Claim · model-written summary
In the tolerant clone, ozone reduced growth by 1–38% in larger trees, a significant difference in stem volume.
- Taxon
- Betula pendula
Betula pendulae0 - Material
- tolerant clonee3
- Treatment
- 1.4-1.7 x ambient (elevated) ozonee2
- Outcome
- growthe3
- Direction
- reducede3
- Value
- 1-38%e3
- Comparator
- ambient ozone (control)e2
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Verbatim
e0“European white birch (Betula pendula Roth)”
e2“under ambient ozone (control) and 1.4-1.7 x ambient (elevated) ozone”
e3“In the tolerant clone, growth of these larger trees was reduced by 1-38% (significant difference in stem volume), although the saplings had previously been unaffected”
Title
Responses of selected birch (Betula pendula Roth) clones to ozone change over time
E. OKSANEN Plant Cell & Environment 2003. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3040.2003.01020.x
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect In the sensitive clone, ozone reduced growth by 12–48% after 6 years of exposure, a significant difference.
- Observation Saplings of the tolerant clone were previously unaffected by ozone in growth.
- Intervention effect Ozone stress significantly reduced leaf-level net photosynthesis in both clones during the late summer.
- Intervention effect Ozone stress significantly increased stomatal conductance rates in both clones during the late summer.
- Intervention effect Ozone stress led to a lower carbon gain for bud formation.
- Observation Ozone stress led to the onset of visible foliar injuries.
- Mechanism Increasing ozone sensitivity with exposure duration is explained by a change in growth form.
- Mechanism Increasing ozone sensitivity with exposure duration is explained by a lower photosynthesis to stomatal conductance ratio in late summer.
- Mechanism Increasing ozone sensitivity with exposure duration is explained by deleterious carry-over effects from fewer over-wintering buds.