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Huang J, Ladd SN, Ingrisch J, Kübert A, Meredith LK, van Haren J, Bamberger I, Daber LE, Kühnhammer K, Bailey K, Hu J, Fudyma J, Shi L, Dippold MA, Meeran K, Miller L, O'Brien MJ, Yang H, Herrera-Ramírez D, Hartmann H, Trumbore S, Bahn M, Werner C, Lehmann MM. The mobilization and transport of newly fixed carbon are driven by plant water use in an experimental rainforest under drought. J Exp Bot 2024; 75:2545-2557. [PMID: 38271585 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
Abstract
Non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) are building blocks for biomass and fuel metabolic processes. However, it remains unclear how tropical forests mobilize, export, and transport NSCs to cope with extreme droughts. We combined drought manipulation and ecosystem 13CO2 pulse-labeling in an enclosed rainforest at Biosphere 2, assessed changes in NSCs, and traced newly assimilated carbohydrates in plant species with diverse hydraulic traits and canopy positions. We show that drought caused a depletion of leaf starch reserves and slowed export and transport of newly assimilated carbohydrates below ground. Drought effects were more pronounced in conservative canopy trees with limited supply of new photosynthates and relatively constant water status than in those with continual photosynthetic supply and deteriorated water status. We provide experimental evidence that local utilization, export, and transport of newly assimilated carbon are closely coupled with plant water use in canopy trees. We highlight that these processes are critical for understanding and predicting tree resistance and ecosystem fluxes in tropical forest under drought.
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- Jianbei Huang
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Ecosystem Physiology, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 30, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Ecosystem Physiology, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestr 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Ecosystem Physiology, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, 1064 E. Lowell St., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Biosphere 2, University of Arizona, 32540 S. Biosphere Rd, Oracle, AZ 85739, USA
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- Biosphere 2, University of Arizona, 32540 S. Biosphere Rd, Oracle, AZ 85739, USA
- Honors College, University of Arizona, 1101 East Mabel Street, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
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- Ecosystem Physiology, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Atmospheric Chemistry Group, University of Bayreuth (BayCEER), Germany
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- Ecosystem Physiology, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Ecosystem Physiology, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, 1064 E. Lowell St., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, 1064 E. Lowell St., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Geo-Biosphere Interactions, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Geo-Biosphere Interactions, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestr 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Biosphere 2, University of Arizona, 32540 S. Biosphere Rd, Oracle, AZ 85739, USA
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- Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Almería, Spain
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, D-07745 Jena, Germany
- Institute for Forest Protection, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Erwin-Baur-Straße 27, D-06484 Quedlinburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestr 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Ecosystem Physiology, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Helm J, Muhr J, Hilman B, Kahmen A, Schulze ED, Trumbore S, Herrera-Ramírez D, Hartmann H. Carbon dynamics during long-term starving poplar trees-the importance of older carbohydrates and a shift to lipids during survival. Tree Physiol 2023:tpad135. [PMID: 37941495 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpad135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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Carbon (C) assimilation can be severely impaired during periods of environmental stress like drought or defoliation, making trees heavily dependent on the use of C reserve pools for survival; yet, dynamics of reserve use during periods of reduced C supply are still poorly understood. We used stem girdling in mature poplar trees (Populus tremula L. hybrids), a lipid-storing species, to permanently interrupt phloem C transport and induced C shortage in the isolated stem section below the girdle and monitored metabolic activity during three campaigns in the growing seasons of 2018, 2019, and 2021. We measured respiratory fluxes (CO2 and O2), NSC concentration, the respiratory substrate (based on isotopic analysis and CO2/O2 ratio) and the age of the respiratory substrate (based on radiocarbon analysis). Our study shows that poplar trees can survive long periods of reduced C supply from the canopy by switching in metabolism from recent carbohydrates to older storage pools with a potential mixture of respiratory substrates, including lipids. This mechanism of stress resilience can explain why tree decline may take many years until death occurs.
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- Juliane Helm
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes, Hans-Knöll-Str.10, 07743 Jena, Germany
- University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences-Botany, Schönbeinstr.6, Basel CH-4056, Switzerland
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes, Hans-Knöll-Str.10, 07743 Jena, Germany
- now at: Georg-August University Göttingen, Department of Forest Botany and Tree Physiology, Laboratory for Radioisotopes, Büsgenweg 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes, Hans-Knöll-Str.10, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences-Botany, Schönbeinstr.6, Basel CH-4056, Switzerland
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes, Hans-Knöll-Str.10, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes, Hans-Knöll-Str.10, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes, Hans-Knöll-Str.10, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes, Hans-Knöll-Str.10, 07743 Jena, Germany
- Institute for Forest Protection, Julius Kühn-Institute, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Quedlinburg, Germany
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Lazar CS, Schwab VF, Ueberschaar N, Pohnert G, Trumbore S, Küsel K. Microbial degradation and assimilation of veratric acid in oxic and anoxic groundwaters. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1252498. [PMID: 37901809 PMCID: PMC10602745 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1252498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023] Open
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Microbial communities are key players in groundwater ecosystems. In this dark environment, heterotrophic microbes rely on biomass produced by the activity of lithoautotrophs or on the degradation of organic matter seeping from the surface. Most studies on bacterial diversity in groundwater habitats are based on 16S gene sequencing and full genome reconstructions showing potential metabolic pathways used in these habitats. However, molecular-based studies do not allow for the assessment of population dynamics over time or the assimilation of specific compounds and their biochemical transformation by microbial communities. Therefore, in this study, we combined DNA-, phospholipid fatty acid-, and metabolomic-stable isotope probing to target and identify heterotrophic bacteria in the groundwater setting of the Hainich Critical Zone Exploratory (CZE), focusing on 2 aquifers with different physico-chemical conditions (oxic and anoxic). We incubated groundwater from 4 different wells using either 13C-labeled veratric acid (a lignin-derived compound) (single labeling) or a combination of 13CO2 and D-labeled veratric acid (dual labeling). Our results show that heterotrophic activities dominate all groundwater sites. We identified bacteria with the potential to break down veratric acid (Sphingobium or Microbacterium). We observed differences in heterotrophic activities between the oxic and anoxic aquifers, indicating local adaptations of bacterial populations. The dual labeling experiments suggested that the serine pathway is an important carbon assimilation pathway and that organic matter was an important source of hydrogen in the newly produced lipids. These experiments also yielded different labeled taxa compared to the single labeling experiments, showing that there exists a complex interaction network in the groundwater habitats.
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- Cassandre Sara Lazar
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Montreal, QC, Canada
- Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Reichenbach M, Fiener P, Hoyt A, Trumbore S, Six J, Doetterl S. Soil carbon stocks in stable tropical landforms are dominated by geochemical controls and not by land use. Glob Chang Biol 2023; 29:2591-2607. [PMID: 36847151 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics depend on soil properties derived from the geoclimatic conditions under which soils develop and are in many cases modified by land conversion. However, SOC stabilization and the responses of SOC to land use change are not well constrained in deeply weathered tropical soils, which are dominated by less reactive minerals than those in temperate regions. Along a gradient of geochemically distinct soil parent materials, we investigated differences in SOC stocks and SOC (Δ14 C) turnover time across soil profile depth between montane tropical forest and cropland situated on flat, non-erosive plateau landforms. We show that SOC stocks and soil Δ14 C patterns do not differ significantly with land use, but that differences in SOC can be explained by the physicochemical properties of soils. More specifically, labile organo-mineral associations in combination with exchangeable base cations were identified as the dominating controls over soil C stocks and turnover. We argue that due to their long weathering history, the investigated tropical soils do not provide enough reactive minerals for the stabilization of C input in either high input (tropical forest) or low-input (cropland) systems. Since these soils exceeded their maximum potential for the mineral related stabilization of SOC, potential positive effects of reforestation on tropical SOC storage are most likely limited to minor differences in topsoil without major impacts on subsoil C stocks. Hence, in deeply weathered soils, increasing C inputs may lead to the accumulation of a larger readily available SOC pool, but does not contribute to long-term SOC stabilization.
