Comparisons in water relations of plants between newly formed riparian and non-riparian habitats along the bank of Three Gorges Reservoir, China

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 717-728

  Sun, Shuangfeng ^a,b   Huang, Jianhui ^a   Han, Xingguo ^a   Lin, Guanghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Riparian plants; Stable isotopes; Three Gorges Reservoir; Water potentials; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

CARBON ISOTOPE RATIOS; ECO-PHYSIOLOGY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; LEAF WATER; RIPARIAN HABITATS; RIPARIAN PLANTS; RIPARIAN TREES; RIPARIAN ZONES; RIVER BANKS; STABLE ISOTOPES; THREE GORGES; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; WATER POTENTIALS; WATER RELATIONS; WATER TABLE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; XYLEM WATER; YANGTZE RIVER;

RIVERS;

CARBON; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; PLANTS; RESERVOIRS; RIVERS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WATER; XYLEM;

EID: 52049121053     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-008-0232-9     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. HC Alberts RM Alberts MF Bloom AD LaFlamme S Teerikangas 2004 The Three Gorges Dam Project from a systems viewpoint Syst Res Behav Sci 21 585 602
2. LA Cernusak J Aranda JD Marshall K Winter 2007 Large variation in whole-plant water-use efficiency among tropical tree species New Phytol 173 294 305
3. Chen WL, Zhang XQ, Liang SY, Jin YX, Yang QX (1994) Plants and composite agricultural ecosystems of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region. Science Press, Beijing
4. RM Cheng WF Xiao JW Li J Ma JJ Han 2002 Analysis on forest plant diversity in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area Chinese J Appl Ecol 13 35 40
5. H Craig 1961 Isotopic variations in meteoric waters Science 133 7747 7751
6. 13C in two co-occurring Mediterranean oaks: relations to leaf growth and drought progression Funct Ecol 12 778 785
7. TE Dawson JR Ehleringer 1991 Streamside trees that do not use stream water Nature 350 335 337
8. TE Dawson S Mambelli AH Plamboeck PH Templer KP Tu 2002 Stable isotopes in plant ecology Annu Rev Ecol Syst 33 507 559
9. H Deng Q Wang 2001 Water and nutrient circulations in complex ecosystem of small catchment in the Three-Gorge Region Resour Environ Yangtze Basin 10 432 439
10. PL Drake PJ Franks 2003 Water resource partitioning, stem xylem hydraulic properties, and plant water use strategies in a seasonally dry riparian tropical rainforest Oecologia 137 321 329
11. GD Farquhar JR Ehleringer KT Hubick 1989 Carbon isotope discrimination and photosynthesis Annu Rev Plant Physiol 40 503 537
12. WL Graf 1999 Dam nation: a geographic census of American dams and their large-scale hydrologic impacts Water Resour Res 35 1305 1311
13. ZL Huang 2001 Biodiversity conservation for the Three Gorges Project Biodivers Sci 9 472 481
14. TE Kolb SC Hart R Amundson 1997 Boxelder water sources and physiology at perennial and ephemeral stream sites in Arizona Tree Physiol 17 151 160
15. H Liu HJ Liu JH Qu 2004 Effect of nitrogen and phosphorus on the water quality in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area during and after its construction J Environ Sci (China) 16 358 363
16. LJ Mensforth PJ Thorburn SD Tyerman GR Walker 1994 Sources of water used by riparian Eucalyptus camaldulensis overlying highly saline groundwater Oecologia 100 21 28
17. N Miller JM Jin H He CF Tsang 2005 Local climate sensitivity to the Three Gorges Dam Bull Am Meteorol Soc 86 334 335
18. MH O'Leary 1981 Carbon isotope fractionation in plants Phytochemistry 20 553 567
19. R Ryel A Leffler M Peek C Ivans M Caldwell 2004 Water conservation in Artemisia tridentata through redistribution of precipitation Oecologia 141 335 345
20. A Sellin 1996 Base water potential of Picea abies as a charateristic of the soil water status Plant Soil 184 273 280
21. GZ Shen ZQ Xie 2004 Three Gorges Project: chance and challenge Science 304 681 681
22. SD Smith AB Wellington JL Nachlinger CA Fox 1991 Functional-Responses of riparian vegetation to streamflow diversion in the Eastern Sierra-Nevada Ecol Appl 1 89 97
23. KA Snyder DG Williams 2000 Water sources used by riparian trees varies among stream types on the San Pedro River, Arizona Agric For Meteorol 105 227 240
24. VJ Terwilliger K Kitajima DJ Le Roux-Swarthout S Mulkey SJ Wright 2001 Intrinsic water-use efficiency and heterotrophic investment in tropical leaf growth of two Neotropical pioneer tree species as estimated from delta C-13 values New Phytol 152 267 281
25. Thorburn PJ, Walker GR (1993) The source of water transpired by Eucalyptus camaldulensis: soil, groundwater, or stream? In: Ehleringer JR, Hall AE, Farquhar GD (eds) Stable isotopes and plant carbon-water relations. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, pp 511-527
26. MT Tyree FW Ewers 1991 The hydraulic architecture of trees and other woody plants New Phytol 119 345 360
27. Tyree MT, Ewers FW (1996) Hydraulic architecture of woody tropical plants. In: Mulkey SS, Chazdon RL, Smith AP (eds) Tropical forest ecophysiology. Chapman & Hall, New York, pp 217-243
28. JWC White ER Cook JR Lawrence WS Broecker 1985 The deuterium to hydrogen ratios of sap in trees: implications for water sources and tree ring deuterium to hydrogen ratios Geochim Cosmochim Acta 49 237 246
29. JG Wu JH Huang XG Han ZQ Xie XM Gao 2003 Three-Gorges Dam-experiment in habitat fragmentation? Science 300 1239 1240
30. JG Wu JH Huang XG Han XM Gao FL He MX Jiang ZG Jiang RB Primack ZH Shen 2004 The Three Gorges Dam: an ecological perspective Front Ecol Environ 2 241 248