemiaCeske BudejoviceCzech Republic
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- Terrestrial Ecosystem ResearchCentre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems ScienceUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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Britto DT, Kronzucker HJ. From aquaporin to ecosystem: Plants in the water cycle. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 227:1-2. [PMID: 29960803 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2018.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Vascular plants are major intermediaries in the global water cycle, and are highly adapted to both facilitate and resist water fluxes, such as during root uptake, translocation in the xylem, and transpiration by leaves. Here, we summarize the contributions to a Special Issue on water in the Journal of Plant Physiology, which cluster around the theme of control and facilitation of water movement in plants. We conclude with an editorial view of the need for plant physiologists to consider larger cultural issues surrounding water use, especially in terms of the increasing agricultural demand for water to produce animal feed, with its associated trophic nutritive losses and environmental damage.
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- Dev T Britto
- School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
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