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- Institute of Geography, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
- Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Geography, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Magnabosco Marra D, Lima AJN, dos Santos BDO, Higuchi N, Trumbore S. Radiocarbon estimates of age and growth for a dominant Amazon palm species. Biotropica 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.13156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) Manaus Brazil
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- Max‐Planck‐Institut für Biogeochemie Jena Germany
- Department of Earth System Science University of California Irvine USA
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Stoner SW, Hoyt AM, Trumbore S, Sierra CA, Schrumpf M, Doetterl S, Baisden WT, Schipper LA. Soil organic matter turnover rates increase to match increased inputs in grazed grasslands. Biogeochemistry 2021; 156:145-160. [PMID: 34720281 PMCID: PMC8550221 DOI: 10.1007/s10533-021-00838-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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UNLABELLED Managed grasslands have the potential to store carbon (C) and partially mitigate climate change. However, it remains difficult to predict potential C storage under a given soil or management practice. To study C storage dynamics due to long-term (1952-2009) phosphorus (P) fertilizer and irrigation treatments in New Zealand grasslands, we measured radiocarbon (14C) in archived soil along with observed changes in C stocks to constrain a compartmental soil model. Productivity increases from P application and irrigation in these trials resulted in very similar C accumulation rates between 1959 and 2009. The ∆14C changes over the same time period were similar in plots that were both irrigated and fertilized, and only differed in a non-irrigated fertilized plot. Model results indicated that decomposition rates of fast cycling C (0.1 to 0.2 year-1) increased to nearly offset increases in inputs. With increasing P fertilization, decomposition rates also increased in the slow pool (0.005 to 0.008 year-1). Our findings show sustained, significant (i.e. greater than 4 per mille) increases in C stocks regardless of treatment or inputs. As the majority of fresh inputs remain in the soil for less than 10 years, these long term increases reflect dynamics of the slow pool. Additionally, frequent irrigation was associated with reduced stocks and increased decomposition of fresh plant material. Rates of C gain and decay highlight trade-offs between productivity, nutrient availability, and soil C sequestration as a climate change mitigation strategy. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10533-021-00838-z.
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- Shane W. Stoner
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato, Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato, Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand
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Hilman B, Muhr J, Helm J, Kuhlmann I, Schulze ED, Trumbore S. The size and the age of the metabolically active carbon in tree roots. Plant Cell Environ 2021; 44:2522-2535. [PMID: 34096615 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Revised: 05/31/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Little is known about the sources and age of C respired by tree roots. Previous research in stems identified two functional pools of non-structural carbohydrates (NSC): an "active" pool supplied directly from canopy photo-assimilates supporting metabolism and a "stored" pool used when fresh C supplies are limited. We compared the C isotope composition of water-soluble NSC and respired CO2 for aspen roots (Populus tremula hybrids) cut off from fresh C supply after stem-girdling or prolonged incubation of excised roots. We used bomb radiocarbon to estimate the time elapsed since C fixation for respired CO2 , water-soluble NSC and structural α-cellulose. While freshly excised roots (mostly <2.9 mm in diameter) respired CO2 fixed <1 year previously, the age increased to 1.6-2.9 year within a week after root excision. Freshly excised roots from trees girdled ~3 months ago had respiration rates and NSC stocks similar to un-girdled trees but respired older C (~1.2 year). We estimate that over 3 months NSC in girdled roots must be replaced 5-7 times by reserves remobilized from root-external sources. Using a mixing model and observed correlations between Δ14 C of water-soluble C and α-cellulose, we estimate ~30% of C is "active" (~5 mg C g-1 ).
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- Boaz Hilman
- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
- Department of Bioclimatology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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Knebl A, Domes R, Yan D, Popp J, Trumbore S, Frosch T. Correction to Fiber-Enhanced Raman Gas Spectroscopy for 18O- 13C-Labeling Experiments. Anal Chem 2021; 93:9296. [PMID: 34152725 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Herrera-Ramírez D, Sierra CA, Römermann C, Muhr J, Trumbore S, Silvério D, Brando PM, Hartmann H. Starch and lipid storage strategies in tropical trees relate to growth and mortality. New Phytol 2021; 230:139-154. [PMID: 33507548 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2020] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Non-structural carbon (NSC) storage (i.e. starch, soluble sugras and lipids) in tree stems play important roles in metabolism and growth. Their spatial distribution in wood may explain species-specific differences in carbon storage dynamics, growth and survival. However, quantitative information on the spatial distribution of starch and lipids in wood is sparse due to methodological limitations. Here we assessed differences in wood NSC and lipid storage between tropical tree species with different growth and mortality rates and contrasting functional types. We measured starch and soluble sugars in wood cores up to 4 cm deep into the stem using standard chemical quantification methods and histological slices stained with Lugol's iodine. We also detected neutral lipids using histological slices stained with Oil-Red-O. The histological method allowed us to group individuals into two categories according to their starch storage strategy: fiber-storing trees and parenchyma-storing trees. The first group had a bigger starch pool, slower growth and lower mortality rates than the second group. Lipid storage was found in wood parenchyma in five species and was related to low mortality rates. The quantification of the spatial distribution of starch and lipids in wood improves our understanding of NSC dynamics in trees and reveals additional dimensions of tree growth and survival strategies.
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str 10, Jena, 07745, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, D-04103, Germany
- Department of Bioclimatology, Georg August University Göttingen, Büsgenweg 2, Göttingen, 37077, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str 10, Jena, 07745, Germany
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 16, Jena, 07743, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str 10, Jena, 07745, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia - UFRA, Capitão Poço, Pará, 68650-000, Brazil
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- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
- Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Brasília, DF, 70863-520, Brazil
- Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA, 02540, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str 10, Jena, 07745, Germany
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Bond‐Lamberty B, Christianson DS, Malhotra A, Pennington SC, Sihi D, AghaKouchak A, Anjileli H, Altaf Arain M, Armesto JJ, Ashraf S, Ataka M, Baldocchi D, Andrew Black T, Buchmann N, Carbone MS, Chang S, Crill P, Curtis PS, Davidson EA, Desai AR, Drake JE, El‐Madany TS, Gavazzi M, Görres C, Gough CM, Goulden M, Gregg J, Gutiérrez del Arroyo O, He J, Hirano T, Hopple A, Hughes H, Järveoja J, Jassal R, Jian J, Kan H, Kaye J, Kominami Y, Liang N, Lipson D, Macdonald CA, Maseyk K, Mathes K, Mauritz M, Mayes MA, McNulty S, Miao G, Migliavacca M, Miller S, Miniat CF, Nietz JG, Nilsson MB, Noormets A, Norouzi H, O’Connell CS, Osborne B, Oyonarte C, Pang Z, Peichl M, Pendall E, Perez‐Quezada JF, Phillips CL, Phillips RP, Raich JW, Renchon AA, Ruehr NK, Sánchez‐Cañete EP, Saunders M, Savage KE, Schrumpf M, Scott RL, Seibt U, Silver WL, Sun W, Szutu D, Takagi K, Takagi M, Teramoto M, Tjoelker MG, Trumbore S, Ueyama M, Vargas R, Varner RK, Verfaillie J, Vogel C, Wang J, Winston G, Wood TE, Wu J, Wutzler T, Zeng J, Zha T, Zhang Q, Zou J. COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data. Glob Chang Biol 2020; 26:7268-7283. [PMID: 33026137 PMCID: PMC7756728 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Revised: 09/04/2020] [Accepted: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Globally, soils store two to three times as much carbon as currently resides in the atmosphere, and it is critical to understand how soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and uptake will respond to ongoing climate change. In particular, the soil-to-atmosphere CO2 flux, commonly though imprecisely termed soil respiration (RS ), is one of the largest carbon fluxes in the Earth system. An increasing number of high-frequency RS measurements (typically, from an automated system with hourly sampling) have been made over the last two decades; an increasing number of methane measurements are being made with such systems as well. Such high frequency data are an invaluable resource for understanding GHG fluxes, but lack a central database or repository. Here we describe the lightweight, open-source COSORE (COntinuous SOil REspiration) database and software, that focuses on automated, continuous and long-term GHG flux datasets, and is intended to serve as a community resource for earth sciences, climate change syntheses and model evaluation. Contributed datasets are mapped to a single, consistent standard, with metadata on contributors, geographic location, measurement conditions and ancillary data. The design emphasizes the importance of reproducibility, scientific transparency and open access to data. While being oriented towards continuously measured RS , the database design accommodates other soil-atmosphere measurements (e.g. ecosystem respiration, chamber-measured net ecosystem exchange, methane fluxes) as well as experimental treatments (heterotrophic only, etc.). We give brief examples of the types of analyses possible using this new community resource and describe its accompanying R software package.
