Mistletoe-induced carbon, water and nutrient imbalances are imprinted on tree rings.

IF 3.5 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Tree physiology Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI:10.1093/treephys/tpae106
Ester González de Andrés, Antonio Gazol, José Ignacio Querejeta, Michele Colangelo, J Julio Camarero
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Mistletoes are xylem-tapping hemiparasites that rely on their hosts for water and nutrient uptake. Thus, they impair tree performance in the face of environmental stress via altering the carbon and water relations and nutritional status of trees. To improve our understanding of physiological responses to mistletoe and ongoing climate change, we investigated radial growth, stable carbon and oxygen isotopic signals, and elemental composition of tree rings in silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests infested with Viscum album L. We compared temporal series (1990-2020) of basal area increment (BAI), intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE), oxygen isotope composition (δ18O), nutrient concentrations and stoichiometric ratios between non-infested (NI) and severely infested (SI) fir and pine trees from populations located close to the xeric distribution limit of the species in north-eastern Spain. The SI trees showed historically higher growth, but the BAI trend was negative for more than three decades before 2020 and their growth rates became significantly lower than those of NI trees by the mid-2010s. Mistletoe infestation was related to an enhanced sensitivity of radial growth to vapour pressure deficit (atmospheric drought). The SI trees showed less pronounced iWUE increases (fir) and lower iWUE values (pine) than NI trees. The lower tree-ring δ18O values of SI trees may be the result of several superimposed effects operating simultaneously, including leaf-level evaporative enrichment, source water isotopic signals, and anatomical and phenological differences. We observed a deterioration of potassium (K) nutrition in tree-ring wood of both species in SI trees, along with accumulation of manganese (Mn). We suggest that such nutritional patterns are driven by the indirect effect of mistletoe-induced drought stress, particularly in pine. The combined analyses of different physiological indicators imprinted on tree rings provided evidence of the progressive onset of carbon, water and nutrient imbalances in mistletoe-infested conifers inhabiting seasonally dry regions.

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槲寄生引起的碳、水和养分失衡在树木年轮上留下了印记。
槲寄生是一种木质部吸水半寄生虫,依靠寄主吸收水分和养分。因此,它们会通过改变树木的碳、水关系和营养状况来损害树木在环境压力下的表现。为了提高我们对槲寄生和持续气候变化的生理反应的认识,我们研究了银冷杉(Abies alba)和苏格兰松(Pinus sylvestris)森林中被槲寄生侵染的树木年轮的径向生长、稳定的 C 和 O 同位素信号以及元素组成。我们比较了未受侵染(NI)和严重受侵染(SI)的冷杉和松树的基部面积增量(BAI)、内在水分利用效率(iWUE)、氧同位素组成(δ18O)以及养分浓度和化学计量比的时间序列(1990-2020 年),这些树木的种群位于西班牙东北部靠近该物种干旱分布极限的地区。SI 树历来生长速度较快,但在 2020 年之前的三十多年里 BAI 呈负增长趋势,到 2010 年代中期,其生长速度明显低于 NI 树。槲寄生侵扰与径向生长对蒸汽压力不足(大气干旱)的敏感性增强有关。与 NI 树木相比,SI 树木的 iWUE 增长(杉木)不太明显,iWUE 值(松树)较低。SI树较低的树环δ18O值可能是多种叠加效应同时作用的结果,其中包括叶层蒸发富集、源水同位素信号以及解剖学和物候学差异。我们观察到,在 SI 树的两种树种的树环木材中,钾(K)的营养都在恶化,同时锰(Mn)也在积累。我们认为,这种营养模式是由槲树引起的干旱胁迫的间接影响造成的,尤其是在松树中。通过对印刻在树木年轮上的不同生理指标进行综合分析,可以证明在季节性干旱地区,受槲树侵袭的针叶树逐渐出现碳、水和营养失衡。
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Tree physiology
Tree physiology 农林科学-林学
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期刊介绍: Tree Physiology promotes research in a framework of hierarchically organized systems, measuring insight by the ability to link adjacent layers: thus, investigated tree physiology phenomenon should seek mechanistic explanation in finer-scale phenomena as well as seek significance in larger scale phenomena (Passioura 1979). A phenomenon not linked downscale is merely descriptive; an observation not linked upscale, might be trivial. Physiologists often refer qualitatively to processes at finer or coarser scale than the scale of their observation, and studies formally directed at three, or even two adjacent scales are rare. To emphasize the importance of relating mechanisms to coarser scale function, Tree Physiology will highlight papers doing so particularly well as feature papers.
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