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Effects of ice storm canopy gaps on shoot architecture in young sugar maple (<i>Acer saccharum</i>)

2004· article· en· W2545315195 on OpenAlex
Lonnie W. Aarssen, Andrea E. Francq

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Bibliographic record

VenueEcoscience · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicTree Root and Stability Studies
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCanopyUnderstoryGrowing seasonAnnual growth cycle of grapevinesBiologyMapleCrown (dentistry)ShootBotanyAgronomy

Abstract

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:Crown damage to upper canopy trees during an ice storm in January 1998 in an eastern Ontario woodland increased mean canopy openness (percent open sky) to 23.6% from 8.8% in the previous growing season. The resulting effects of increased light penetration to understory vegetation were recorded for each of four size classes of young sugar maple (Acer saccharum) up to 200 cm tall. We used persistent terminal bud scale scars and leaf scars to identify leader growth, branch growth, and branching intensity (proportion of lateral axillary meristems that produced branches) in the two growing seasons prior to and following the January 1998 ice storm. Leader growth showed no differences between the two growing seasons prior to the ice storm for any of the size classes except the 25–50 cm size class, which had less growth in 1997 than in 1996. The magnitude of response in both leader growth and branching following canopy opening increased with increasing plant size, presumably reflecting the superior position of larger saplings to intercept light (compared with smaller saplings still shaded by the larger saplings). In larger saplings (100–200 cm tall), the effect of canopy opening involved a sequential two-stage response: increased leader growth only in the first growing season, with increased branching delayed until the subsequent year. This pattern of response to canopy gaps in sugar maple saplings may represent a strategy of meristem deployment that approaches an optimal compromise between racing vertically to the canopy and branching laterally to intercept light along the way.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.502
Threshold uncertainty score0.954

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.197
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it