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- Ben Bond‐Lamberty
- Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryJoint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland–College ParkCollege ParkMDUSA
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- Department of Earth System ScienceStanford UniversityStanfordCAUSA
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- Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryJoint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland–College ParkCollege ParkMDUSA
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- Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTNUSA
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Department of Environmental SciencesEmory UniversityAtlantaGAUSA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of California IrvineIrvineCAUSA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of California IrvineIrvineCAUSA
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- School of Geography and Earth SciencesMcMaster UniversityHamiltonOntarioCanada
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- Departamento de EcologíaPontificia Universidad Católica de ChileSantiagoChile
- Instituto de Ecología y BiodiversidadSantiagoChile
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- Department of Building, Civil and Environmental EngineeringConcordia UniversityMontrealQCCanada
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- Research Institute for Sustainable HumanosphereKyoto UniversityUji CityKyotoJapan
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and ManagementUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
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- Faculty of Land and Food SystemsUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouverBCCanada
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- Department of Environmental Systems ScienceInstitute of Agricultural SciencesETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Center for Ecosystem Science and SocietyNorthern Arizona UniversityFlagstaffAZUSA
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental StudiesCenter for Interdisciplinary Research on Ecology and SustainabilityNational Dong Hwa UniversityHualienTaiwan
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- Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate ResearchStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal BiologyOhio State UniversityColumbusOHUSA
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- Appalachian LaboratoryUniversity of Maryland Center for Environmental ScienceFrostburgMDUSA
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic SciencesUniversity of Wisconsin‐MadisonMadisonWIUSA
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- Sustainable Resources ManagementSUNY‐ESFSyracuseNYUSA
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- Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment CenterUSDA Forest ServiceResearch Triangle ParkNCUSA
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- Sustainability Double Degree ProgramOregon State UniversityCorvallisORUSA
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- Institute of EcologyCollege of Urban and Environmental SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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- Research Faculty of AgricultureHokkaido UniversitySapporoJapan
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- Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWAUSA
- Smithsonian Environmental Research CenterEdgewaterMDUSA
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- School of Forest ResourcesUniversity of MaineOronoMEUSA
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- Department of Forest Ecology and ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUmeåSweden
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- Faculty of Land and Food SystemsUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouverBCCanada
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- Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryJoint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland–College ParkCollege ParkMDUSA
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- Beijing Research & Development Centre for Grass and EnvironmentBeijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry SciencesBeijingChina
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- The Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity ParkPAUSA
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- Forestry and Forest Products Research InstituteTsukuba‐cityJapan
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- Center for Global Environmental ResearchNational Institute for Environmental StudiesTsukubaJapan
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- Biology DepartmentSan Diego State UniversitySan DiegoCAUSA
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the EnvironmentWestern Sydney UniversityPenrithNSWAustralia
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- School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem SciencesThe Open UniversityMilton KeynesUK
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- Integrated Life SciencesVirginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmondVAUSA
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- Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTNUSA
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- Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment CenterUSDA Forest ServiceResearch Triangle ParkNCUSA
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- School of Geographical SciencesFujian Normal UniversityFuzhouP.R. China
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- University at AlbanyState University of New YorkNew YorkNYUSA
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- USDA Forest ServiceSouthern Research StationCoweeta Hydrologic LabOttoNCUSA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal BiologyOhio State UniversityColumbusOHUSA
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- Department of Forest Ecology and ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUmeåSweden
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation BiologyTexas A&M UniversityCollege StationTXUSA
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- New York City College of Technology and the Graduate CenterThe City University of New YorkNew YorkNYUSA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and ManagementUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
- Department of Environmental StudiesMacalester CollegeSt PaulMNUSA
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- UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science and UCD Earth InstituteUniversity College DublinDublinIreland
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- Beijing Research & Development Centre for Grass and EnvironmentBeijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry SciencesBeijingChina
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- Department of Forest Ecology and ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUmeåSweden
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the EnvironmentWestern Sydney UniversityPenrithNSWAustralia
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- Department of Environmental Science and Renewable Natural ResourcesUniversity of ChileSantiagoChile
- Institute of Ecology and BiodiversitySantiagoChile
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- USDA Agricultural Research ServiceForage Seed and Cereal Research UnitCorvallisORUSA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal BiologyIowa State UniversityAmesIAUSA
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the EnvironmentWestern Sydney UniversityPenrithNSWAustralia
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research–Atmospheric Environmental ResearchKIT‐Campus AlpinKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyGarmisch‐PartenkirchenGermany
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- School of Natural SciencesBotany DepartmentTrinity College DublinDublinIreland
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic SciencesUniversity of California Los AngelesLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and ManagementUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
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- Department of Global EcologyCarnegie Institution for ScienceStanfordCAUSA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and ManagementUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
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- Field Science Center for Northern BiosphereHokkaido UniversityHoronobeJapan
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- Center for Global Environmental ResearchNational Institute for Environmental StudiesTsukubaJapan
- Present address:
Arid Land Research CenterTottori UniversityTottori680–0001Japan
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the EnvironmentWestern Sydney UniversityPenrithNSWAustralia
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental SciencesOsaka Prefecture UniversitySakaiJapan
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- Department of Plant and Soil SciencesUniversity of DelawareNewarkDEUSA
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- Department of Earth Sciences and Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and SpaceUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and ManagementUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and ModelingInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- Department of Science, Engineering and MathematicsCypress CollegeCypressCAUSA
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- USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical ForestryRío PiedrasPuerto Rico
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- Beijing Research & Development Centre for Grass and EnvironmentBeijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry SciencesBeijingChina
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- Center for Global Environmental ResearchNational Institute for Environmental StudiesTsukubaJapan
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- School of Soil and Water ConservationBeijing Forestry UniversityBeijingP.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering ScienceWuhan UniversityWuhanP.R. China
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- Beijing Research & Development Centre for Grass and EnvironmentBeijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry SciencesBeijingChina
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Longo M, Saatchi S, Keller M, Bowman K, Ferraz A, Moorcroft PR, Morton DC, Bonal D, Brando P, Burban B, Derroire G, dos‐Santos MN, Meyer V, Saleska S, Trumbore S, Vincent G. Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests. J Geophys Res Biogeosci 2020; 125:e2020JG005677. [PMID: 32999796 PMCID: PMC7507752 DOI: 10.1029/2020jg005677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Selective logging, fragmentation, and understory fires directly degrade forest structure and composition. However, studies addressing the effects of forest degradation on carbon, water, and energy cycles are scarce. Here, we integrate field observations and high-resolution remote sensing from airborne lidar to provide realistic initial conditions to the Ecosystem Demography Model (ED-2.2) and investigate how disturbances from forest degradation affect gross primary production (GPP), evapotranspiration (ET), and sensible heat flux (H). We used forest structural information retrieved from airborne lidar samples (13,500 ha) and calibrated with 817 inventory plots (0.25 ha) across precipitation and degradation gradients in the eastern Amazon as initial conditions to ED-2.2 model. Our results show that the magnitude and seasonality of fluxes were modulated by changes in forest structure caused by degradation. During the dry season and under typical conditions, severely degraded forests (biomass loss ≥66%) experienced water stress with declines in ET (up to 34%) and GPP (up to 35%) and increases of H (up to 43%) and daily mean ground temperatures (up to 6.5°C) relative to intact forests. In contrast, the relative impact of forest degradation on energy, water, and carbon cycles markedly diminishes under extreme, multiyear droughts, as a consequence of severe stress experienced by intact forests. Our results highlight that the water and energy cycles in the Amazon are driven by not only climate and deforestation but also the past disturbance and changes of forest structure from degradation, suggesting a much broader influence of human land use activities on the tropical ecosystems.
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- Marcos Longo
- Jet Propulsion LaboratoryCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadenaCAUSA
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- Jet Propulsion LaboratoryCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadenaCAUSA
- Institute of Environment and SustainabilityUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Jet Propulsion LaboratoryCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadenaCAUSA
- International Institute of Tropical ForestryUSDA Forest ServiceRio PiedrasPuerto Rico
- Embrapa Informática AgropecuáriaCampinasBrazil
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- Jet Propulsion LaboratoryCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadenaCAUSA
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- Jet Propulsion LaboratoryCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadenaCAUSA
- Institute of Environment and SustainabilityUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyHarvard UniversityCambridgeMAUSA
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- Université de Lorraine, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR SilvaNancyFrance
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- Department of Earth System ScienceUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCAUSA
- Woods Hole Research CenterWoods HoleMAUSA
- Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da AmazôniaBrasíliaBrazil
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- Institut National de Recherche en Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), UMR 0745 EcoFoG, Campus AgronomiqueKourouFrance
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- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), UMR EcoFoG (Agroparistech, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane), Campus AgronomiqueKourouFrance
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- Jet Propulsion LaboratoryCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadenaCAUSA
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- Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ArizonaTucsonAZUSA
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- AMAP, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAEMontpellierFrance
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Huang J, Rücker A, Schmidt A, Gleixner G, Gershenzon J, Trumbore S, Hartmann H. Production of constitutive and induced secondary metabolites is coordinated with growth and storage in Norway spruce saplings. Tree Physiol 2020; 40:928-942. [PMID: 32268379 PMCID: PMC7325531 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpaa040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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A mechanistic understanding of how trees balance the trade-offs between growth, storage and defense is limited but crucial for predicting tree responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. Here we investigated how trees allocate storage of non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) to growth and constitutive and induced secondary metabolites (SM). We exposed Norway spruce (Picea abies) saplings to 5 weeks of complete darkness to induce light and/or carbon limitation and then applied methyl jasmonate (MeJA) to simulate biotic attack. We measured changes in biomass, NSC (sum of soluble sugars and starches), and constitutive and induced SM (sum of phenolic compounds and terpenoids) in current-year developing and previous-year mature needles and branches, as well as volatiles emitted from the canopy. Under darkness, NSC storage was preferentially used for constitutive biosynthesis of monoterpenes rather than biosynthesis of stilbenes and growth of developing organs, while SM stored in mature organs cannot be remobilized and recycled. Furthermore, MeJA-induced production of SM was constrained by low NSC availability in developing organs but not in mature organs grown in the dark. Emissions of volatiles were suppressed in the dark but after 1 h of re-illumination, emissions of both constitutive and induced monoterpene hydrocarbons recovered rapidly, whereas emissions of linalool and sesquiterpene produced via de novo synthesis did not recover. Our results highlight that light and/or carbon limitation may constrain constitutive and JA-induced biosynthesis of SM in coordination with growth, NSC storage and mobilization.
