Drought stress, growth and nonstructural carbohydrate dynamics of pine trees in a semi-arid forest

Tree Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 981-992

  Klein, Tamir ^a,b   Hoch, Günter ^a   Yakir, Dan ^b   Körner, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carbon balance; Carbon transport; Phloem; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON BALANCE; CHRONOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RATE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHLOEM; SEMIARID REGION;

ISRAEL; SOUTHERN DISTRICT; YATIR FOREST;

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DESERT CLIMATE; DROUGHT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISRAEL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PINE; PLANT; PLANT ROOT;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DESERT CLIMATE; DROUGHTS; ISRAEL; PINUS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84911886188     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpu071     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Adams HD, Guardiola-Claramonte M, Barron-Gafford GA, Villegas JC, Breshears DD, Zou CB, Troch PA, Huxman TE (2009) Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:7063-7066.
2. Allen CD, Macalady AK, Chenchouni H et al. (2010) A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests. For Ecol Manag 259:660-684.
3. Alpert P, Baldi M, Ilani R et al. (2006) Relations between climate variability in the Mediterranean region and the tropics: ENSO, South Asian and African monsoons, hurricanes and Saharan dust. Dev Earth Environ Sci 4:149-177.
4. Atzmon N, Schiller G, Riov Y (2002) Survey of seasonal carbohydrate level fluctuations as a basis to understand development and growth of forest trees in Israel. KKL-JNF Report #90-3-085-02.
5. Baldocchi D (1997) Measuring and modeling carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange over a temperate broad-leaved forest during the 1995 summer drought. Plant Cell Environ 20:1108-1122.
6. Burke EJ, Brown SJ, Christidis N (2006) Modeling the recent evolution of global drought and projections for the twenty-first century with the Hadley centre climate model. J Hydrometeorol 7:1113-1125.
7. Cermak J, Kucera J, Nadezhdina N (2004) Sap flow measurements with some thermodynamic methods, flow integration within trees and scaling up from sample trees to entire forest stands. Trees 18:529-546.
8. Christensen JH, Hewitson B, Busuic A et al. (2007) Regional climate projections. In: Solomon S, Qin D, Manning M, Chen Z, Marquis M, Averyt KB, Tingor M, Miller HL (eds) Climate change 2007: the physical science basis. Contributions of working group I to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK/New York, NY, pp 847-940.
9. Ciais P, Reichstein M, Vivoy N et al. (2005) Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003. Nature 437:529-533.
10. Cohen Y, Cohen S, Cantuarias-Aviles T, Schiller G (2008) Variations in the radial gradient of sap velocity in trunks of forest and fruit trees. Plant Soil 305:49-59.
11. Dorman M, Svoray T, Perevolotsky A, Sarris D (2013) Forest performance during two consecutive drought periods: diverging long-term trends and short-term responses along a climatic gradient. For Ecol Manag 310:1-9.
12. 2 enrichment of wheat: leaf flavonoid concentration throughout the growth cycle. Physiol Plant 105:423-433.
13. Fernandes M, Royo A, Gil L, Pardos JA (2003) Effects of temperature on growth and stress hardening development of phytotron-grown seedlings of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis). Ann For Sci 60:277-284.
14. Galiano L, Martinez-Vilalta J, Lloret F (2011) Carbon reserves and canopy defoliation determine the recovery of Scots pine 4 yr after a drought episode. New Phytol 190:750-759.
15. Galvez DA, Landhäusser SM, Tyree MT (2011) Root carbon reserve dynamics in aspen seedlings: does simulated drought induce reserve limitation? Tree Physiol 31:250-257.
16. Galvez DA, Landhäusser SM, Tyree MT (2013) Low root reserve accumulation during drought may lead to winter mortality in poplar seedlings. New Phytol 198:139-148.
17. Granier A, Loustau D (1994) Measuring and modeling the transpiration of a maritime pine canopy from sap-flow data. Agric For Meteorol 71:61-81.
18. Granier A, Reichstein M, Bréda N et al. (2007) Evidence for soil water control on carbon and water dynamics in European forests during the extremely dry year: 2003. Agric For Meteorol 143:123-145.
