Tree water uptake enhances nitrogen acquisition in a fertilized boreal forest but not under nitrogen-poor conditions

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Result on the web

<a href="https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17578" target="_blank" >https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17578</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.17578" target="_blank" >10.1111/nph.17578</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tree water uptake enhances nitrogen acquisition in a fertilized boreal forest but not under nitrogen-poor conditions

Original language description

Understanding how plant water uptake interacts with acquisition of soil nitrogen (N) and other nutrients is fundamental for predicting plant responses to a changing environment, but it is an area where models disagree. We present a novel isotopic labelling approach which reveals spatial patterns of water and N uptake, and their interaction, by trees. The stable isotopes N-15 and H-2 were applied to a small area of the forest floor in stands with high and low soil N availability. Uptake by surrounding trees was measured. The sensitivity of N acquisition to water uptake was quantified by statistical modelling. Trees in the high-N stand acquired twice as much N-15 as in the low-N stand and around half of their N uptake was dependent on water uptake (H-2 enrichment). By contrast, in the low-N stand there was no positive effect of water uptake on N uptake. We conclude that tree N acquisition was only marginally dependent on water flux toward the root surface under low-N conditions whereas under high-N conditions, the water-associated N uptake was substantial. The results suggest a fundamental shift in N acquisition strategy under high-N conditions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

New Phytologist

ISSN

0028-646X

e-ISSN

1469-8137

Volume of the periodical

232

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

113-122

UT code for WoS article

000675530300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85110986635