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- Jianbei Huang
- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, Jena 07745, Germany
- Corresponding author ()
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Str. 8, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Str. 8, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, Jena 07745, Germany
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Herrera-Ramírez D, Muhr J, Hartmann H, Römermann C, Trumbore S, Sierra CA. Probability distributions of nonstructural carbon ages and transit times provide insights into carbon allocation dynamics of mature trees. New Phytol 2020; 226:1299-1311. [PMID: 31997347 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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●In trees, the use of nonstructural carbon (NSC) under limiting conditions impacts the age structure of the NSC pools. We compared model predictions of NSC ages and transit times for Pinus halepensis, Acer rubrum and Pinus taeda, to understand differences in carbon (C) storage dynamics in species with different leaf phenology and growth environments. ●We used two C allocation models from the literature to estimate the NSC age and transit time distributions, to simulate C limitation, and to evaluate the sensitivity of the mean ages to changes in allocation fluxes. ●Differences in allocation resulted in different NSC age and transit time distributions. The simulated starvation flattened the NSC age distribution and increased the mean NSC transit time, which can be used to estimate the age of the NSC available and the time it would take to exhaust the reserves. Mean NSC ages and transit times were sensitive to C fluxes in roots and allocation of C from wood storage. ●Our results demonstrate how trees with different storage traits are expected to react differently to starvation. They also provide a probabilistic explanation for the 'last-in, first-out' pattern of NSC mobilization from well-mixed C pools.
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str 10, Jena, 07745, Germany
- Department of Bioclimatology, Georg August University Göttingen, Büsgenweg 2, Göttingen, 37077, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str 10, Jena, 07745, Germany
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- Institute for Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 16, Jena, 07743, Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, D-04103, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str 10, Jena, 07745, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str 10, Jena, 07745, Germany
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Caetano-Andrade VL, Clement CR, Weigel D, Trumbore S, Boivin N, Schöngart J, Roberts P. Tropical Trees as Time Capsules of Anthropogenic Activity. Trends Plant Sci 2020; 25:369-380. [PMID: 32037081 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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After the ice caps, tropical forests are globally the most threatened terrestrial environments. Modern trees are not just witnesses to growing contemporary threats but also legacies of past human activity. Here, we review the use of dendrochronology, radiocarbon analysis, stable isotope analysis, and DNA analysis to examine ancient tree management. These methods exploit the fact that living trees record information on environmental and anthropogenic selective forces during their own and past generations of growth, making trees living archaeological 'sites'. The applicability of these methods across prehistoric, historic, and industrial periods means they have the potential to detect evolving anthropogenic threats and can be used to set conservation priorities in rapidly vanishing environments.
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany; Department of Archaeology, University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD, 4072, Brisbane, Australia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany; Department of Archaeology, University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD, 4072, Brisbane, Australia
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D'Andrea E, Rezaie N, Battistelli A, Gavrichkova O, Kuhlmann I, Matteucci G, Moscatello S, Proietti S, Scartazza A, Trumbore S, Muhr J. Winter's bite: beech trees survive complete defoliation due to spring late-frost damage by mobilizing old C reserves. New Phytol 2019; 224:625-631. [PMID: 31282591 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 06/30/2019] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Late frost can destroy the photosynthetic apparatus of trees. We hypothesized that this can alter the normal cyclic dynamics of C-reserves in the wood. We measured soluble sugar concentrations and radiocarbon signatures (Δ14 C) of soluble nonstructural carbon (NSC) in woody tissues sampled from a Mediterranean beech forest that was completely defoliated by an exceptional late frost in 2016. We used the bomb radiocarbon approach to estimate the time elapsed since fixation of mobilized soluble sugars. During the leafless period after the frost event, soluble sugar concentrations declined sharply while Δ14 C of NSC increased. This can be explained by the lack of fresh assimilate supply and a mobilization of C from reserve pools. Soluble NSC became increasingly older during the leafless period, with a maximum average age of 5 yr from samples collected 27 d before canopy recovery. Following leaf re-growth, soluble sugar concentrations increased and Δ14 C of soluble NSC decreased, indicating the allocation of new assimilates to the stem soluble sugars pool. These data highlight that beech trees rapidly mobilize reserve C to survive strong source-sink imbalances, for example due to late frost, and show that NSC is a key trait for tree resilience under global change.
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- CNR-ISAFOM, via Patacca 2, 80056, Ercolano, Italy
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- CNR-IRET, via Marconi 2, 05010, Porano, Italy
- Agro-Technology Institute, Peoples Friendship University of Russia, 117198, Moscow, Russia
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Bioclimatology, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 2, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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Brando PM, Silvério D, Maracahipes-Santos L, Oliveira-Santos C, Levick SR, Coe MT, Migliavacca M, Balch JK, Macedo MN, Nepstad DC, Maracahipes L, Davidson E, Asner G, Kolle O, Trumbore S. Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: Implications for CO 2 and H 2 O fluxes. Glob Chang Biol 2019; 25:2855-2868. [PMID: 31237398 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 03/13/2019] [Accepted: 03/31/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Drought, fire, and windstorms can interact to degrade tropical forests and the ecosystem services they provide, but how these forests recover after catastrophic disturbance events remains relatively unknown. Here, we analyze multi-year measurements of vegetation dynamics and function (fluxes of CO2 and H2 O) in forests recovering from 7 years of controlled burns, followed by wind disturbance. Located in southeast Amazonia, the experimental forest consists of three 50-ha plots burned annually, triennially, or not at all from 2004 to 2010. During the subsequent 6-year recovery period, postfire tree survivorship and biomass sharply declined, with aboveground C stocks decreasing by 70%-94% along forest edges (0-200 m into the forest) and 36%-40% in the forest interior. Vegetation regrowth in the forest understory triggered partial canopy closure (70%-80%) from 2010 to 2015. The composition and spatial distribution of grasses invading degraded forest evolved rapidly, likely because of the delayed mortality. Four years after the experimental fires ended (2014), the burned plots assimilated 36% less carbon than the Control, but net CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration (ET) had fully recovered 7 years after the experimental fires ended (2017). Carbon uptake recovery occurred largely in response to increased light-use efficiency and reduced postfire respiration, whereas increased water use associated with postfire growth of new recruits and remaining trees explained the recovery in ET. Although the effects of interacting disturbances (e.g., fires, forest fragmentation, and blowdown events) on mortality and biomass persist over many years, the rapid recovery of carbon and water fluxes can help stabilize local climate.
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- Paulo M Brando
- Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts
- Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Brasília, Brazil
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- Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Brasília, Brazil
- Ecology Department, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
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- Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Brasília, Brazil
- Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
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- Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
- CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, Darwin, NT, Australia
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Geography Department, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
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- Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts
- Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Brasília, Brazil
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- Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, Maryland
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- Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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Stable isotopes are used in ecology to track and disentangle different processes and pathways. Especially for studies focused on the gas exchange of plants, sensing techniques that offer oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) sensitivity with isotopic discrimination are highly sought after. Addressing this challenge, fiber-enhanced Raman gas spectroscopy is introduced as a fast optical technique directly combining 13CO2 and 12CO2 as well as 18O2 and 16O2 measurements in one instrument. We demonstrate how a new type of optical hollow-core fiber, the so-called revolver fiber, is utilized for enhanced Raman gas sensing. Carbon dioxide and oxygen isotopologues were measured at concentrations expected when using 13C- and 18O-labeled gases in plant experiments. Limits of detection have been determined to be 25 ppm for CO2 and 150 ppm for O2. The combination of measurements with different integration times allows the creation of highly resolved broadband spectra. With the help of calculations based on density functional theory, the line at 1512 cm-1 occurring in the oxygen spectrum is assigned to 18O16O. The relative abundances of the isotopologues 18O16O and nitrogen 15N14N were in good agreement with typical values. For CO2, fiber-enhanced Raman spectra show the Fermi diad and hotbands of 12C16O2, 13C16O2, and 12C18O16O. Several weak lines were observed, and the line at 1426 cm-1 was identified as originating from the (0 4 0 2) → (0 2 0 2) transition of 12C16O2. With the demonstrated sensitivity and discriminatory power, fiber-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is a possible alternative means to investigate plant metabolism, directly combining 13CO2 and 12CO2 measurements with 18O2 and 16O2 measurements in one instrument. The presented method thus has large potential for basic analytical investigations as well as for applications in the environmental sciences.
