Water storage dynamics in the main stem of subtropical tree species differing in wood density, growth rate and life history traits

Tree Physiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 354-365

  Oliva Carrasco, Laureano ^a,b,c   Bucci, Sandra J ^b,d   Di Francescantonio, Débora ^a,b   Lezcano, Oscar A ^a   Campanello, Paula I ^a,b   Scholz, Fabián G ^b,d   Rodríguez, Sabrina ^a,b,c   Madanes, N ^c   Cristiano, Piedad M ^c   Hao, Guang You ^e,f   Holbrook, N Michele ^f   Goldstein, Guillermo ^b,c,g  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGÍA SUBTROPICAL   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

^e INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

hydraulic safety margin; sap flow; sapwood capacitance; stored water use; volumetric water content

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SAP FLOW; SHADE TOLERANCE; WATER CONTENT; WATER STORAGE; WATER USE; WOOD;

WATER;

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; WOOD; XYLEM;

DROUGHTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84929577931     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpu087     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Borchert R, Pockman WT (2005) Water storage capacitance and xylem tension in isolated branches of temperate and tropical trees. Tree Physiol 25:457-466.
2. Bucci SJ, Goldstein G, Meinzer FC, Scholz FG, Franco AC, Bustamante M (2004) Functional convergence in hydraulic architecture and water relations of savanna trees: from leaf to whole plant. Tree Physiol 24:891-899.
3. Bucci SJ, Scholz FG, Goldstein G, Meinzer FC (2009) Soil water availability as determinant of the hydraulic architecture in Patagonian woody species. Oecologia 160:631-641.
4. Bucci SJ, Scholz FG, Campanello PI et al. (2012) Hydraulic differences along the water transport system of South American Nothofagus species: do leaves protect the stem functionality? Tree Physiol 32:880-893.
5. Burslem DFRP, Whitmore TC (1999) Species diversity, susceptibility to disturbance and tree population dynamics in tropical rain forests. J Veg Sci 10:767-776.
6. Campanello PI, Gatti MG, Ares A, Montti L, Goldstein G (2007) Tree regeneration and microclimate in a liana and bamboo-dominated semideciduous Atlantic forest. For Ecol Manag 252:108-117.
7. Cattelino PJ, Becker CA, Fuller LG (1986) Construction and installation of manmade dendrometer bands. North J Appl For 3:73-75.
8. Choat B, Jansen S, Brodribb TJ et al. (2012) Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought. Nature 491:752-756.
9. Clearwater MJ, Meinzer FC, Andrade JL, Goldstein G, Holbrook NM (1999) Potential errors in measurement of no uniform sap flow using heat dissipation probes. Tree Physiol 19:681-687.
10. Cochard H, Badel E, Herbette S, Delzon S, Choat B, Jansen S (2013) Methods for measuring plant vulnerability to cavitation: a critical review. J Exp Bot 64:4779-4791.
11. Do F, Rocheateu A (2002) Influence of natural temperature gradients on measurements of xylem sap flow with thermal dissipation probes. 1. Field observations and possible remedies. Tree Physiol 22:641-648.
12. Enquist BJ, West GB, Charnov EL, Brown JH (1999) Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants. Nature 401:907-911.
13. Gatti MG, Campanello PI, Montti LF, Goldstein G (2008) Frost resistance in the tropical palm Euterpe edulis and its pattern of distribution in the Atlantic forest of Argentina. For Ecol Manag 256:633-640.
14. Goldstein G, Meinzer FC, Monasterio M (1984) The role of capacitance in the water balance of Andean giant rosette species. Plant Cell Environ 21:397-406.
15. Goldstein G, Andrade JL, Meinzer FC, Holbrook NM, Cavalier J, Jackson P, Celis A (1998) Stem water storage and diurnal patterns of water use in tropical forest canopy trees. Plant Cell Environ 21:397-406.
16. Granier A (1985) Une nouvelle méthode pour la mesure du flux de séve brute dans le tronc des arbres. Ann Sci Forest 42:193-200.
17. Granier A (1987) Evaluation of transpiration in a Douglas fir stand by mean of sap flow measurement. Tree Physiol 3:309-320.
18. Hao G-H, Wheeler JK, Holbrook NM, Goldstein G (2013) Investigating xylem embolism formation, refilling and water storage in tree trunks using frequency domain reflectometry. J Exp Bot 64:2321-2332.
19. Holbrook NM, Sinclair TR (1992) Water balance in the arborescent palm, Sabal palmetto. II. Transpiration and stem water storage. Plant Cell Environ 15:401-409.
20. Leite PF, Klein RM (1990) Vegetacąõ. In: IBGE (eds) Geografia do Brasil: Regiaõ Sul. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Rio de Janeiro, pp 113-150.
21. Loustau D, Berbigier P, Roumagnac P, Arruda-Pacheco C, David JS, Ferreira MI, Pereira J, Tavares R (1996) Transpiration of a 64-year-old maritime pine stand in Portugal. 1. Seasonal course of water flux through maritime pine. Oecologia 107:33-42.
22. Meinzer FC, Clearwater MJ, Goldstein G (2001) Water transport in trees: current perspectives, new insights and some controversies. Environ Exp Bot 45:239-262.
