Claim · model-written summary
Higher temperature increased stem height by 8.5% per degree C.
- Taxon
- European beech
Fagus sylvaticat0 - Treatment
- temperaturee2
- Outcome
- stemse0
- Direction
- tallere0
- Value
- 8.5%e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“stems were taller (Delta1 degrees C: 8.5%)”
t0“European beech”
e2“stem diameter was significantly greater at increased temperature (Delta1 degrees C: 2.4%)”
Title
D. Overdieck; D. Ziche; K. Bottcher-Jungclaus Tree Physiology 2007. doi:10.1093/treephys/27.2.261
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Higher temperature increased stem diameter by 2.4% per degree C.
- Intervention effect Higher temperature increased stem mass per tree by 10.9% per degree C.
- Intervention effect Higher temperature increased leaf area per tree by 6.5% per degree C.
- Intervention effect Increasing temperature decreased leaf mass ratio by 2.3% per degree C.
- Intervention effect Increasing temperature decreased leaf area ratio by 2.2% per degree C.
- Intervention effect Increasing temperature increased stem mass relative to total mass by 2.1% per degree C.
- Intervention effect Elevated carbon dioxide enhanced height growth by 8.8%.
- Intervention effect Elevated carbon dioxide decreased coarse root mass relative to total mass by 10.3%.
- Intervention effect Elevated carbon dioxide decreased root to shoot ratio by 11.7%.
- Observation Additional carbon was mainly invested in aboveground growth.
- Intervention effect With elevated carbon dioxide, trees were 3.2% taller at minus 4 degrees C than under ambient carbon dioxide.
- Intervention effect With elevated carbon dioxide, trees were 12.7% taller at plus 4 degrees C than under ambient carbon dioxide.
- Intervention effect After 2.5 seasons, oldest stem cross-sectional area was about 32% greater at plus 4 versus minus 4 degrees C.
- Intervention effect Leaf area per unit tree-ring area was about 67% greater at the highest versus lowest temperature.
- Intervention effect Elevated carbon dioxide decreased mean area of the largest vessels by 5.8%.
- Mechanism Reduced vessel area decreased water conducting capacity.
- Intervention effect Relative vessel area was about 38% higher at plus 4 than minus 4 degrees C under elevated carbon dioxide compared with ambient carbon dioxide.
- Observation Temperature had a greater effect on growth than carbon dioxide.
- Intervention effect Elevated carbon dioxide caused quantitative changes in wood anatomy.