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- Andreas Knebl
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology , 07745 Jena , Germany.,Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry , 07745 Jena , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology , 07745 Jena , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology , 07745 Jena , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology , 07745 Jena , Germany.,Institute of Physical Chemistry & Abbe Center of Photonics , Friedrich Schiller University , 07743 Jena , Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry , 07745 Jena , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology , 07745 Jena , Germany.,Institute of Physical Chemistry & Abbe Center of Photonics , Friedrich Schiller University , 07743 Jena , Germany
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Angst G, Mueller KE, Eissenstat DM, Trumbore S, Freeman KH, Hobbie SE, Chorover J, Oleksyn J, Reich PB, Mueller CW. Soil organic carbon stability in forests: Distinct effects of tree species identity and traits. Glob Chang Biol 2019; 25:1529-1546. [PMID: 30554462 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased interest in the potential for forest ecosystems and soils to act as carbon (C) sinks. While soil organic C contents often vary with tree species identity, little is known about if, and how, tree species influence the stability of C in soil. Using a 40 year old common garden experiment with replicated plots of eleven temperate tree species, we investigated relationships between soil organic matter (SOM) stability in mineral soils and 17 ecological factors (including tree tissue chemistry, magnitude of organic matter inputs to the soil and their turnover, microbial community descriptors, and soil physicochemical properties). We measured five SOM stability indices, including heterotrophic respiration, C in aggregate occluded particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral associated SOM, and bulk SOM δ15 N and ∆14 C. The stability of SOM varied substantially among tree species, and this variability was independent of the amount of organic C in soils. Thus, when considering forest soils as C sinks, the stability of C stocks must be considered in addition to their size. Further, our results suggest tree species regulate soil C stability via the composition of their tissues, especially roots. Stability of SOM appeared to be greater (as indicated by higher δ15 N and reduced respiration) beneath species with higher concentrations of nitrogen and lower amounts of acid insoluble compounds in their roots, while SOM stability appeared to be lower (as indicated by higher respiration and lower proportions of C in aggregate occluded POM) beneath species with higher tissue calcium contents. The proportion of C in mineral associated SOM and bulk soil ∆14 C, though, were negligibly dependent on tree species traits, likely reflecting an insensitivity of some SOM pools to decadal scale shifts in ecological factors. Strategies aiming to increase soil C stocks may thus focus on particulate C pools, which can more easily be manipulated and are most sensitive to climate change.
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- Gerrit Angst
- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Soil Biology & SoWa Research Infrastructure, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
- Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
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- Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes, Jena, Germany
- Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California
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- Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
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- Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
- Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kórnik, Poland
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- Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Chair of Soil Science, Technical University Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany
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Huang J, Hammerbacher A, Weinhold A, Reichelt M, Gleixner G, Behrendt T, van Dam NM, Sala A, Gershenzon J, Trumbore S, Hartmann H. Eyes on the future - evidence for trade-offs between growth, storage and defense in Norway spruce. New Phytol 2019; 222:144-158. [PMID: 30289558 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Accepted: 09/28/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Carbon (C) allocation plays a central role in tree responses to environmental changes. Yet, fundamental questions remain about how trees allocate C to different sinks, for example, growth vs storage and defense. In order to elucidate allocation priorities, we manipulated the whole-tree C balance by modifying atmospheric CO2 concentrations [CO2 ] to create two distinct gradients of declining C availability, and compared how C was allocated among fluxes (respiration and volatile monoterpenes) and biomass C pools (total biomass, nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC) and secondary metabolites (SM)) in well-watered Norway spruce (Picea abies) saplings. Continuous isotope labelling was used to trace the fate of newly-assimilated C. Reducing [CO2 ] to 120 ppm caused an aboveground C compensation point (i.e. net C balance was zero) and resulted in decreases in growth and respiration. By contrast, soluble sugars and SM remained relatively constant in aboveground young organs and were partially maintained with a constant allocation of newly-assimilated C, even at expense of root death from C exhaustion. We conclude that spruce trees have a conservative allocation strategy under source limitation: growth and respiration can be downregulated to maintain 'operational' concentrations of NSC while investing newly-assimilated C into future survival by producing SM.
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- Jianbei Huang
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Str. 8, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Department of Zoology and Entomology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, 0028, Pretoria, South Africa
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Str. 8, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University, Dornburger-Str. 159, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Str. 8, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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Huang J, Hartmann H, Hellén H, Wisthaler A, Perreca E, Weinhold A, Rücker A, van Dam NM, Gershenzon J, Trumbore S, Behrendt T. New Perspectives on CO 2, Temperature, and Light Effects on BVOC Emissions Using Online Measurements by PTR-MS and Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy. Environ Sci Technol 2018; 52:13811-13823. [PMID: 30335995 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b01435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Volatile organic compounds (VOC) play important roles in atmospheric chemistry, plant ecology, and physiology, and biogenic VOC (BVOC) emitted by plants is the largest VOC source. Our knowledge about how environmental drivers (e.g., carbon, light, and temperature) may regulate BVOC emissions is limited because they are often not controlled. We combined a greenhouse facility to manipulate atmospheric CO2 ([CO2]) with proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) and cavity ring-down spectroscopy to investigate the regulation of BVOC in Norway spruce. Our results indicate a direct relationship between [CO2] and methanol and acetone emissions, and their temperature and light dependencies, possibly related to substrate availability. The composition of monoterpenes stored in needles remained constant, but emissions of mono-(linalool) and sesquiterpenes (β-farnesene) increased at lower [CO2], with the effects being most pronounced at the highest air temperature. Pulse-labeling suggested an immediate incorporation of recently assimilated carbon into acetone, mono- and sesquiterpene emissions even under 50 ppm [CO2]. Our results provide new perspectives on CO2, temperature and light effects on BVOC emissions, in particular how they depend on stored pools and recent photosynthetic products. Future studies using smaller but more seedlings may allow sufficient replication to examine the physiological mechanisms behind the BVOC responses.
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- Jianbei Huang
- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry , Jena , Germany
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- Finnish Meteorological Institute , Helsinki , Finland
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology , Jena , Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research , Leipzig , Germany
- Institute of Ecology , Friedrich Schiller University , Jena , Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry , Jena , Germany
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Muhr J, Trumbore S, Higuchi N, Kunert N. Living on borrowed time - Amazonian trees use decade-old storage carbon to survive for months after complete stem girdling. New Phytol 2018; 220:111-120. [PMID: 30067298 PMCID: PMC6175381 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2018] [Accepted: 05/11/2018] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Nonstructural carbon (NSC) reserves act as buffers to sustain tree activity during periods when carbon (C) assimilation does not meet C demand, but little is known about their age and accessibility; we designed a controlled girdling experiment in the Amazon to study tree survival on NSC reserves. We used bomb-radiocarbon (14 C) to monitor the time elapsed between C fixation and release ('age' of substrates). We simultaneously monitored how the mobilization of reserve C affected δ13 CO2 . Six ungirdled control trees relied almost exclusively on recent assimilates throughout the 17 months of measurement. The Δ14 C of CO2 emitted from the six girdled stems increased significantly over time after girdling, indicating substantial remobilization of storage NSC fixed up to 13-14 yr previously. This remobilization was not accompanied by a consistent change in observed δ13 CO2 . These trees have access to storage pools integrating C accumulated over more than a decade. Remobilization follows a very clear reverse chronological mobilization with younger reserve pools being mobilized first. The lack of a shift in the δ13 CO2 might indicate a constant contribution of starch hydrolysis to the soluble sugar pool even outside pronounced stress periods (regular mixing).
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- Jan Muhr
- Max‐Planck‐Institute for BiogeochemistryHans‐Knöll‐Str. 10Jena07745Germany
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- Max‐Planck‐Institute for BiogeochemistryHans‐Knöll‐Str. 10Jena07745Germany
- Earth System ScienceUniversity of California IrvineIrvineCA92697‐3100USA
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- Laboratory of Forest ManagementBrazilian National Institute for Research in the AmazonManausBrazil
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- Max‐Planck‐Institute for BiogeochemistryHans‐Knöll‐Str. 10Jena07745Germany
- Conservation Ecology CenterSmithsonian Conservation Biology Institute1500 Remount Rd. MRC 5535Front RoyalVA22630USA
- Center for Tropical Forest Science‐Forest Global Earth ObservatorySmithsonian Tropical Research InstitutePanama CityPanama
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Nagy RC, Porder S, Brando P, Davidson EA, Figueira AMES, Neill C, Riskin S, Trumbore S. Soil Carbon Dynamics in Soybean Cropland and Forests in Mato Grosso, Brazil. J Geophys Res Biogeosci 2018; 123:18-31. [PMID: 29938142 PMCID: PMC5993338 DOI: 10.1002/2017jg004269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Revised: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 12/10/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Climate and land use models predict that tropical deforestation and conversion to cropland will produce a large flux of soil carbon (C) to the atmosphere from accelerated decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM). However, the C flux from the deep tropical soils on which most intensive crop agriculture is now expanding remains poorly constrained. To quantify the effect of intensive agriculture on tropical soil C, we compared C stocks, radiocarbon, and stable C isotopes to 2 m depth from forests and soybean cropland created from former pasture in Mato Grosso, Brazil. We hypothesized that soil disturbance, higher soil temperatures (+2°C), and lower OM inputs from soybeans would increase soil C turnover and deplete C stocks relative to nearby forest soils. However, we found reduced C concentrations and stocks only in surface soils (0-10 cm) of soybean cropland compared with forests, and these differences could be explained by soil mixing during plowing. The amount and Δ14C of respired CO2 to 50 cm depth were significantly lower from soybean soils, yet CO2 production at 2 m deep was low in both forest and soybean soils. Mean surface soil δ13C decreased by 0.5‰ between 2009 and 2013 in soybean cropland, suggesting low OM inputs from soybeans. Together these findings suggest the following: (1) soil C is relatively resistant to changes in land use and (2) conversion to cropland caused a small, measurable reduction in the fast-cycling C pool through reduced OM inputs, mobilization of older C from soil mixing, and/or destabilization of SOM in surface soils.