23. Meinzer FC, James SA, Goldstein G, Woodruff D (2003) Whole-tree water transport scales with sapwood capacitance in tropical forest canopy trees. Plant Cell Environ 26:1147-1155.
24. Meinzer FC, Woodruff DR, Domec J-C, Goldstein G, Campanello PI, Gatti MG, Villalobos R (2008) Coordination of leaf and stem water transport properties in tropical forest trees. Oecologia 156:31-41.
25. Meinzer FC, Johnson DM, Lachenbruch B, McCulloh KA, Woodruff DR (2009) Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance. Funct Ecol 23:922-930.
26. Meinzer FC, McCulloh KA, Lachenbruch B, Woodruff DR, Johnson DM (2010) The blind men and the elephant: the impact of context and scale in evaluating conflicts between plant hydraulic safety and efficiency. Oecologia 164:287-296.
27. Muller-Landau HC (2004) lnterspecific and Inter-site variation in wood specific gravity of tropical trees. Biotropica 36:20-32.
28. Nobel PS, Jordan PW (1983) Transpiration stream of desert species: resistances and capacitances for a C3, a C4, and a CAM Plant. J Exp Bot 34:1379-1391.
29. Oliva Carrasco L, Bucci SJ, Scholz FG et al. (2013) Water storage discharge and refilling in the main stems of canopy tree species investigated using frequency domain reflectometry and point electronic dendrometers. Acta Hort 991:19-24.
30. Pennington RT, Lavin M, Oliveira-Filho A (2009) Woody plant diversity, evolution, and ecology in the tropics: perspectives from seasonally dry tropical forests. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 40:437-457.
31. Phillips N, Scholz FG, Bucci SJ, Goldstein G, Meinzer FC (2008) Using branch and basal trunk sap flow measurements to estimate whole-plant water capacitance: a caution. Plant Soil 305:5-13.
32. Santiago LS, Goldstein G, Meinzer FC, Fisher JB, Machado K, Woodruff D, Jones T (2004) Leaf photosynthetic traits scale with hydraulic conductivity and wood density in Panamanian forest canopy trees. Oecologia 140:543-550.
33. Scholz FG, Bucci SJ, Goldstein G, Meinzer FC, Franco AC, Miralles-Wilhelm F (2007) Biophysical properties and functional significance of stem water storage tissues in neotropical savanna trees. Plant Cell Environ 30:236-248.
34. Scholz FG, Bucci SJ, Goldstein G, Meinzer FC, Franco AC, Miralles-Wilhelm F (2008) Temporal dynamics of stem expansion and contraction in savanna trees: withdrawal and recharge of stored water. Tree Physiol 28:469-480.
35. Scholz FG, Phillips NG, Bucci SJ, Meinzer FC, Goldstein G (2011) Hydraulic capacitance; biophysic and functional significance of internal water sources in relation to tree size. In: Meinzer FC, Lachenbruch B, Dawson TE (eds) Size-and age-related changes in tree structure. Springer, New York, pp 341-361.
36. Schulze E, Eenmik D, Matyssek R, Penka M, Zimmennann R, Vasicek F, Gries W, Kueera J (1985) Canopy transpiration and water fluxes in the xylem of the trunk of Larix and Picea trees-a comparison of xylem flow, porometer and cuvette measurements. Oecologia 66:475-483.
37. Sperry JS, Saliendra NZ (1994) Intra-and inter-plant variation in xylem cavitation in Betula occidentalis. Plant Cell Environ 17:1233-1241.
38. Steppe K, Lemeur R (2004) An experimental system for analysis of the dynamic sap-flow characteristics in young trees: results of a beech tree. Funct Plant Biol 31:83-92.
39. Steppe K, De Pauw DJW, Lemeur R, Vanrolleghem PA (2006) A mathematical model linking tree sap flow dynamics to daily stem diameter fluctuations and radial stem growth. Tree Physiol 26:257-273.
40. Steppe K, De Pauw DJW, Doody TM, Teskey RO (2010) A comparison of sap flux density using thermal dissipation, heat pulse velocity and heat field deformation methods. Agric For Meteorol 150:1046-1056.
41. Steppe K, Cochard H, Lacointe A, Ameglio T (2012) Could rapid diameter changes be facilitated by a variable hydraulic conductance? Plant Cell Environ 35:150-157.
42. Stratton L, Goldstein G, Meinzer FC (2000) Stem water storage capacity and efficiency of water transport: their functional significance in a Hawaiian dry forest. Plant Cell Environ 23:99-106.
43. Villagra M, Campanello PI, Bucci SJ, Goldstein G (2013) Functional relationships between leaf hydraulics and leaf economics in response to nutrient addition in subtropical tree species. Tree Physiol 33:1308-1318.
44. Waring RH, Running SW (1978) Sapwood water storage: its contribution to transpiration and effect upon water conductance through the stems of old-growth Douglas-fir. Plant Cell Environ 1:131-140.
45. Werneck FP, Costa GC, Prado D. E, Sites JW (2011) Revisiting the historical seasonally dry tropical insights based on palaeodistribution modelling and palynological. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 20:272-288.
46. Wheeler JK, Huggett BA, Tofte AN, Rockwell FE, Holbrook NM (2013) Cutting xylem under tension or supersaturated with gas can generate PLC and the appearance of rapid recovery from embolism. Plant Cell Environ 36:1938-1949.