Diverging temperature response of tree stem CO2 release under dry and wet season conditions in a tropical montane moist forest

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 285-296

  Zach, Alexandra ^a   Horna, Viviana ^a   Leuschner, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climatic adaptation; Ecuador; Stem respiration; Temperature sensitivity of respiration; Tree species richness

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; CLIMATIC ADAPTATION; CO-EXISTING; COLLINEARITY; DISTRIBUTION CENTRES; DRY AND WET; DRY SEASONS; ECUADOR; HUMID CONDITIONS; IN-DEGREE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MOIST FORESTS; RESPIRATORY ACTIVITY; STEPWISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; TEMPERATURE REGIMES; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TREE SPECIES; TREE STEMS; TROPICAL MONTANE FOREST; VAPOUR PRESSURES; WIND SPEED; XYLEM SAP;

DROUGHT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MILITARY ENGINEERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUN; TRANSPIRATION;

FORESTRY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATES; DROUGHT; FOREIGN TRADE; FORESTRY; MILITARY ENGINEERING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUN LIGHT;

EID: 77952096250     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-009-0398-9     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Amthor JS (1989) Respiration and crop productivity. Springer, New York.
2. 2 in relation to the global carbon cycle. Glob Change Biol 1: 243-274. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-2486. 1995. tb00025. x.
3. Armstrong AF, Logan DC, Atkin OK (2006) On the developmental dependence of leaf respiration: responses to short- and long-term changes in growth temperature. Am J Bot 93: 1633-1639. doi: 10. 3732/ajb. 93. 11. 1633.
4. Arnone JA, Körner C (1997) Temperature adaptation and acclimation potential of leaf dark respiration in two species of Ranunculus from warm and cold habitats. Arct Alp Res 29: 122-125. doi: 10. 2307/1551842.
5. Atkin OK, Tjoelker MG (2003) Thermal acclimation and the dynamic response of plant respiration to temperature. Trends Plant Sci 8: 343-351. doi: 10. 1016/S1360-1385(03)00136-5.
6. Atkin OK, Holly C, Ball MC (2000) Acclimation of snow gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora) leaf respiration to seasonal and diurnal variations in temperature: the importance of changes in capacity and temperature sensitivity of respiration. Plant Cell Environ 23: 15-26. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1365-3040. 2000. 00511. x.
7. Atkin OK, Bruhn D, Hurry VM, Tjoelker MG (2005) The hot and the cold: unravelling the variable response of plant respiration to temperature. Funct Plant Biol 32: 87-105. doi: 10. 1071/FP03176.
8. Atkin OK, Scheurwater I, Pons TL (2006) High thermal acclimation potential of both photosynthesis and respiration in two lowland Plantago species in contrast to an alpine congeneric. Glob Change Biol 12: 500-515. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-2486. 2006. 01114. x.
9. Atkin OK, Scheurwater I, Pons TL (2007) Respiration as a percentage of daily photosynthesis in whole plants is homeostatic at moderate, but not high, growth temperatures. New Phytol 174: 367-380. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1469-8137. 2007. 02011. x.
10. Bendix J, Homeier J, Ortiz EC, Emck P, Breckle SW, Richter M, Beck E (2006) Seasonality of weather and tree phenology in a tropical evergreen mountain rain forest. Int J Biometeorol 50: 370-384. doi: 10. 1007/s00484-006-0029-8.
11. 2. Tree Physiol 16: 125-130.
12. Ceschia E (2001) Environmental effects on spatial and seasonal variations of stem respiration in European beech and Norway spruce. PhD thesis. Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden.
13. Chen JM, Liu J, Cihlar J, Goulden ML (1999) Daily canopy photosynthesis model through temporal and spatial for remote sensing applications. Ecol Model 124: 99-119. doi: 10. 1016/S0304-3800(99)00156-8.
14. Edward NT, Hanson PJ (1996) Stem respiration in a closed-canopy oak forest. Tree Physiol 16: 433-439.
15. Edwards NT, McLaughlin SB (1978) Temperature-independent diel variations of respiration rates in Quercus alba and Liriodendron tulipifera. Oikos 31: 200-206. doi: 10. 2307/3543563.
16. Edwards NT, Wullschleger SD (2000) Carbon dioxide efflux rates from stems of mature Quercus prinus L. and Acer rubrum L. trees do not appear to be affected by sapflow rates. J Sustain For 10: 125-131. doi: 10. 1300/J091v10n01_14.
17. Emck P (2007) A climatology of South Ecuador. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Universität Erlangen, Germany.