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- R. Chelsea Nagy
- Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyBrown UniversityProvidenceRIUSA
- Ecosystems CenterMarine Biological LaboratoryWoods HoleMAUSA
- Earth LabUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyBrown UniversityProvidenceRIUSA
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- Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da AmazôniaBrasíliaBrazil
- Woods Hole Research CenterFalmouthMAUSA
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- Woods Hole Research CenterFalmouthMAUSA
- Appalachian LaboratoryUniversity of Maryland Center for Environmental ScienceFrostburgMDUSA
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- Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyBrown UniversityProvidenceRIUSA
- Ecosystems CenterMarine Biological LaboratoryWoods HoleMAUSA
- Woods Hole Research CenterFalmouthMAUSA
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- Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyBrown UniversityProvidenceRIUSA
- Ecosystems CenterMarine Biological LaboratoryWoods HoleMAUSA
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- Max Planck Institute for BiogeochemistryJenaGermany
- Earth System ScienceUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCAUSA
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Hartmann H, Trumbore S. Understanding the roles of nonstructural carbohydrates in forest trees - from what we can measure to what we want to know. New Phytol 2016; 211:386-403. [PMID: 27061438 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 261] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/01/2016] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Contents 386 I. 386 II. 388 III. 392 IV. 392 V. 396 VI. 399 399 References 399 SUMMARY: Carbohydrates provide the building blocks for plant structures as well as versatile resources for metabolic processes. The nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC), mainly sugars and starch, fulfil distinct functional roles, including transport, energy metabolism and osmoregulation, and provide substrates for the synthesis of defence compounds or exchange with symbionts involved in nutrient acquisition or defence. At the whole-plant level, NSC storage buffers the asynchrony of supply and demand on diel, seasonal or decadal temporal scales and across plant organs. Despite its central role in plant function and in stand-level carbon cycling, our understanding of storage dynamics, its controls and response to environmental stresses is very limited, even after a century of research. This reflects the fact that often storage is defined by what we can measure, that is, NSC concentrations, and the interpretation of these as a proxy for a single function, storage, rather than the outcome of a range of NSC source and sink functions. New isotopic tools allow direct quantification of timescales involved in NSC dynamics, and show that NSC-C fixed years to decades previously is used to support tree functions. Here we review recent advances, with emphasis on the context of the interactions between NSC, drought and tree mortality.
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- Henrik Hartmann
- Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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Muhr J, Messier C, Delagrange S, Trumbore S, Xu X, Hartmann H. How fresh is maple syrup? Sugar maple trees mobilize carbon stored several years previously during early springtime sap-ascent. New Phytol 2016; 209:1410-1416. [PMID: 26639654 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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While trees store substantial amounts of nonstructural carbon (NSC) for later use, storage regulation and mobilization of stored NSC in long-lived organisms like trees are still not well understood. At two different sites with sugar maple (Acer saccharum), we investigated ascending sap (sugar concentration, δ(13) C, Δ(14) C) as the mobilized component of stored stem NSC during early springtime. Using the bomb-spike radiocarbon approach we were able to estimate the average time elapsed since the mobilized carbon (C) was originally fixed from the atmosphere and to infer the turnover time of stem storage. Sites differed in concentration dynamics and overall δ(13) C, indicating different growing conditions. The absence of temporal trends for δ(13) C and Δ(14) C indicated sugar mobilization from a well-mixed pool with average Δ(14) C consistent with a mean turnover time (TT) of three to five years for this pool, with only minor differences between the sites. Sugar maple trees hence appear well buffered against single or even several years of negative plant C balance from environmental stress such as drought or repeated defoliation by insects. Manipulative investigations (e.g. starvation via girdling) combined with Δ(14) C measurements of this mobilized storage pool will provide further new insights into tree storage regulation and functioning.
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- Jan Muhr
- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Institut des Sciences de la Forêt Tempéré (ISFORT), Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), 58 Rue Principale, Ripon, QC, JOV 1V0, Canada
- Center for Forest Research (CEF), Université du Québec à Montréal, PO Box 8888, Centre-ville Station, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Center for Forest Research (CEF), Université du Québec à Montréal, PO Box 8888, Centre-ville Station, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-3100, USA
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- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-3100, USA
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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Bustamante MMC, Roitman I, Aide TM, Alencar A, Anderson LO, Aragão L, Asner GP, Barlow J, Berenguer E, Chambers J, Costa MH, Fanin T, Ferreira LG, Ferreira J, Keller M, Magnusson WE, Morales-Barquero L, Morton D, Ometto JPHB, Palace M, Peres CA, Silvério D, Trumbore S, Vieira ICG. Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity. Glob Chang Biol 2016; 22:92-109. [PMID: 26390852 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2015] [Revised: 07/23/2015] [Accepted: 08/19/2015] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Tropical forests harbor a significant portion of global biodiversity and are a critical component of the climate system. Reducing deforestation and forest degradation contributes to global climate-change mitigation efforts, yet emissions and removals from forest dynamics are still poorly quantified. We reviewed the main challenges to estimate changes in carbon stocks and biodiversity due to degradation and recovery of tropical forests, focusing on three main areas: (1) the combination of field surveys and remote sensing; (2) evaluation of biodiversity and carbon values under a unified strategy; and (3) research efforts needed to understand and quantify forest degradation and recovery. The improvement of models and estimates of changes of forest carbon can foster process-oriented monitoring of forest dynamics, including different variables and using spatially explicit algorithms that account for regional and local differences, such as variation in climate, soil, nutrient content, topography, biodiversity, disturbance history, recovery pathways, and socioeconomic factors. Generating the data for these models requires affordable large-scale remote-sensing tools associated with a robust network of field plots that can generate spatially explicit information on a range of variables through time. By combining ecosystem models, multiscale remote sensing, and networks of field plots, we will be able to evaluate forest degradation and recovery and their interactions with biodiversity and carbon cycling. Improving monitoring strategies will allow a better understanding of the role of forest dynamics in climate-change mitigation, adaptation, and carbon cycle feedbacks, thereby reducing uncertainties in models of the key processes in the carbon cycle, including their impacts on biodiversity, which are fundamental to support forest governance policies, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation.
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- Department of Ecology, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF, CEP 70910900, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 00931-3360, Puerto Rico
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- Amazon Environmental Research Institute - IPAM, SHIN CA5 Bl J2 Sala 309, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
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- National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters - CEMADEN, Parque Tecnológico de São José dos Campos, Estrada Doutor Altino Bondensan, 500, São José dos Campos, SP, 12247-016, Brazil
- Environmental Change Institute, ECI, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, SP, 12247-016, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, SP, 12247-016, Brazil
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- Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
- Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, C.P. 399, Belém, Pará, CEP 66040170, Brasil
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
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- Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Agricultural Engineering, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-900, Brazil
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- Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Estudos Sócio-Ambientais - IESA, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
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- Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, C. Postal 48 66017-970, Belem, PA, Brazil
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- USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- EMBRAPA Monitoramento por Satélite, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Caixa Postal 2223, Manaus, AM, 69067-971, Brazil
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- School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, UK
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- Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 618, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA
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- Earth System Science Centre (CCST), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Av dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos, SP, 12227-010, Brazil
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- Earth System Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, UNH, Norwich, UK
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR47TJ, UK
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- Department of Ecology, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF, CEP 70910900, Brazil
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- Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, C.P. 399, Belém, Pará, CEP 66040170, Brasil
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Trumbore S, Czimczik CI, Sierra CA, Muhr J, Xu X. Non-structural carbon dynamics and allocation relate to growth rate and leaf habit in California oaks. Tree Physiol 2015; 35:1206-1222. [PMID: 26452766 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpv097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2015] [Accepted: 08/17/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Trees contain non-structural carbon (NSC), but it is unclear for how long these reserves are stored and to what degree they are used to support plant activity. We used radiocarbon ((14)C) to show that the carbon (C) in stemwood NSC can achieve ages of several decades in California oaks. We separated NSC into two fractions: soluble (∼50% sugars) and insoluble (mostly starch) NSC. Soluble NSC contained more C than insoluble NSC, but we found no consistent trend in the amount of either pool with depth in the stem. There was no systematic difference in C age between the two fractions, although ages increased with stem depth. The C in both NSC fractions was consistently younger than the structural C from which they were extracted. Together, these results indicate considerable inward mixing of NSC within the stem and rapid exchange between soluble and insoluble pools, compared with the timescale of inward mixing. We observed similar patterns in sympatric evergreen and deciduous oaks and the largest differences among tree stems with different growth rates. The (14)C signature of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from tree stems was higher than expected from very recent photoassimilates, indicating that the mean age of C in respiration substrates included a contribution from C fixed years previously. A simple model that tracks NSC produced each year, followed by loss (through conversion to CO2) in subsequent years, matches our observations of inward mixing of NSC in the stem and higher (14)C signature of stem CO2 efflux. Together, these data support the idea of continuous accumulation of NSC in stemwood and that 'vigor' (growth rate) and leaf habit (deciduous vs evergreen) control NSC pool size and allocation.
