Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4758870 | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2018 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
We found similar long-term changes of tree-ring δ13C in the two species. Carbon isotopic discrimination of Dahurian larch and Mongolian pine was determined mainly by growing season temperature (positive) and moisture (negative), but with different signal strengths, suggesting that stomatal conductance influenced tree-ring δ13C. Commonality analysis showed that RCS growth was affected mainly by temperature, but also by the combined effect (interaction) of iWUE and temperature. However, the contribution of iWUE alone was lower for Mongolian pine. Our results suggest that the increased iWUE caused by increasing Ca will not improve tree growth sufficiently to compensate for temperature-induced water stress. The rate of temperature increase has slowed around 1990, which would have stabilized the degree of temperature-induced water stress, and this could be helpful to tree growth recovery in the permafrost region of northeastern China.
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Authors
Xuanwen Zhang, Xiaohong Liu, Qiuliang Zhang, Xiaomin Zeng, Guobao Xu, Guoju Wu, Wenzhi Wang,