18. Enquist BJ, Kerkhoff AJ, Huxman TE, Economo EP (2007) Adaptive differences in plant physiology and ecosystem paradoxes: insights from metabolic scaling theory. Glob Change Biol 13: 591-609. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-2486. 2006. 01222. x.
19. Gansert D (1995) Die Wurzel- und Sprossrespiration junger Buchen (Fagus sylvatica L.) in einem montanen Moder-Buchenwald. PhD thesis. University of Göttingen, Germany.
20. Gansert D, Burkdorf M (2005) Effects of xylem sap flow on carbon dioxide efflux from stems of birch (Betula pendula Roth). Flora 200: 444-455.
21. 2 uptake and growth of a rainforest tree during tropical rainy seasons. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100: 572-576. doi: 10. 1073/pnas. 0133045100.
22. Gries D (2004) Ökophysiologische Grundlagen und biophysikalische Steuerung von der Kohlenstoffbilanz zweier edapisch gegensätzlicher Altbuchenbestände. Habilitation thesis, University of Göttingen, Germany.
23. Gunderson CA, Norby RJ, Wullschläger SD (2000) Acclimation of photosynthesis and respiration to simulated climatic warming in northern and southern populations of Acer saccharum: laboratory and field evidence. Tree Physiol 20: 87-96.
24. Hollinger DY, Kelliher FM, Byers JN, Hunt JE, McSeveny TM, Weir PL (1994) Carbon dioxide exchange between an undisturbed old-growth temperate forest and the atmosphere. Ecol 75: 134-150. doi: 10. 2307/1939390.
25. Homeier J (2004) Tree diversity, forest structure and growth dynamic of two tropical montane rain forests in Ecuador und Costa Rica. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Göttngen, Germany.
26. Horna V, Zimmermann R (2002) Carbon release from stems and branches of two tree species with contrasting phenology in a seasonally flooded Amazon forest. In: Lieberei R, Bianchi H-K, Boehm V, Reisdorff C (eds) Neotropical Ecosystems, Proceedings of the German-Brazilian Workshop, Hamburg 2000. GKSS-Geesthacht, Germany, pp 579-587.
27. Jorgensen PM, Yánez SL (eds) (1999) Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, Missouri.
28. Kerkhoff AJ, Enquist BJ, Elser JJ, Fagan WF (2005) Plant allometry, stoichiometry and the temperature-dependence of primary productivity. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 14: 585-598. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1466-822X. 2005. 00187. x.
29. Lambers H, Chapin FS, Pons TI (1998) Plant physiological ecology. Springer-Verlag, New York.
30. Larigauderie A, Körner C (1995) Acclimation of dark leaf respiration in alpine and lowland plant species. Ann Bot (Lond) 76: 245-252. doi: 10. 1006/anbo. 1995. 1093.
31. Lavigne MB (1987) Differences in stem respiration response to temperature between balsam fir trees in thinned and unthinned stands. Tree Physiol 3: 225-233.
32. Lavigne MB (1996) Comparing stem respiration and growth of jack pine provenances from northern and southern locations. Tree Physiol 16: 847-852.
33. Lendzian KJ (2006) Survival strategies of plants during secondary growth: barrier properties of phellems and lenticels towards water, oxygen and carbon dioxide. J Exp Bot 57: 2535-2546. doi: 10. 1093/jxb/erl014.
34. Leuschner C, Moser G, Bertsch C, Röderstein M, Hertel D (2007) Large elevation increase in the tree root/shoot ratio in a tropical mountain forest in Ecuador. Basic Appl Ecol 8: 219-230. doi: 10. 1016/j. baae. 2006. 02. 004.
35. 2 fluxes in two Sahelian shrub species (Guiera sengalensis and Combretum micranthum). Funct Ecol 12: 107-116. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1365-2435. 1998. 00156. x.
36. 2 in xylem sap on gas exchange of woody plants. Tree Physiol 19: 53-59.
37. Loveys BR, Atkinson LJ, Sherlock DJ, Roberts RL, Fitter AH, Atkin OK (2003) Thermal acclimation of leaf and root respiration: an investigation comparing inherently fast- and slow-growing plant species. Glob Change Biol 9: 895-910. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1365-2486. 2003. 00611. x.
38. Mahli Y, Phillips OL (2004) Tropical forests and global atmospheric change: a synthesis. Phil Trans R Soc Lond Ser B 359: 549-555. doi: 10. 1098/rstb. 2003. 1449.
39. 2 concentration in young loblolly pine trees. Plant Cell Environ 29: 1471-1483. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-3040. 2006. 01511. x.
40. Maier TA, Zarnoch SJ, Dougherty PM (1998) Effects of temperature and tissue nitrogen on dormant season stem and branch respiration in a young loblolly pine (Pinus tadea) plantation. Tree Physiol 18: 11-20.
41. Mayle FE, Beerling DJ, Gosling WD, Bush MB (2004) Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum. Phil Trans R Soc Lond Ser B 359: 499-514. doi: 10. 1098/rstb. 2003. 1434.
42. 2. Tree Physiol 24: 571-578.