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- Susan Trumbore
- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3100, USA Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07701 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3100, USA
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07701 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07701 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3100, USA
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Jochum T, von Fischer JC, Trumbore S, Popp J, Frosch T. Multigas Leakage Correction in Static Environmental Chambers Using Sulfur Hexafluoride and Raman Spectroscopy. Anal Chem 2015; 87:11137-42. [PMID: 26492154 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In static environmental chamber experiments, the precision of gas flux measurements can be significantly improved by a thorough gas leakage correction to avoid under- or overestimation of biological activity such as respiration or photosynthesis. Especially in the case of small biological net gas exchange rates or gas accumulation phases during long environmental monitoring experiments, gas leakage fluxes could distort the analysis of the biogenic gas kinetics. Here we propose and demonstrate a general protocol for online correction of diffusion-driven gas leakage in plant chambers by simultaneous quantification of the inert tracer sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) and the investigated biogenic gases using enhanced Raman spectroscopy. By quantifying the leakage rates of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and hydrogen (H2) simultaneously with SF6 in the test chamber, their effective diffusivity ratios of approximately 1.60, 1.96, and 5.65 were determined, each related to SF6. Because our experiments suggest that the effective diffusivity ratios are reproducible for an individual static environmental chamber, even under varying concentration gradients and slight changes of the chamber sealing, an experimental method to quantify gas leakage fluxes by using effective diffusivity ratios and SF6 leakage fluxes is proposed. The method is demonstrated by quantifying the CO2 net exchange rate of a plant-soil ecosystem (Mirabilis jalapa). By knowing the effective chamber diffusivity ratio CO2/SF6 and the measured SF6 leakage rate during the experiment, the leakage contribution to the total CO2 exchange rate could be calculated and the biological net CO2 concentration change within the chamber atmosphere determined.
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- Tobias Jochum
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology , Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry , Jena 07745, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology , Jena 07745, Germany.,Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University , Jena 07743, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology , Jena 07745, Germany.,Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University , Jena 07743, Germany
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Keiner R, Frosch T, Massad T, Trumbore S, Popp J. Enhanced Raman multigas sensing - a novel tool for control and analysis of (13)CO(2) labeling experiments in environmental research. Analyst 2015; 139:3879-84. [PMID: 24791270 DOI: 10.1039/c3an01971c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cavity-enhanced Raman multigas spectrometry is introduced as a versatile technique for monitoring of (13)CO2 isotope labeling experiments, while simultaneously quantifying the fluxes of O2 and other relevant gases across a wide range of concentrations. The multigas analysis was performed in a closed cycle; no gas was consumed, and the gas composition was not altered by the measurement. Isotope labeling of plant metabolites via photosynthetic uptake of (13)CO2 enables the investigation of resource flows in plants and is now an important tool in ecophysiological studies. In this experiment the (13)C labeling of monoclonal cuttings of Populus trichocarpa was undertaken. The high time resolution of the online multigas analysis allowed precise control of the pulse labeling and was exploited to calculate the kinetics of photosynthetic (13)CO2 uptake and to extrapolate the exact value of the (13)CO2 peak concentration in the labeling chamber. Further, the leaf dark respiration of immature and mature leaves was analyzed. The quantification of the photosynthetic O2 production rate as a byproduct of the (13)CO2 uptake correlated with the amount of available light and the leaf area of the plants in the labeling chamber. The ability to acquire CO2 and O2 respiration rates simultaneously also simplifies the determination of respiratory quotients (rate of O2 uptake compared to CO2 release) and thus indicates the type of combusted substrate. By combining quantification of respiration quotients with the tracing of (13)C in plants, cavity enhanced Raman spectroscopy adds a valuable new tool for studies of metabolism at the organismal to ecosystem scale.
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Fischer S, Hanf S, Frosch T, Gleixner G, Popp J, Trumbore S, Hartmann H. Pinus sylvestris switches respiration substrates under shading but not during drought. New Phytol 2015; 207:542-550. [PMID: 25944481 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2015] [Accepted: 04/13/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Reduced carbon (C) assimilation during prolonged drought forces trees to rely on stored C to maintain vital processes like respiration. It has been shown, however, that the use of carbohydrates, a major C storage pool and apparently the main respiratory substrate in plants, strongly declines with decreasing plant hydration. Yet no empirical evidence has been produced to what degree other C storage compounds like lipids and proteins may fuel respiration during drought. We exposed young scots pine trees to C limitation using either drought or shading and assessed respiratory substrate use by monitoring the respiratory quotient, δ(13) C of respired CO2 and concentrations of the major storage compounds, that is, carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids. Only shaded trees shifted from carbohydrate-dominated to lipid-dominated respiration and showed progressive carbohydrate depletion. In drought trees, the fraction of carbohydrates used in respiration did not decline but respiration rates were strongly reduced. The lower consumption and potentially allocation from other organs may have caused initial carbohydrate content to remain constant during the experiment. Our results suggest that respiratory substrates other than carbohydrates are used under carbohydrate limitation but not during drought. Thus, respiratory substrate shift cannot provide an efficient means to counterbalance C limitation under natural drought.
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- Sarah Fischer
- Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knoll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knoll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743, Jena, Germany
- Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knoll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knoll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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Peuke AD, Gessler A, Trumbore S, Windt CW, Homan N, Gerkema E, VAN As H. Phloem flow and sugar transport in Ricinus communis L. is inhibited under anoxic conditions of shoot or roots. Plant Cell Environ 2015; 38:433-47. [PMID: 24995994 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2014] [Revised: 06/25/2014] [Accepted: 06/27/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Anoxic conditions should hamper the transport of sugar in the phloem, as this is an active process. The canopy is a carbohydrate source and the roots are carbohydrate sinks. By fumigating the shoot with N2 or flooding the rhizosphere, anoxic conditions in the source or sink, respectively, were induced. Volume flow, velocity, conducting area and stationary water of the phloem were assessed by non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) flowmetry. Carbohydrates and δ(13) C in leaves, roots and phloem saps were determined. Following flooding, volume flow and conducting area of the phloem declined and sugar concentrations in leaves and in phloem saps slightly increased. Oligosaccharides appeared in phloem saps and after 3 d, carbon transport was reduced to 77%. Additionally, the xylem flow declined and showed finally no daily rhythm. Anoxia of the shoot resulted within minutes in a reduction of volume flow, conductive area and sucrose in the phloem sap decreased. Sugar transport dropped to below 40% by the end of the N2 treatment. However, volume flow and phloem sap sugar tended to recover during the N2 treatment. Both anoxia treatments hampered sugar transport. The flow velocity remained about constant, although phloem sap sugar concentration changed during treatments. Apparently, stored starch was remobilized under anoxia.
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- Andreas D Peuke
- ADP International Plant Science Consulting, Talstraße 8, Gundelfingen, D-79194, Germany; Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V., Eberswalderstr. 84, Müncheberg, 15374, Germany
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Hartmann H, McDowell NG, Trumbore S. Allocation to carbon storage pools in Norway spruce saplings under drought and low CO2. Tree Physiol 2015; 35:243-252. [PMID: 25769339 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpv019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) are critical to maintain plant metabolism under stressful environmental conditions, but we do not fully understand how NSC allocation and utilization from storage varies with stress. While it has become established that storage allocation is unlikely to be a mere overflow process, very little empirical evidence has been produced to support this view, at least not for trees. Here we present the results of an intensively monitored experimental manipulation of whole-tree carbon (C) balance (young Picea abies (L.) H Karst.) using reduced atmospheric [CO2] and drought to reduce C sources. We measured specific C storage pools (glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch) over 21 weeks and converted concentration measurement into fluxes into and out of the storage pool. Continuous labeling ((13)C) allowed us to track C allocation to biomass and non-structural C pools. Net C fluxes into the storage pool occurred mainly when the C balance was positive. Storage pools increased during periods of positive C gain and were reduced under negative C gain. (13)C data showed that C was allocated to storage pools independent of the net flux and even under severe C limitation. Allocation to below-ground tissues was strongest in control trees followed by trees experiencing drought followed by those grown under low [CO2]. Our data suggest that NSC storage has, under the conditions of our experimental manipulation (e.g., strong progressive drought, no above-ground growth), a high allocation priority and cannot be considered an overflow process. While these results also suggest active storage allocation, definitive proof of active plant control of storage in woody plants requires studies involving molecular tools.
