Natural root grafting in hybrid poplar clonesTrees - - 2020
Diary Tenompitia Gaspard, Annie DesRochers
Root grafting occurs in 15-year-old hybrid poplar clones; and tree proximity, tree and root sizes are key factors enhancing its frequency. Root grafting in trees is a well-recognized phenomenon allowing nutrient and photosynthate redistribution between connected trees. This study assessed the influence of tree spacing on root graft formation in a 15-year-old hybrid poplar plantation with two clone...... hiện toàn bộ
Drought sensitivity of three co-occurring conifers within a dry inner Alpine environmentTrees - Tập 27 - Trang 61-69 - 2012
Roman Schuster, Walter Oberhuber
We applied dendroclimatological techniques to determine long-term stationarity of climate–growth relationships and recent growth trends of three widespread coniferous tree species of the central Austrian Alps, which grow intermixed at dry mesic sites within a dry inner Alpine environment (750 m asl). Time series of annual increments were developed from >120 mature trees of Picea abies, Larix decid...... hiện toàn bộ
Diurnal changes in branch diameter as indicator of water status of Hinoki cypress Chamaecyparis obtusaTrees - Tập 15 - Trang 315-318 - 2001
Masafumi Ueda, Ei'ichi Shibata
We investigated use of strain gauges for monitoring the water status of trees by measuring changes in the diameter of the largest spreading branch of a 27-year-old Chamaecyparis obtusa tree. The change in xylem diameter in the branch is more closely related than the change in phloem diameter to the change in leaf water potential. Since the diurnal changes in diameter match the diurnal changes in ...... hiện toàn bộ
Intra-annual stem radial increment patterns of Chinese pine, Helan Mountains, Northern Central ChinaTrees - Tập 33 - Trang 751-763 - 2019
Jiani Gao, Bao Yang, Minhui He, Vladimir Shishov
We investigate the intra-annual growth patterns of Chinese pine in Helan Mountains, confirming that regional water status plays a dominated role in stem radial increment. The associations between environmental conditions and stem radial increment (SRI) are useful for assessing a species’ growth response to climate change. Intra-annual SRI dynamics of Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis) were monitor...... hiện toàn bộ
Xylem anatomical traits related to resinous heartwood formation in Pinus canariensis Sm.Trees - Tập 12 - Trang 139-145 - 1998
José Climent, Luis Gil, José Alberto Pardos
Resinous heartwood (lightwood) is an important feature in Pinus canariensis (Canary Island pine), as this wood has very good mechanical and aesthetic characteristics. In order to determine anatomical traits related to lightwood formation, structure of axial resin canals, xylem cell connections and cell contents were studied on wood samples from sites with different environments. Specimens consist...... hiện toàn bộ
Spring precipitation effects on formation of first row of earlywood vessels in Quercus variabilis at Qinling Mountain (China)Trees - Tập 33 - Trang 457-468 - 2018
Yiping Zhang, Junliang Xu, Wei Su, Xiping Zhao, Xiaoli Xu
Under drier spring conditions, Q. variabilis might slow the FEV growth rate but will not produce narrower FEVs. FEV size might be a trade-off between hydraulic efficiency and hydraulic safety. Wood anatomical features can encode tree reactions to fluctuating environmental conditions. The first row of earlywood vessels (FEV) has proven to be very promising with respect to the inter-annual climate v...... hiện toàn bộ
Development of biomass proportions in Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.)Trees - Tập 20 - Trang 111-121 - 2005
Anu Kantola, Annikki Mäkelä
This study tests the hypotheses that (1) the above-ground structure of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L] Karst.) is derivable from the functional balance theory, and that (2) crown ratio is a key source of structural variation in trees of different age and social position. Twenty-nine trees were measured in three stands (young, middle-aged, and mature), with three thinning treatments (unthinned, norm...... hiện toàn bộ