Third year effects of cloudwater and ozone on red spruce seedlings

Conference · Wed May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991 · Plant Physiology, Supplement; (United States)

OSTI ID:5559334

Pier, P A; Thornton, F C; McDuffie, C Jr ^[1]

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1. Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL (United States)

The reduction in growth of high elevation red spruce in the eastern US has been attributed in part to greater exposure to atmospheric pollution which occurs at high elevation. The authors objective was to evaluate the impact of ambient ozone and cloudwater deposition on the growth of red spruce seedlings at a high elevation site. Potted native and Phyton-grown (Phyton Technologies) red spruce seedlings were exposed in open-top field chambers at Whitetop Mountain, Virginia (elevation 1,680) for the third season to treatments of: (1) exclusion of clouds and 50% reduction in ambient O{sub 3} (COE), (2) O{sub 3} with clouds excluded (CO), (3) exposure to clouds and O{sub 3}, as control chambers (CC), and (4) open plots (AA). Plant biomass components and diameter increment growth for both seedling types were not affected by treatments. Photosynthesis was not enhanced by removal of cloudwater and O{sub 3}. Respiration (R{sub d}) generally was not affected by treatments; however, R{sub d} in native seedling needles of previous year and two-year previous growth was significantly greater in CC than CO and COE on several sampling dates, indicating that cloudwater and O{sub 3} may be causing higher R{sub d}.

• OSTI ID: 5559334
• Report Number(s): CONF-9107184--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Plant Physiology, Supplement; (United States) Journal Volume: 96:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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