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Oikos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urtzi Enriquez‐Urzelai ◽  
Alfredo G. Nicieza ◽  
Albert Montori ◽  
Gustavo A. Llorente ◽  
Miren Bego Urrutia

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 1706
Author(s):  
Lamprini Malea ◽  
Konstantinia Nakou ◽  
Apostolos Papadimitriou ◽  
Athanasios Exadactylos ◽  
Sotiris Orfanidis

Stuckenia pectinata, a submerged macrophyte of eutrophic to hyper-eutrophic fresh to brackish waters, faces management and climatic-forced increment of salinity and irradiance in Vistonis Lake (Greece) that may endanger its existence and the ecosystem functioning. A pre-acclimated clone under low irradiance and salinity conditions was treated to understand the effects of high salinity and irradiance on a suite of subcellular (chlorophyll a fluorescence kinetics and JIP-test, and chlorophyll content) to organismal (relative growth rate—RGR) physiological parameters. The responses to high irradiance indicated the plant’s great photo-acclimation potential to regulate the number and size of the reaction centers and the photosynthetic electron transport chain by dissipation of the excess energy to heat. A statistically significant interaction (p < 0.01) of salinity and irradiance on Chl a, b content indicated acclimation potential through adjusting the Chl a, b contents. However, no significant (p > 0.05) difference was observed on Chl a/b ratio and the RGR, indicating the species’ potential to become acclimatized by reallocating resources to compensate for growth. Thus, the regulation of photosynthetic pigment content and photosystem II performance consisted of the primary growth strategy to present and future high salinity and irradiance stressful conditions due to eutrophication management and the ongoing climatic changes.


Trees ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorma Zimmermann ◽  
Roman M. Link ◽  
Markus Hauck ◽  
Christoph Leuschner ◽  
Bernhard Schuldt

Abstract Key message By combining dendrochronological time-series analysis with radial vessel features, we show that the reconstruction of hydraulic properties improves our understanding of tree species’ acclimation potential to climate change. Abstract The vascular architecture plays a crucial role in the productivity and drought tolerance of broadleaf trees, but it is not yet fully understood how the hydraulic system is acclimating to a warmer and drier climate. Because vessel features may record temporal and spatial variability in climatic signals of the past better than tree-ring width, we combined dendrochronological time-series analysis with the calculation of stem hydraulic properties derived from radial vessel features. We aimed to reconstruct the development and sensitivity of the hydraulic system over six decades and to identify climatic control of xylem anatomy for five co-existing broad-leaved diffuse- and ring-porous tree species (genera Acer, Fagus, Fraxinus and Quercus) across three sites covering a precipitation gradient from 548 to 793 mm. We observed a significant influence of the climatic water balance (CWB) on the vessel features of all species, but the time lag, magnitude and direction of the response was highly species-specific. All diffuse-porous species suffered a decline in vessel diameter in dry years, and increase in vessel density in dry years and the year following. However, F. sylvatica was the only species with a significant long-term change in anatomical traits and a significant reduction in potential hydraulic conductivity (Kp) after dry winters and in dry summers, accompanied with the largest long-term decline in tree-ring width and the largest growth reduction in and after years with a more negative CWB. In contrast, the comparison across the precipitation gradient did not reveal any significant vessel-climate relationships. Our results revealed considerable plasticity in the hydraulic system especially of F. sylvatica, but also evidence of the drought-sensitivity of this species in accordance with earlier dendroecological and physiological studies. We conclude that the long-term reconstruction of hydraulic properties can add substantially to the understanding of the acclimation potential of different tree species to climate change.


Biology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 333
Author(s):  
Benjamin E. Deloso ◽  
Thomas E. Marler

Numerous leaf traits exhibit developmental plasticity in response to irradiance, an attribute that maximizes performance in the prevailing light. The use of leaflets to represent whole leaf traits of tree species with compound leaves is common in the acclimation literature. These methods ignore the potential for whole leaf plasticity to augment leaflet plasticity. We grew Serianthes nelsonii plants in incident light ranging from 6% to 100% of sunlight and quantified numerous leaflet and leaf traits to determine plasticity index (PI: (maximum-minimum)/maximum)) of each. Leaflet acclimation such as changes in length of palisade mesophyll occurred as expected. However, leaf-level morphometric traits such as rachillae insertion angle also exhibited acclimation potential. The leaf-level plastic behavior enabled acclimation approaches that simple-leaved species do not possess. We illuminate the need to look at the entire leaf when quantifying acclimation potential of tree leaves, and indicate that the historical use of leaflets to represent species with compound leaves under-estimated the acclimation potential when compared to species with simple leaves.


2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 101895
Author(s):  
Matthias Schmid ◽  
Pamela A. Fernández ◽  
Juan Diego Gaitán-Espitia ◽  
Patti Virtue ◽  
Pablo P. Leal ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 1288-1299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun K Bose ◽  
Barbara Moser ◽  
Andreas Rigling ◽  
Marco M. Lehmann ◽  
Alexandru Milcu ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 126386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Namba ◽  
Sumihiro Inoue ◽  
Masashi Fujita ◽  
Yuiko Noguchi ◽  
Chinatsu Hara ◽  
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