Rapid mixing between old and new C pools in the canopy of mature forest trees

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 963-972

  Keel, Sonja G ^a,c   Siegwolf, Rolf T W ^a   Jäggi, Maya ^a   Körner, Christian ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allocation; Autocorrelation; Carbohydrates; Climate reconstruction; Deciduous; Evergreen; Labelling; Lipids; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

AUTOCORRELATION; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SINK; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EVERGREEN FOREST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LIPID; MIXING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BARK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TREE; WOOD;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT BARK; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; WOOD;

FAGUS; MALVACEAE; QUERCUS; TILIA;

EID: 34447121966     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01688.x     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Aschan G., Wittmann C. Pfanz H. (2001) Age-dependent bark photosynthesis of aspen twigs. Trees - Structure and Function 15, 431 437.
2. Asshoff R., Zotz G. Körner C. (2006) Growth and phenology of mature temperate forest trees in elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 12, 848 861.
3. Balatinecz J.J., Forward D.F. Bidwell R.G.S. (1966) Distribution of photoassimilated C14O2 in young jack pine seedlings. Canadian Journal of Botany 44, 362 364.
4. Brandes E., Kodama N., Whittaker K., Weston C., Rennenberg H., Keitel C., Adams M.A. Gessler A. (2006) Short-term variation in the isotopic composition of organic matter allocated from the leaves to the stem of Pinus sylvestris: effects of photosynthetic and postphotosynthetic carbon isotope fractionation. Global Change Biology 12, 1922 1939.
5. Cernusak L.A. Marshall J.D. (2000) Photosynthetic refixation in branches of western white pine. Functional Ecology 14, 300 311.
6. Chevillat V.S., Siegwolf R.T.W., Pepin S. Körner C. (2005) Tissue-specific variation of δ13C in mature canopy trees in a temperate forest in central Europe. Basic and Applied Ecology 6, 519 534.
7. Damesin C. Lelarge C. (2003) Carbon isotope composition of current-year shoots from Fagus sylvatica in relation to growth, respiration and use of reserves. Plant, Cell & Environment 26, 207 219.
8. Dickson R.E. (1991) Assimilate distribution and storage. In Physiology of Trees (ed. A.S. Raghavendra pp. 51 85. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, USA.
9. von Felten S., Hättenschwiler S., Saurer M. Siegwolf R. (2007) Carbon allocation in shoots of alpine treeline conifers in a CO2 enriched environment. Trees - Structure and Function 21, 283 294.
10. Foote K.C. Schaedle M. (1976) Diurnal and seasonal patterns of photosynthesis and respiration by stems of Populus tremuloides Michx. Plant Physiology 58, 651 655.
11. Gordon J.C. Larson P.R. (1968) Seasonal course of photosynthesis, respiration, and distribution of 14C in young Pinus resinosa trees as related to wood formation. Plant Physiology 43, 1617 1624.
12. Hansen P. (1967) 14C-studies on apple trees. III. The influence of season on storage and mobilization of labelled compounds. Physiologia Plantarum 20, 1103 1111.
13. Hansen J. Beck E. (1994) Seasonal-changes in the utilization and turnover of assimilation products in 8-year-old Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees. Trees - Structure and Function 8, 172 182.
14. Helfter C., Shephard J.D., Martinez-Vilalta J., Mencuccini M. Hand D.P. (2007) A noninvasive optical system for the measurement of xylem and phloem sap flow in woody plants of small stem size. Tree Physiology 27, 169 179.
15. Hoch G., Richter A. Körner C. (2003) Non-structural carbon compounds in temperate forest trees. Plant, Cell & Environment 26, 1067 1081.
16. Hymus G.J., Maseyk K., Valentini R. Yakir D. (2005) Large daily variation in 13C-enrichment of leaf-respired CO2 in two Quercus forest canopies. New Phytologist 167, 377 384.
17. Kagawa A., Sugimoto A. Maximov T.C. (2006) 13CO2 pulse-labelling of photoassimilates reveals carbon allocation within and between tree rings. Plant, Cell & Environment 29, 1571 1584.
18. Keel S.G., Siegwolf R.T.W. Körner C. (2006) Canopy CO2 enrichment permits tracing the fate of recently assimilated carbon in a mature deciduous forest. New Phytologist 172, 319 329.
19. Keel S.G., Pepin S., Leuzinger S. Körner C. (2007) Stomatal conductance in mature deciduous forest trees exposed to elevated CO2. Trees - Structure and Function 21, 151 159.
