文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：No Ontogenetic Shifts in C-, N- and P-Allocation for Two Distinct Tree Species along Elevational Gradients in the Swiss Alps

作者：Liu, Jian-Feng[1,2] Jiang, Ze-Ping[1,3] Schaub, Marcus[2,4] Gessler, Arthur[2,4] Ni, Yan-Yan[3] Xiao, Wen-Fa[3] Li, Mai-He[2,4,5]

第一作者：Liu, Jian-Feng;刘建锋

通信作者：Li, MH[1];Li, MH[2];Li, MH[3]

机构：[1]Chinese Acad Forestry, Res Inst Forestry, Key Lab Tree Breeding & Cultivat State Forestry A, Beijing 100091, Peoples R China;[2]Swiss Fed Res Inst WSL, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland;[3]Chinese Acad Forestry, Res Inst Forest Ecol Environm & Protect, Beijing 100091, Peoples R China;[4]SwissForestLab, Zuercherstr 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland;[5]Northeast Normal Univ, Sch Geog Sci, Changchun 130024, Jilin, Peoples R China

年份：2019

卷号：10

期号：5

外文期刊名：FORESTS

收录：;EI(收录号：20192206992943);Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85066240496);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000478814700033)】；

基金：This research was funded by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Non-Profit Research Institution of CAF (CAFYBB2014ZD001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41371076 and 41371075), and the China Scholarship Council (No. 201303270003).

语种：英文

外文关键词：altitude; non-structural carbohydrates; nutrients; ontogeny; Pinus cembra L; Larix decidua Mill

摘要：Most of our knowledge about forest responses to global environmental changes is based on experiments with seedlings/saplings grown in artificially controlled conditions. We do not know whether this knowledge will allow us to upscale to larger and mature trees growing in situ. In the present study, we used elevation as a proxy of various environmental factors, to examine whether there are ontogenetic differences in carbon and nutrient allocation of two major treeline species (Pinus cembra L. and Larix decidua Mill.) along elevational gradients (i.e., environmental gradient) in the Swiss alpine treeline ecotone (similar to 300 m interval). Young and adult trees grown at the same elevation had similar levels of non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs), total nitrogen (TN), and phosphorus (TP), except for August leaf sugars and August leaf TP in P. cembra at the treeline. We did not detect any interaction between tree age and elevation on tissue concentration of NSCs, TN, and TP across leaf, shoot, and root tissues for both species, indicating that saplings and mature trees did not differ in their carbon and nutrient responses to elevation (i.e., no ontogenetic differences). With respect to carbon and nutrient allocation strategies, our results show that young and adult trees of both deciduous and evergreen tree species respond similarly to environmental changes, suggesting that knowledge gained from controlled experiments with saplings can be upscaled to adult trees, at least if the light is not limited. This finding advances our understanding of plants' adaptation strategies and has considerable implications for future model-developments.