Claim · model-written summary
Hybrid larch was most reactive to water shortage, with intra-annual density fluctuations.
Verbatim
e0“HL saplings were the most reactive to water shortage, indicated by intra-annual density fluctuations and a decrease in relative water content of the sapwood.”
e1“Japanese and hybrid larch showed isohydric strategy.”
Title
Nadia Sasani; Luc E. Pâques; Guillaume Boulanger; et al. Trees 2021. doi:10.1007/s00468-021-02129-4
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect Across larch species, controls had higher biomass, transpiration and relative water content than drought-stressed trees.
- Intervention effect Controls had lower transpiration efficiency than drought-stressed larch trees.
- Observation Japanese larch had the highest drought transpiration efficiency.
- Observation European larch had the lowest drought transpiration efficiency, coinciding with slower growth.
- Observation European larch predrought wood had higher wall/lumen ratio.
- Observation European larch predrought wood had lower pit cavity area.
- Intervention effect European larch showed no significant drought increase in transpiration efficiency.
- Intervention effect European larch showed no drought reduction in transpiration rate.
- Mechanism European larch stomata were interpreted as remaining open under soil water deficit.
- Intervention effect Hybrid larch sapwood relative water content decreased with water shortage.
- Intervention effect Hybrid larch significantly reduced transpiration.
- Mechanism Hybrid larch transpiration reduction suggested higher stomatal sensitivity.
- Observation Hybrid larch maintained the same leaf surface area.
- Observation Hybrid larch radial growth remained similar to Japanese larch.
- Intervention effect Japanese larch had significantly lower leaf surface area under drought than controls.
- Observation European larch followed an anisohydric strategy with hydraulically safer wood.
- Observation Japanese larch showed an isohydric strategy.
- Observation Hybrid larch followed the Japanese larch isohydric strategy rather than the European strategy.