当前位置: X-MOL 学术Agric. For. Meteorol. › 论文详情
Our official English website, www.x-mol.net, welcomes your feedback! (Note: you will need to create a separate account there.)
The impact of elevated CO2 concentration on photosynthesis, growth and hydraulics of evergreen and deciduous tree seedlings from a subtropical forest in Southwest China
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ( IF 6.2 ) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 , DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110021
Pei-Li Fu , Ya Zhang , Jin-Hua Qi , Yong-Jiang Zhang , Guang-You Hao , Patrick M. Finnegan , Qiao-Shun Yan , Ze-Xin Fan

Elevated CO concentration (eCO) in the atmosphere is expected to impact plant water relations and growth in several ecosystems across the globe. However, we still know little about such impact on tree species in subtropical regions. The present study investigated the impact of eCO on leaf gas exchange, nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations, leaf and stem hydraulic conductivity, and growth of seedlings of four evergreen and four deciduous tree species from a subtropical forest in Southwest China. We found that both evergreen and deciduous tree species at eCO had higher leaf area-based photosynthetic rates and lower leaf stomatal conductance. Further, leaf mass-based photosynthetic rate was more enhanced in evergreen than in deciduous trees at eCO. Biomass of evergreen and deciduous species was significantly higher at eCO, with large species-specific variation among the evergreen species. Leaf-specific hydraulic conductivity was more enhanced in deciduous tree species than that of evergreen tree species with eCO, which was mainly driven by the increase of biomass at eCO. Interestingly, eCO significantly strengthened the coordination of stem hydraulic conductivity with leaf-gas exchange, leaf phosphorus concentration, and plant biomass across evergreen and deciduous species. These results highlighted greater enhancement of photosynthesis and greater species-specific variation in biomass at eCO for evergreen species compared to deciduous species, and stronger hydraulic-photosynthesis correlations at eCO than at aCO for tree species from subtropical forests. The present study provides important insights on the potential impacts of eCO on plant eco-physiology, growth and forest succession in a subtropical forest under global climate change.
更新日期:2024-04-27
down
wechat
bug