OULEHLE, Filip, Otmar URBAN, Karolina TAHOVSKÁ, Tomáš KOLÁŘ, Michal RYBNÍČEK, Ulf BÜNTGEN, Jakub HRUŠKA, Josef ČÁSLAVSKÝ and Mirek TRNKA. Calcium availability affects the intrinsic water-use efficiency of temperate forest trees. Communications Earth and Environment. Nature Publishing Group, 2023, vol. 4, No 1, p. 1-8. ISSN 2662-4435. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00822-5.
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Original name Calcium availability affects the intrinsic water-use efficiency of temperate forest trees
Authors OULEHLE, Filip (guarantor), Otmar URBAN, Karolina TAHOVSKÁ, Tomáš KOLÁŘ, Michal RYBNÍČEK, Ulf BÜNTGEN (276 Germany, belonging to the institution), Jakub HRUŠKA, Josef ČÁSLAVSKÝ and Mirek TRNKA.
Edition Communications Earth and Environment, Nature Publishing Group, 2023, 2662-4435.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 7.900 in 2022
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/23:00131120
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00822-5
UT WoS 001000883700002
Keywords in English carbon cycle; geochemistry; trees; iWUE; water cycles
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) of trees is an important component of the Earth’s coupled carbon and water cycles. The causes and consequences of long-term changes in iWUE are, however, still poorly understood due to the complex interplay between biotic and abiotic factors. Inspired by the role calcium (Ca) plays in plant transpiration, we explore possible linkages between tree ring-derived iWUE and Ca availability in five central European forest sites that were affected by acidic air pollution. We show that increasing iWUE was directly modulated by acid air pollution in conjunction with soil Ca concentration. Responses of iWUE to rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations accelerated across sites where Ca availability decreased due to soil acidity constraints, regardless of nitrogen and phosphorus availability. The observed association between soil acidity, Ca uptake, and transpiration suggests that Ca biogeochemistry has important, yet unrecognized, implications for the plant physiological upregulation of carbon and water cycles.
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