Stem radial growth and water storage responses to heat and drought vary between conifers with differing hydraulic strategies: Semiarid conifers responses to drought and heat

Manrique-Alba, Àngela; Sevanto, Sanna; Adams, Henry D.; Collins, Adam D.; Dickman, Lee T.; Chirino, Esteban; Bellot, Juan; McDowell, Nate G.

doi:10.1111/pce.13340

Title: Stem radial growth and water storage responses to heat and drought vary between conifers with differing hydraulic strategies: Semiarid conifers responses to drought and heat

Journal Article · Fri Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Plant, Cell and Environment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13340· OSTI ID:1479960

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Univ. of Alicante, Alicante (Spain). IMEM "Ramon Margalef, Dept. of Ecology
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States). Dept. of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
Univ. Laica "Eloy Alfaro" de Manabí (Ecuador). Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Here, we investigated stem radial growth and water storage dynamics of 2 conifer species differing in hydraulic carbon strategies, Juniperus monosperma and Pinus edulis, under conditions of ambient, drought (~45% reduction in precipitation), heat (~4.8 °C temperature increase), and the combination of drought + heat, in 2013 and 2014. Juniper maintained low growth across all treatments. Overall, the relatively isohydric piñon pine showed significantly greater growth and water storage recharge than the relatively anisohydric juniper across all treatments in the average climate year (2014) but no differences in the regionally dry year (2013). Piñon pine ceased growth at a constant predawn water potential across all treatments and at a less negative water potential threshold than juniper. Heat has a greater negative impact on piñon pines' growth and water storage than drought, whereas juniper was, in contrast, unaffected by heat but strongly impacted by drought. The whole-plant hydraulic carbon strategies, in this case captured using the isohydric/anisohydric concept, translate into alternative growth and water storage strategies under drought and heat conditions.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC). Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1479960

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-24643

Journal Information:: Plant, Cell and Environment, Vol. 41, Issue 8; ISSN 0140-7791

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