43. Moser G, Roederstein M, Soethe N, Hertel D, Leuschner C (2008) Altitudinal changes in stand structure and biomass allocation of tropical mountain forests in relation to microclimate and soil chemistry. In: Beck E, Bendix J, Kottke I, Makeschin F, Mosandl R (eds) Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador, ecological studies 198. Springer, Berlin, pp 229-242.
44. Motzer T, Munz N, Küppers M, Schmitt D, Anhuf D (2005) Stomatal conductance, transpiration and sap flow of tropical montane rain forest trees in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes. Tree Physiol 25: 1283-1293.
45. Negisi K (1979) Bark respiration rate in stem segments detached from young Pinus densiflora trees in relation to velocity of artificial sap flow. J Jpn For Soc 61: 88-93.
46. Negisi K (1982) Diurnal fluctuations in the stem bark respiration in relationship to the wood temperature in standing young Pinus densiflora, Chamaecyparis obtusa and Quercus myrsinaefolia trees. J Jpn For Soc 64: 315-319.
47. Oren R, Pataki DE (2001) Transpiration in response to variation in microclimate and soil moisture in southeastern deciduous forests. Oecologia 127: 549-559. doi: 10. 1007/s004420000622.
48. Pfanz H (1999) Photosynthetic performance of twigs and stems of trees with and without stress. Phyt Ann Rei Bot 39: 29-33.
49. Pruyn ML, Gartner BL, Harmon ME (2002) Respiratory potential in sapwood of old versus young ponderosa pine trees in the Pacific Northwest. Tree Physiol 22: 105-116.
50. Pruyn ML, Gartner BL, Harmon ME (2005) Storage versus substrate limitation to bole respiratory potential in two coniferous tree species of contrasting sapwood width. J Exp Bot 56: 2637-2649. doi: 10. 1093/jxb/eri257.
51. Reich PB, Wright IJ, Cavender-Bares J, Craine JM, Oleksyn J, Westoby M, Walters MB (2003) The evolution of plant functional variation: traits, spectra, and strategies. Int J Plant Sci 164: S143-S164. doi: 10. 1086/374368.
52. Röderstein M, Hertel D, Leuschner C (2005) Above- and below-ground litter production in three tropical mountain forests (South Ecuador). J Trop Ecol 21: 483-483. doi: 10. 1017/S026646740500249X.
53. Ryan MG (1990) Growth and maintenance respiration in stems of Pinus contorta and Pinus engelmannii. Can J Res 20: 48-57. doi: 10. 1139/x90-008.
54. 2 efflux rates: is it caused by low stem turgor pressure? Ann Bot (Lond) 99: 477-485. doi: 10. 1093/aob/mcl268.
55. 2 efflux rates from young tree stems in the dormant season. Trees (Berl) 22: 165-174. doi: 10. 1007/s00468-006-0099-6.
56. Saveyn A, Steppe K, McGuire MA, Lemeur R, Teskey RO (2008b) Stem respiration and carbon dioxide efflux of young Populus deltoides trees in relation to temperature and xylem carbon dioxide concentration. Oecologia 154: 637-649. doi: 10. 1007/s00442-007-0868-y.
57. Schrumpf M, Guggenberger G, Schubert C, Valarezo C, Zech W (2001) Tropical montane rain forest soils-development and nutrient status along an altitudinal gradient in the south Ecuadorian Andes. Erde 132: 43-59.
58. Sorz J, Hietz P (2006) Gas diffusion through wood: implications for oxygen supply. Trees (Berl) 20: 34-41. doi: 10. 1007/s00468-005-0010-x.
59. Sprugel DG, Benecke U (1991) Measuring woody-tissue respiration and photosynthesis. In: Lassoie JP, Hinckley T (eds) Techniques and approaches in forest tree ecophysiology. CRC-Press Inc, Boston, pp 329-355.
60. 2 efflux rates of Populus deltoides stems. Funct Plant Biol 34: 785-792. doi: 10. 1071/FP07077.
61. Stockfors J, Linder S (1998) Effect of nitrogen on the seasonal course of growth and maintenance respiration in stems of Norway spruce trees. Tree Physiol 18: 155-166.
62. Strobel J (2004) Die Atmung der verholzten Organe von Altbuchen (Fagus sylvatica L.) in einem Kalk- und einem Sauerhumusbuchenwald. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Göttingen, Germany.
63. Teskey RO, McGuire MA (2002) Carbon dioxide transport in xylem causes errors in estimation of rates of respiration in stems and branches of trees. Plant Cell Environ 25: 1571-1577. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1365-3040. 2002. 00961. x.
64. 2 from roots. Plant Cell Environ 30: 570-579. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-3040. 2007. 01649. x.
65. 2 in tree stems. New Phytol 177: 17-32.
66. 2 in seedlings of boreal tree species in relation to plant size and relative growth rate. Glob Change Biol 49: 679-691. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1365-2486. 1999. 00257. x.
67. 10. Glob Change Biol 7: 223-230. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1365-2486. 2001. 00397. x.
68. 2 efflux rates in a tropical mountain rainforest in southern Ecuador. Tree Physiol 28: 67-74.