Elevated CO2 increases tree-level intrinsic water use efficiency: Insights from carbon and oxygen isotope analyses in tree rings across three forest FACE sites

New Phytologist

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 544-554

  Battipaglia, Giovanna ^a,b   Saurer, Matthias ^c   Cherubini, Paolo ^d   Calfapietra, Carlo ^e   Mccarthy, Heather R ^f   Norby, Richard J ^g   Francesca Cotrufo, M ^h  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendro ecology; Liquidambar styraciflua; Pinus taeda; Populus euramericana; Populus alba; Populus nigra

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; WATER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DENDROECOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TREE RING; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

AIR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DRUG EFFECT; ITALY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STOMA; PRESSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

AIR; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE; ITALY; NORTH CAROLINA; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT STOMATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TENNESSEE; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WATER;

ITALY; NORTH CAROLINA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

LIQUIDAMBAR; LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA; PINUS TAEDA; POPULUS; POPULUS ALBA; POPULUS NIGRA; POPULUS SP.;

EID: 84871269815     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12044     Document Type: Article

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