19. Grünzweig JM, Lin T, Rotenberg E, Schwartz A, Yakir D (2003) Carbon sequestration in arid-land forest. Glob Change Biol 9:791-799.
20. Grünzweig JM, Carmel Y, Riov J, Sever N, McCreary DD, Flather CH (2008) Growth, resource storage, and adaptation in California and eastern Mediterranean oak seedlings. Can J For Res 38:331-342.
21. Hartmann H, Ziegler W, Trumbore S (2013) Lethal drought leads to reduction in nonstructural carbohydrates in Norway spruce tree roots but not in the canopy. Funct Ecol 27:413-427.
22. Hoch G, Popp M, Körner C (2002) Altitudinal increase of mobile carbon pools in Pinus cembra suggests sink limitation of growth at the Swiss treeline. Oikos 98:361-374.
23. Hoch G, Richter A, Körner C (2003) Non-structural carbon compounds in temperate forest trees. Plant Cell Environ 26:1067-1081.
24. Klein T, Hemming D, Lin T, Grünzweig JM, Maseyk KS, Rotenberg E, Yakir D (2005) Association between tree-ring and needle delta C-13 and leaf gas exchange in Pinus halepensis under semi-arid conditions. Oecologia 144:45-54.
25. Klein T, Cohen S, Yakir D (2011) Hydraulic adaptations underlying drought resistance of Pinus halepensis. Tree Physiol 31:637-648.
26. Klein T, Di Matteo G, Rotenberg E, Cohen S, Yakir D (2013) Differential ecophysiological response of a major Mediterranean pine species across a climatic gradient. Tree Physiol 33:26-36.
27. Klein T, Rotenberg E, Cohen-Hilaleh E, Raz-Yaseef N, Tatarinov F, Ogée J, Cohen S, Yakir D (2014) Quantifying transpirable soil water and its relations to tree water use dynamics in a water-limited pine forest. Ecohydrology 7:409-419.
28. Körner C (2003) Carbon limitation in trees. J Ecol 91:4-17.
29. 2. Science 309:1360-1362.
30. Leuzinger S, Zotz G, Asshof R, Körner C (2005) Response of deciduous forest trees to severe drought in Central Europe. Tree Physiol 25:641-650.
31. Maseyk K, Grünzweig JM, Rotenberg E, Yakir D (2008a) Respiration acclimation contributes to high carbon-use efficiency in a seasonally dry pine forest. Glob Change Biol 14:1-15.
32. Maseyk K, Lin T, Rotenberg E, Grünzweig JM, Schwartz A, Yakir D (2008b) Physiology-phenology interactions in a productive semi-arid pine forest. New Phytol 178:603-616.
33. Maseyk K, Hemming D, Angert A, Leavitt SW, Yakir D (2011) Increase in water-use efficiency and underlying processes in pine forests across a precipitation gradient in the dry Mediterranean region over the past 30 years. Oecologia 167:573-585.
34. McClaugherty CA, Aber JD, Melillo JM (1982) The role of fine roots in the organic matter and nitrogen budgets of two forested ecosystems. Ecology 63:1481-1490.
35. McDowell NG, Pockman WT, Allen CD et al. (2008) Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought? New Phytol 178:719-739.
36. McDowell NG, Beerling DJ, Breshears DD, Fisher RA, Stitt M (2011) The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality. Trend Ecol Evol 26:523-532.
37. Millard P, Sommerkorn M, Grelet GA (2007) Environmental change and carbon limitation in trees: a biochemical, ecophysiological and ecosystem appraisal. New Phytol 175:11-28.
38. Mitchell PJ, O'Grady AP, Tissue DT, White DA, Ottenschlaeger ML, Pinkard EA (2013) Drought response strategies define the relative contributions of hydraulic dysfunction and carbohydrate depletion during tree mortality. New Phytol 197:862-872.
39. Muller B, Pantin F, Genard M, Turc O, Freixes S, Piques M, Gibon Y (2011) Water deficits uncouple growth from photosynthesis, increase C content, and modify the relationships between C and growth in sink organs. J Exp Bot 62:1715-1729.
