Significance of nutrient and carbon storage on drought sensitivity of black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) seedlings
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Abstract
Reforestation of northern Canadian forests involves the outplanting of container grown nursery seedlings. Seedling establishment following outplanting is often hampered by high mortality due to drought stress. Increasing reserves of nutrients and carbohydrates during the nursery phase could improve seedling establishment after transplanting to the field, because stored nutrients and carbon may be used to construct new root tissues, promote osmotic adjustment and repair damaged tissue. To address this hypothesis I investigated the effect of nutrient and carbon loading regimes on the drought sensitivity of Picea mariana. Nursery grown seedlings were subjected to drought preconditioning treatments, exponential nutrient loading or conventional fertilization; and carbon loading or ambient air conditions. Seedling growth following nutrient and carbon loading was enhanced in both drought and non-drought conditions. Moreover, loading resulted in an increased root: shoot ratio and osmotic adjustment in response to drought, both of which may enhance water and nutrient uptake. The results indicate that nutrient and carbon loading improve early outplanting performance of seedlings, and may benefit future reforestation programs.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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