20. Keitel C., Adams M.A., Holst T., Matzarakis A., Mayer H., Rennenberg H. Gessler A. (2003) Carbon and oxygen isotope composition of organic compounds in the phloem sap provides a short-term measure for stomatal conductance of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Plant, Cell & Environment 26, 1157 1168.
21. Kesselmeier J. Staudt M. (1999) Biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOC): an overview on emission, physiology and ecology. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 33, 23 88.
22. Körner C. Würth M. (1996) A simple method for testing leaf responses of tall tropical forest trees to elevated CO2. Oecologia 107, 421 425.
23. Körner C., Asshoff R., Bignucolo O., Hättenschwiler S., Keel S.G., Peláez-Riedl S., Pepin S., Siegwolf R.T.W. Zotz G. (2005) Carbon flux and growth in mature deciduous forest trees exposed to elevated CO2. Science 309, 1360 1362.
24. Leavitt S.W. Long A. (1991) Seasonal stable-carbon isotope variability in tree rings - possible paleoenvironmental signals. Chemical Geology 87, 59 70.
25. Leuzinger S., Zotz G., Asshoff R. Körner C. (2005) Responses of deciduous forest trees to severe drought in Central Europe. Tree Physiology 25, 641 650.
26. Libby L.M. Pandolfi L.J. (1974) Temperature-dependence of isotope ratios in tree rings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 71, 2482 2486.
27. Mazany T., Lerman J.C. Long A. (1980) Carbon-13 in tree-ring cellulose as an indicator of past climates. Nature 287, 432 435.
28. Monserud R.A. Marshall J.D. (2001) Time-series analysis of δ13C from tree rings. I. Time trends and autocorrelation. Tree Physiology 21, 1087 1102.
29. Nogués S., Damesin C., Tcherkez G., Maunoury F., Cornic G. Ghashghaie J. (2006) 13C/12C isotope labelling to study leaf carbon respiration and allocation in twigs of field-grown beech trees. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 20, 219 226.
30. Pearman G.I., Francey R.J. Fraser P.J.B. (1976) Climatic implications of stable carbon isotopes in tree rings. Nature 260, 771 773.
31. Pepin S. Körner C. (2002) Web-FACE: a new canopy free-air CO2 enrichment system for tall trees in mature forests. Oecologia 133, 1 9.
32. Pfanz H., Aschan G., Langenfeld-Heyser R., Wittmann C. Loose M. (2002) Ecology and ecophysiology of tree stems: corticular and wood photosynthesis. Naturwissenschaften 89, 147 162.
33. Poorter H., Pepin S., Rijkers T., de Jong Y., Evans J.R. Körner C. (2006) Construction costs, chemical composition and payback time of high- and low-irradiance leaves. Journal of Experimental Botany 57, 355 371.
34. Rangnekar P.V. Forward D.F. (1972) Foliar nutrition and growth in red pine - distribution of photoassimilated carbon in seedlings during bud expansion. Canadian Journal of Botany 50, 2053 2061.
35. Rangnekar P.V., Forward D.F. Nolan N.J. (1969) Foliar nutrition and wood growth in red pine - distribution of radiocarbon photoassimilated by individual branches of young trees. Canadian Journal of Botany 47, 1701 1711.
36. R Development Core Team (2004) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0. URL http://www.R-project.org [accessed on 15 November 2004 J. (1887) Vorlesungen über Pflanzenphysiologie, 2nd edn. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, Germany.
37. Schier G.A. (1970) Seasonal pathways of 14C photosynthate in red pine labeled in May, July, and October. Forest Science 16, 1 13.
38. Schleser G.H., Helle G., Lucke A. Vos H. (1999) Isotope signals as climate proxies: the role of transfer functions in the study of terrestrial archives. Quaternary Science Reviews 18, 927 943.
39. Shiroya T., Lister G.R., Slankis V., Krotkov G. Nelson C.D. (1966) Seasonal changes in respiration, photosynthesis, and translocation of 14C-labelled products of photosynthesis in young Pinus strobus L. plants. Annals of Botany 30, 81 91.
40. Smith J.L. Paul E.A. (1988) Use of an in situ labeling technique for the determination of seasonal 14C distribution in ponderosa pine. Plant and Soil 106, 221 229.
41. Tcherkez G., Nogués S., Bleton J., Cornic G., Badeck F. Ghashghaie J. (2003) Metabolic origin of carbon isotope composition of leaf dark-respired CO2 in French bean. Plant Physiology 131, 237 244.
42. Wiebe H.H. (1975) Photosynthesis in wood. Physiologia Plantarum 33, 245 246.
43. Zimmermann M.H. Brown C.L. (1971) Trees Structure and Function. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany/New York, NY, USA.
44. Zotz G., Pepin S. Körner C. (2005) No down-regulation of leaf photosynthesis in mature forest trees after three years of exposure to elevated CO2. Plant Biology 7, 369 374.