40. Oberhuber W, Gruber A (2010) Climatic influences on intra-annual stem radial increment of Pinus sylvestris (L.) exposed to drought. Trees 24:887-898.
41. O'Brien MJ, Leuzinger S, Philipson CD, Tay J, Hector A (2014) Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels. Nat Clim Change 4:710-714.
42. O'Neill EJ, Cresser MS (1980) Use of a vibratory ball-mill for the extraction of plant pigments. Analyst 105:625-629.
43. 2-enriched atmosphere. Nature 411:469-472.
44. Palacio S, Hoch G, Sala A et al. (2014) Does carbon storage limit tree growth? New Phytol 201:1096-1100.
45. Porra RJ, Thompson WA, Kriedmann PE (1989) Determination of accurate extinction coefficients and simultaneous equations for assaying chlorophylls a and b extracted with four different solvents: verification of the concentration of chlorophyll standards by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Biochim Biophys Acta 975:384-394.
46. Poyatos R, Aguade D, Galiano L, Mencuccini M, Martinez-Vilalta J (2013) Drought-induced defoliation and long periods of near-zero gas exchange play a key role in accentuating metabolic decline of Scots pine. New Phytol 200:388-401.
47. Reyer C, Leuzinger S, Rammig A et al. (2012) A plant's perspective of extremes: terrestrial plant responses to changing climatic variability. Glob Change Biol 19:75-89.
48. Rotenberg E, Yakir D (2010) Contribution of semi-arid forests to the climate system. Science 327:451-454.
49. Royo A, Gil L, Pardos JA (2001) Effect of water stress conditioning on morphology, physiology and field performance of Pinus halepensis Mill. seedlings. New For 21:127-140.
50. Saffell B, Meinzer FC, Woodruff DR, Shaw DC, Voelker SL, Lachenbruch B, Falk K (2014) Seasonal carbohydrate dynamics and growth in Douglas-fir trees experiencing chronic, fungal-mediated reduction in functional leaf area. Tree Physiol. 34:218-228.
51. Sala A, Hoch G (2009) Height-related growth declines in ponderosa pine are not due to carbon limitation. Plant Cell Environ 32:22-30.
52. Sala A, Piper F, Hoch G (2010) Physiological mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality are far from being resolved. New Phytol 186:274-281.
53. Sala A, Woodruff DR, Meinzer FC (2012) Carbon dynamics in trees: feast or famine? Tree Physiol 32:764-775.
54. Sarris D, Siegwolf R, Körner C (2013) Inter- and intra-annual stable carbon and oxygen isotope signals in response to drought in Mediterranean pines. Agric For Meteorol 168:59-68.
55. Sprugel DG, Hinckley TM, Schaap W (1991) The theory and practice of branch autonomy. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 22:309-334.
56. Srichuwong S, Jane J-L (2007) Physiochemical properties of starch affected by molecular composition and structures. Food Sci Biotech 16:663-674.
57. Villar-Salvador P, Ocana L, Penuelas J, Carrasco I (1999) Effect of water stress conditioning on the water relations, root growth capacity, and the nitrogen and non-structural carbohydrate concentration of Pinus halepensis Mill (Aleppo pine) seedlings. Ann For Sci 56:459-465.
58. Wiley E, Helliker B (2012) A re-evaluation of carbon storage in trees lends greater support for carbon limitation to growth. New Phytol 195:285-289.
59. 2 and plant growth: ii. non-structural carbohydrate content in cotton plants and its effect on growth parameters. Photosynth Res 23:171-180.
60. Würth MKR, Pelaez-Riedl S, Wright SJ, Körner C (2005) Non-structural carbohydrate pools in a tropical forest. Oecologia 143:11-24.
61. Zeppel M, Macinnis-Ng CMO, Ford CR, Eamus D (2008) The response of sap flow to pulses of rain in a temperate Australian woodland. Plant Soil 305:121-130.
62. Zhang X, Zwiers FW, Hegerl GC, Lambert HL, Gillett NP, Solomon S, Stott PA, Nozawa T (2007) Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends. Nature 448:461-465.