scholarly journals Drought-induced stomatal closure probably cannot explain divergent white spruce growth in the Brooks Range, Alaska, USA

Ecology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalis H. Brownlee ◽  
Patrick F. Sullivan ◽  
Adam Z. Csank ◽  
Bjartmar Sveinbjörnsson ◽  
Sarah B. Z. Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Stomatal Closure ◽  
White Spruce ◽  
Brooks Range

SCOLYTIDAE ASSOCIATED WITH FELLED WHITE SPRUCE IN ALASKA

1984 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Werner ◽  
Edward H. Holsten
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
White Spruce ◽  
Trypodendron Lineatum ◽  
Brooks Range ◽  
Kenai Peninsula ◽  
Dryocoetes Affaber ◽  
Baited Traps ◽  
Ips Perturbatus

AbstractPheromone baited traps and trap trees attracted an aggregate of 29 scolytid species associated with white spruce in three localities in Alaska. Species diversity was higher in the Fairbanks (lat. 64°45′) area than in the Brooks Range (lat. 68°15′) or Kenai Peninsula (lat. 60°37′). Scolytids were found inhabiting all bark-producing areas of the tree from the roots to small branches with the highest density in the tree bole. The most abundant scolytids were Ips perturbatus (Eichhoff), Ips tridens tridens (Mannerheim), Polygraphus rufipennis (Kirby), Dryocoetes affaber (Mannerheim), Trypodendron lineatum (Olivier), and Scolytus piceae (Swaine).

Environmental and physiological control of needle conductance for bare-root black spruce, white spruce, and jack pine seedlings on boreal cutover sites

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 943-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven C. Grossnickle ◽  
Terence J. Blake
Keyword(s):  
Pinus Banksiana ◽  
Black Spruce ◽  
Water Status ◽  
Stomatal Closure ◽  
White Spruce ◽  
Jack Pine ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Pine Seedlings ◽  
Bare Root

A study was conducted to examine the influence of environmental conditions of boreal cutover sites on plant water status and needle conductance of newly planted bare-root black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss.), and jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) seedlings. As absolute humidity deficit between the needles and air (AHD) increased, xylem pressure potentials (ψx) became most negative in black spruce, intermediate in white spruce, and least negative in jack pine seedlings. Needle conductance (gwv) was strongly related to AHD in all three species, with increasing AHD resulting in a decrease in gwv. However, at low levels of AHD, gwv values for black and white spruce seedlings were approximately 50 and 25% higher, respectively, than those for jack pine seedlings. For black and white spruce seedlings, gwv decreased as ψx became more negative, while jack pine gwv responded to more negative ψx with a threshold for stomatal closure at approximately −1.7 MPa. In all three species, increasing photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) resulted in greater gwv at all AHD levels. However, at high AHD levels, gwv, response to PAR was suppressed. The findings of this study indicate species differences in physiological response to atmospheric conditions under nonlimiting soil moisture conditions. The implications for successful reforestation are discussed.

Acclimation of cold-stored jack pine and white spruce seedlings: effect of soil temperature on water relation patterns

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 544-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven C. Grossnickle ◽  
Terence J. Blake
Keyword(s):  
Root Growth ◽  
Soil Temperature ◽  
Water Flow ◽  
Flow Resistance ◽  
Stomatal Closure ◽  
White Spruce ◽  
Jack Pine ◽  
Stomatal Opening ◽  
Pine Seedlings ◽  
Soil Temperatures

Cold-stored jack pine (Pinusbanksiana Lamb.) and white spruce (Piceaglauca (Moench) Voss) seedlings were planted in a controlled environmental chamber providing an air temperature of 22 °C and soil temperatures of 22, 16, or 10 °C. After 21 days, observation of root growth for white spruce seedlings was limited at all soil temperatures, whereas jack pine seedlings showed limited root growth at a soil temperature of 10 °C but not at 22 °C. During 21 days of observation after removal from cold storage, stomatal response patterns changed during the transition phase from darkness to first light. Jack pine seedlings showed increasing stomatal opening at first light with greater stomatal opening for seedlings in the 22 °C root-temperature treatment, while all white spruce seedlings exhibited a greater stomatal closure during darkness. In both species, seedlings at lower soil temperatures experienced greater initial water stress than seedlings at higher soil temperatures, the difference being associated with a greater water-flow resistance through the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum (SPAC). In both species, xylem pressure potentials increased with time at all temperatures; a change attributable to a decline in water-flow resistance through the SPAC. The decline in water-flow resistance was possibly due to either a change in the permeability of older suberized roots or, as in jack pine at the higher soil temperature, a significantly greater development of new unsuberized white roots.

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