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- Henrik Hartmann
- Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Str. 10, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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- Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Str. 10, Jena 07745, Germany
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Hanf S, Fischer S, Hartmann H, Keiner R, Trumbore S, Popp J, Frosch T. Online investigation of respiratory quotients in Pinus sylvestris and Picea abies during drought and shading by means of cavity-enhanced Raman multi-gas spectrometry. Analyst 2015; 140:4473-81. [DOI: 10.1039/c5an00402k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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CERS monitoring of RQ values enables the analysis of nutrition shifts in trees in response to environmental stress.
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- Stefan Hanf
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
- Jena
- Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
- Jena
- Germany
- Friedrich Schiller University
- Institute for Physical Chemistry
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
- Jena
- Germany
- Friedrich Schiller University
- Institute for Physical Chemistry
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Czimczik C, Trumbore S, Xu X, Carbone M, Richardson A. Extraction of Nonstructural Carbon and Cellulose from Wood for Radiocarbon Analysis. Bio Protoc 2014. [DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.1169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Hartmann H, Ziegler W, Kolle O, Trumbore S. Thirst beats hunger - declining hydration during drought prevents carbon starvation in Norway spruce saplings. New Phytol 2013; 200:340-349. [PMID: 23692181 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2013] [Accepted: 04/14/2013] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Drought-induced tree mortality results from an interaction of several mechanisms. Plant water and carbon relations are interdependent and assessments of their individual contributions are difficult. Because drought always affects both plant hydration and carbon assimilation, it is challenging to disentangle their concomitant effects on carbon balance and carbon translocation. Here, we report results of a manipulation experiment specifically designed to separate drought effects on carbon and water relations from those on carbon translocation. In a glasshouse experiment, we manipulated the carbon balance of Norway spruce saplings exposed to either drought or carbon starvation (CO2 withdrawal), or both treatments, and compared the dynamics of carbon exchange, allocation and storage in different tissues. Drought killed trees much faster than did carbon starvation. Storage C pools were not depleted at death for droughted trees as they were for starved, well-watered trees. Hence drought has a significant detrimental effect on a plant's ability to utilize stored carbon. Unless they can be transported to where they are needed, sufficient carbon reserves alone will not assure survival of a drought except under specific conditions, such as moderate drought, or in species that maintain plant water relations required for carbon re-mobilization.
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- Henrik Hartmann
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knoll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knoll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knoll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knoll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
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Zhao J, Hartmann H, Trumbore S, Ziegler W, Zhang Y. High temperature causes negative whole-plant carbon balance under mild drought. New Phytol 2013; 200:330-339. [PMID: 23822669 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2013] [Accepted: 06/06/2013] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Theoretically, progressive drought can force trees into negative carbon (C) balance by reducing stomatal conductance to prevent water loss, which also decreases C assimilation. At higher temperatures, negative C balance should be initiated at higher soil moisture because of increased respiratory demand and earlier stomatal closure. Few data are available on how these theoretical relationships integrate over the whole plant. We exposed Thuja occidentalis to progressive drought under three temperature conditions (15, 25, and 35°C), and measured C and water fluxes using a whole-tree chamber design. High transpiration rates at higher temperatures led to a rapid decline in soil moisture. During the progressive drought, soil moisture-driven changes in photosynthesis had a greater impact on the whole-plant C balance than respiration. The soil moisture content at which whole-plant C balance became negative increased with temperature, mainly as a result of higher respiration rates and an earlier onset of stomatal closure under a warmer condition. Our results suggest that the effect of drought on whole-plant C balance is highly temperature-dependent. High temperature causes a negative C balance even under mild drought and may increase the risk of C starvation.
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- Junbin Zhao
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, 07745, Germany
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, 666303, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, 07745, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, 07745, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, 666303, China
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Hartmann H, Ziegler W, Trumbore S. Lethal drought leads to reduction in nonstructural carbohydrates in
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orway spruce tree roots but not in the canopy. Funct Ecol 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Henrik Hartmann
- Max‐Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Hans Knöll Str. 10 07745 Jena Germany
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- Max‐Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Hans Knöll Str. 10 07745 Jena Germany
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- Max‐Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Hans Knöll Str. 10 07745 Jena Germany
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Pérez T, Garcia-Montiel D, Trumbore S, Tyler S, de Camargo P, Moreira M, Piccolo M, Cerri C. Nitrous oxide nitrification and denitrification 15N enrichment factors from Amazon forest soils. Ecol Appl 2006; 16:2153-67. [PMID: 17205894 DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[2153:nonadn]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The isotopic signatures of 15N and 18O in N2O emitted from tropical soils vary both spatially and temporally, leading to large uncertainty in the overall tropical source signature and thereby limiting the utility of isotopes in constraining the global N2O budget. Determining the reasons for spatial and temporal variations in isotope signatures requires that we know the isotope enrichment factors for nitrification and denitrification, the two processes that produce N2O in soils. We have devised a method for measuring these enrichment factors using soil incubation experiments and report results from this method for three rain forest soils collected in the Brazilian Amazon: soil with differing sand and clay content from the Tapajos National Forest (TNF) near Santarém, Pará, and Nova Vida Farm, Rondônia. The 15N enrichment factors for nitrification and denitrification differ with soil texture and site: -111 per thousand +/- 12 per thousand and -31 per thousand +/- 11 per thousand for a clay-rich Oxisol (TNF), -102 per thousand +/- 5 per thousand and -45 per thousand +/- 5 per thousand for a sandier Ultisol (TNF), and -10.4 per thousand +/- 3.5 per thousand (enrichment factor for denitrification) for another Ultisol (Nova Vida) soil, respectively. We also show that the isotopomer site preference (delta15Nalpha - delta15Nbeta, where alpha indicates the central nitrogen atom and beta the terminal nitrogen atom in N2O) may allow differentiation between processes of production and consumption of N2O and can potentially be used to determine the contributions of nitrification and denitrification. The site preferences for nitrification and denitrification from the TNF-Ultisol incubated soils are: 4.2 per thousand +/- 8.4 per thousand and 31.6 per thousand +/- 8.1 per thousand, respectively. Thus, nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria populations under the conditions of our study exhibit significantly different 15N site preference fingerprints. Our data set strongly suggests that N2O isotopomers can be used in concert with traditional N2O stable isotope measurements as constraints to differentiate microbial N2O processes in soil and will contribute to interpretations of the isotopic site preference N2O values found in the free troposphere.
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- Tibisay Pérez
- Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC) Apartado 21827, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela.
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Vieira S, Trumbore S, Camargo PB, Selhorst D, Chambers JQ, Higuchi N, Martinelli LA. Slow growth rates of Amazonian trees: consequences for carbon cycling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:18502-7. [PMID: 16339903 PMCID: PMC1310511 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0505966102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Quantifying age structure and tree growth rate of Amazonian forests is essential for understanding their role in the carbon cycle. Here, we use radiocarbon dating and direct measurement of diameter increment to document unexpectedly slow growth rates for trees from three locations spanning the Brazilian Amazon basin. Central Amazon trees, averaging only approximately 1 mm/year diameter increment, grow half as fast as those from areas with more seasonal rainfall to the east and west. Slow growth rates mean that trees can attain great ages; across our sites we estimate 17-50% of trees with diameter >10 cm have ages exceeding 300 years. Whereas a few emergent trees that make up a large portion of the biomass grow faster, small trees that are more abundant grow slowly and attain ages of hundreds of years. The mean age of carbon in living trees (60-110 years) is within the range of or slightly longer than the mean residence time calculated from C inventory divided by annual C allocation to wood growth (40-100 years). Faster C turnover is observed in stands with overall higher rates of diameter increment and a larger fraction of the biomass in large, fast-growing trees. As a consequence, forests can recover biomass relatively quickly after disturbance, whereas recovering species composition may take many centuries. Carbon cycle models that apply a single turnover time for carbon in forest biomass do not account for variations in life strategy and therefore may overestimate the carbon sequestration potential of Amazon forests.
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- Simone Vieira
- Laboratório de Ecologia Isotópica, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, P.O. Box 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Dioumaeva I, Trumbore S, Schuur EAG, Goulden ML, Litvak M, Hirsch AI. Decomposition of peat from upland boreal forest: Temperature dependence and sources of respired carbon. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1029/2001jd000848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Gaudinski J, Trumbore S, Davidson E, Cook A, Markewitz D, Richter D. The age of fine-root carbon in three forests of the eastern United States measured by radiocarbon. Oecologia 2001; 129:420-429. [DOI: 10.1007/s004420100746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2000] [Accepted: 05/10/2001] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Martinelli IA, Pessenda LCR, Espinoza E, Camargo PB, Telles FC, Cerri CC, Victoria RL, Aravena R, Richey J, Trumbore S. Carbon-13 variation with depth in soils of Brazil and climate change during the Quaternary. Oecologia 1996; 106:376-381. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00334565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/1994] [Accepted: 11/18/1995] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Hughen KA, Overpeck JT, Peterson LC, Trumbore S. Rapid climate changes in the tropical Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Nature 1996. [DOI: 10.1038/380051a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 402] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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