Assimilation Efficiencies and Gas Exchange Responses of Four Salix Species in Elevated CO2 under Soil Moisture Stress and Fertilization Treatments
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Abstract
Assimilation to the internal CO2 (ACi) response curve and gas exchange parameters were quantified for four North American willows ((Salix cordata (COR), S. discolor (DIS), S. eriocephala (ERI), and S. interior (INT)) grown in a 2 × 2 factorial of atmospheric CO2 and soil moisture treatments to see how they would respond to climate change factors. After the first year of greenhouse growth under said treatments, we saw no difference in the aboveground stem biomass between CO2 treatments. Thus, in the second year, a second experiment on a subset of well-watered, coppiced willows was conducted in a 2 × 2 factorial of atmospheric CO2 and soil fertilization (FERT) treatments. In both experiments, the maximum rate of carboxylation (Vcmax) significantly declined for all four species in response to elevated CO2 (eCO2). In response to a drought treatment (DRT), Vcmax declined, except for INT, which increased Vcmax. In both experiments, INT had the greatest Vcmax, maximum rate of electron transport (Jmax), and triose phosphate utilization, followed by COR and ERI, with DIS having the lowest values. FERT resulted in a strong increase in assimilation (A) and stomatal conductance (Gwv) by 92 and 119%, respectively. Gwv is the primary driver and A is a minor driver of water use efficiency (WUE) under DRT. FERT mitigated the Vcmax and A downregulation in eCO2, but eCO2 did not mitigate the DRT downregulation effect. Differences between INT and the other three willows in a number of adaptive traits and responses related to drought may reflect the evolutionary origins of INT and the taxonomic group Longifoliae in the arid southwest USA and Mexico.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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