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The aridland shrub species, Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush) and Chrysothamnus nauseosus (rubber rabbitbrush), are distributed widely in the Intermountain region of western North America. Earlier research indicated that A. tridentata can utilize upper soil water from transient summer rain events while C. nauseosus apparently cannot, although both species have similar rooting depths. Thus, we hypothesized that C. nauseosus relies more on deep water than A. tridentata, while A. tridentata can take advantage of soil moisture in upper soil layers. We examined this hypothesis by growing A. tridentata and C. nauseosus in two-layer pots in which soil water content in the upper and lower layers was controlled independently....
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Journal Citation;
Tags: Carbon isotope composition,
Environmental and Experimental Botany,
Gas exchange,
Growth,
Nitrogen acquisition,
Leaves from several desert and woodland species, including gymnosperms and angiosperms with both C3 and C4 physiology, were analyzed to detect trends in ? 13 C leaf with elevation and slope aspect along two transects in southeastern Utah and south-central New Mexico, USA. The main difference between the two transects is the steeper elevational gradient for mean annual and summer precipitation in the southern transect. For any given species, we found that isotopic differences between individual plants growing at the same site commonly equal differences measured for plants along the entire altitudinal gradient. In C3 plants, ? 13 C leaf values become slightly enriched at the lowest elevations, the opposite of trends...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation,
Journal Citation;
Tags: C3 and C4 plants,
Oecologia,
Precipitation,
carbon isotope composition,
elevation,
Leaves from several desert and woodland species, including gymnosperms and angiosperms with both C3 and C4 physiology, were analyzed to detect trends in '13Cleaf with elevation and slope aspect along two transects in southeastern Utah and south-central New Mexico, USA. The main difference between the two transects is the steeper elevational gradient for mean annual and summer precipitation in the southern transect. For any given species, we found that isotopic differences between individual plants growing at the same site commonly equal differences measured for plants along the entire altitudinal gradient. In C3 plants, '13Cleaf values become slightly enriched at the lowest elevations, the opposite of trends identified...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation,
Journal Citation;
Tags: C3 and C4 plants,
Oecologia,
Precipitation,
carbon isotope composition,
elevation,
Leaves from several desert and woodland species, including gymnosperms and angiosperms with both C3 and C4 physiology, were analyzed to detect trends in δ 13 C leaf with elevation and slope aspect along two transects in southeastern Utah and south-central New Mexico, USA. The main difference between the two transects is the steeper elevational gradient for mean annual and summer precipitation in the southern transect. For any given species, we found that isotopic differences between individual plants growing at the same site commonly equal differences measured for plants along the entire altitudinal gradient. In C3 plants, δ 13 C leaf values become slightly enriched at the lowest elevations, the opposite of trends...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation,
Journal Citation;
Tags: C3 and C4 plants,
Oecologia,
Precipitation,
carbon isotope composition,
elevation,
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