Relationships of leaf dark respiration with light environment and tissue nitrogen content in juveniles of 11 cold-temperate tree species

Oecologia

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 318-329

  Lusk, Christopher H ^a   Reich, Peter B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Carbon balance; Deciduous angiosperms; Evergreen conifers; Shade tolerance

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; NITROGEN; RESPIRATION; TREE;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0034130009     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420051018     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Abrams MD, Kubiske ME (1990) Leaf structural characteristics of 31 hardwood and conifer tree species in central Wisconsin: influence of light regime and shade-tolerance rank. For Ecol Manage 31:245-253
2. 2 production by respiration in darkened and illuminated wheat leaves. Plant Physiol 71:574-581
3. Bazzaz FA, Carlson RW (1982) Photosynthetic acclimation to variability in the light environment of early and late successional plants. Oecologia 54:313-316
4. Brooks JR (1993) Light acclimation in Abies amabilis canopies. PhD dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle
5. Brooks JR, Hinkley TM, Ford DE, Sprugel DG (1991) Foliage dark respiration in Abies amabilis (Dougl.) Forbes: variation within the canopy. Tree Physiol 9:325-338
6. Chazdon RL (1992) Photosynthetic plasticity of two rain forest shrubs across natural gap transects Oecologia 92:586-592
7. Chazdon RL, Kaufman (1993) Plasticity of leaf anatomy of two rain forest shrubs in relation to photosynthetic light acclimation. Funct Ecol 7:385-394
8. Ellsworth DS, Reich PB (1992) Canopy structure and vertical patterns of photosynthesis and related leaf traits in a deciduous forest. Oecologia 96:169-178
9. Fowells, HA (1965) Silvics of forest trees of the United States (Agricultural Handbook 271). United States Department of Agriculture, Washington
10. Garnier E, Freijsen AHJ (1994) On ecological inference from laboratory experiments conducted under optimum conditions. In: Roy J, Garnier E (eds) A whole-plant perspective on carbon-nitrogen interactions. SPB Academic, The Hague, pp 267-294
11. Givnish TJ (1988) Adaptation to sun and shade: a whole-plant perspective. Aust J Plant Physiol 15:63-92
12. Goodchild DJ, Björkman O, Pyliotis NA (1972) Chloroplast ultra-structure, leaf anatomy, and content of chlorophyll and soluble protein in rainforest species. Carnegie Inst Washington Yearb 71:102-107
13. Grime JP (1965) Shade tolerance in flowering plants. Nature 208:161
14. King DA (1994) Influence of light level on growth and morphology of saplings in a Panamanian forest Am J Bot 81:948-957
15. Kitajima K (1994) Relative importance of photosynthetic traits and allocation patterns as correlates of seedling shade tolerance of 13 tropical trees. Oecologia 98:419-428
16. Lambers H, Szaniawski, RK, Visser R de (1983) Respiration for growth, maintenance and ion uptake. An evaluation of concepts, methods, values and their significance. Physiol Plant 58:556-563
17. Loach K (1967) Shade tolerance in tree seedlings. 1. Leaf photosynthesis and respiration in plants raised under artificial shade. New Phytol 66:607-621
18. Machado JL, Reich PB (1999) Evaluation of several measures of canopy openness as predictors of photosynthetic photon flux density in a forest understorey. Can J For Res 29: 1438-1444
19. Mooney HA, Gulmon SL (1979) Environmental and evolutionary constraints on the photosynthetic characteristics of higher plants. In: Solbrig OT, Jain S, Johnson GB, Raven PH (eds) Topics in plant population biology. Columbia University Press, New York, pp 316-337
20. Niinemets U (1997) Role of foliar nitrogen in light harvesting and shade tolerance of four temperate deciduous woody taxa. Funct Ecol 11:518-531
21. Niinemets U, Kull K (1994) Leaf weight per unit area and leaf size of 85 Estonian woody species in relation to shade tolerance and light availability. For Ecol Manag 70:1-10
22. Niinemets U, Tenhunen JD (1997) A model separating leaf structural and physiological effects on carbon gain along light gradients for the shade-tolerant species Acer saccharum. Plant Cell Environ 20:845-866
23. Read J, Hill RS (1985) Photosynthetic responses to light of Australian and Chilean species of Nothofagus and their relevance to the rainforest dynamics. New Phytol 101:731-742
24. Reich PB, Ellsworth DS, Uhl C (1995a) Leaf carbon and nutrient assimilation and conservation in species of differing successional status in an oliaotrophic Amazonian forest. Funct Ecol 9:65-76
25. Reich PB, Koike T, Gower STA, Schoettle AW (1995b) Causes and consequences of variation in conifer leaf life-span. In: Smith WK, Hinkley TM (eds) Ecophysiology of coniferous forests. Academic Press, San Diego, pp 225-254
26. Reich PB, Walters MB, Ellsworth DS, Vose JM, Volin JC, Gresham C, Bowman WD (1998a) Relationships of leaf dark respiration to leaf N, SLA and lifespan: a test across biomes and functional groups. Oecologia 114:471-482
27. Reich PB, Walters MB, Tjoelker MG, Vanderklein D, Buschena C (1998b) Photosynthesis and respiration rates depend on leaf and root morphology and nitrogen concentration in nine boreal tree species differing in relative growth rate. Funct Ecol 12:395-405
28. Ryan MG (1991) The effect of climate change on plant respiration. Ecol Appl 1:157-167
29. Ryan MG (1995) Foliar maintenance respiration of subalpine and boreal trees and shrubs in relation to nitrogen content. Plant Cell Environ 18:765-772
30. Seeman JR, Sharkey TD, Wang JL, Osmond, CB (1987) Environmental effects on photosynthesis, nitrogen-use efficiency and metabolite pools in leaves of sun and shade plants. Plant Physiol 84:796-802
31. Sims DA, Pearcy RW (1991) Photosynthesis and respiration in Alocasia macrorrhiza following transfers to high and low light. Oecologia 86:447-453
32. Sprugel DG, Ryan MG, Brooks JR, Vogt KA, Martin T (1995) Respiration from the organ level to the stand. In: Smith WK, Hinkley TM (eds) Resource physiology of conifers. Academic Press, San Diego, pp 255-299
33. Strauss-Debenedetti S, Bazzaz FA (1991) Plasticity and acclimation to light in tropical Moraceae of different successional positions. Oecologia 87:377-387
34. Vitousek PM, Van Cleve K, Matson PA (1989) Nitrogen availability and nitrification during succession: primary, secondary and old-field seres. Plant Soil 115:229-239
35. Walters MB, Reich PB (1999) Low light carbon balance and shade tolerance in the seedlings of woody plants: do winter deciduous and broad-leaved evergreen species differ? New Phytol 143:43-154
36. 2 exchange of northern hardwood seedlings in high and low light: relationships with successional status and shade tolerance. Oecologia 94:7-16
37. Williams KC, Field CB, Mooney HA (1989) Relationships among leaf construction cost, leaf longevity and light environment in rain-forest plants of the genus Piper. Am Nat 133:198-211