{"id":1781,"date":"2016-06-08T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/afs\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2016-06-09T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T08:56:08","slug":"increased-water-use-efficiency-does-not-prevent-growth-decline-of-pinus-canariensis-in-a-semi-arid-treeline-ecotone-in-tenerife-canary-islands-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2016\/06\/08\/increased-water-use-efficiency-does-not-prevent-growth-decline-of-pinus-canariensis-in-a-semi-arid-treeline-ecotone-in-tenerife-canary-islands-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased water use efficiency does not prevent growth decline of Pinus canariensis in a semi-arid treeline ecotone in Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p id=\"Par1\" class=\"Para\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong class=\"EmphasisTypeBold \">Intrinsic water use efficiency of<\/strong> <em><strong class=\"EmphasisTypeBoldItalic \">Pinus canariensis<\/strong><\/em> <strong class=\"EmphasisTypeBold \">(Sweet<\/strong> <em><strong class=\"EmphasisTypeBoldItalic \">ex<\/strong><\/em> <strong class=\"EmphasisTypeBold \">Spreng.) growing at a semi-arid treeline has increased during the past 37\u00a0years. Tree ring width by contrast has declined, likely caused by reduced stomatal conductance due to increasing aridity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page-wrapper\">\n<article>\n<div class=\"article-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"article-body__content\">\n<div class=\"FulltextWrapper\">\n<section id=\"Abs1\" class=\"Abstract\" lang=\"en\">\n<div id=\"ASec2\" class=\"AbstractSection\">\n<h3 class=\"Heading\"><em><strong class=\"EmphasisTypeBoldItalic \">Abstract<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p id=\"Par6\" class=\"Para\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Rising atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub> concentration (<em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">C<\/em><sub><em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">a<\/em><\/sub>) has been related to tree growth enhancement accompanied by increasing intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE). Nevertheless, the extent of rising <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">C<\/em><sub><em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">a<\/em> <\/sub> on long-term changes in iWUE and growth has remained poorly understood to date in Mediterranean treeline ecosystems. This study aimed to examine radial growth and physiological responses of <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">P. canariensis<\/em> in relation to rising <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">C<\/em><sub><em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">a<\/em> <\/sub> and increasing aridity at treeline in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. We evaluated temporal changes in secondary growth (tree ring width; TRW) and tree ring stable C isotope signature for assessing iWUE from 1975 through 2011. Precipitation was the main factor controlling secondary growth. Over the last 36\u00a0years <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">P. canariensis<\/em> showed a decline in TRW at enhanced iWUE, likely caused by reduced stomatal conductance due to increasing aridity. Our results indicate that increasing aridity has overridden the potential CO<sub>2<\/sub> fertilization on tree growth of <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">P. canariensis<\/em> at its upper distribution limit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13595-016-0562-5'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13595-016-0562-5\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full paper<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Publication<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Brito P, Grams TEE, Matysssek R, Jimenez MS, Gonzalez-Rodr\u00edguez AM, Oberhuber W, Wieser G 2016.<\/strong> Increased water use efficiency does not prevent growth decline of <em>Pinus canariensis<\/em> in a semi-arid treeline ecotone in Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain). Ann. For. Sci.: 1-9. 10.1007\/s13595-016-0562-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intrinsic water use efficiency of Pinus canariensis (Sweet ex Spreng.) growing at a semi-arid treeline has increased during the past 37\u00a0years. Tree ring width by contrast has declined, likely caused by reduced stomatal conductance due to increasing aridity. Abstract Rising atmospheric CO2 concentration (Ca) has been related to tree growth enhancement accompanied by increasing intrinsic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}