ArticleThe New phytologist2022
Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers.
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- Embolism resistance supports the contribution of dry-season precipitation to transpiration in eastern Amazon forests.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Field plants strategically regulate water uptake from different soil depths by spatiotemporally adjusting their radial root hydraulic conductivity.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Contrasting the soil-plant hydraulics of beech and spruce by linking root water uptake to transpiration dynamics.Tree physiology · 2025Article
- Fine root morphological characteristics and biomass distribution characteristics of different artificial forests in coastal salt land and their influencing factors.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Coordination between water source partitioning and isohydric-anisohydric behavior shapes contrasting water use strategies ofFrontiers in plant science · 2025Article
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- The mobilization and transport of newly fixed carbon are driven by plant water use in an experimental rainforest under drought.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
- Declining Radial Growth in Major Western Carpathian Tree Species: Insights from Three Decades of Temperate Forest Monitoring.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Deep roots mitigate drought impacts on tropical trees despite limited quantitative contribution to transpiration.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Soil-plant interactions modulated water availability of Swiss forests during the 2015 and 2018 droughts.Global change biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The intensity and frequency of droughts events are projected to increase in future with expected adverse effects for forests. Thus, information on the dynamics of tree water uptake from different soil layers during and after drought is crucial. We applied an in situ water isotopologue monitoring system to determine the oxygen isotope composition in soil and xylem water of European beech with a 2-h resolution together with measurements of soil water content, transpiration and tree water deficit. Using a Bayesian isotope mixing model, we inferred the relative and absolute contribution of water from four different soil layers to tree water use. Beech took up more than 50% of its water from the uppermost 5 cm soil layer at the beginning of the 2018 drought, but then reduced absolute water uptake from the drying topsoil by 84%. The trees were not able to quantitatively compensate for restricted topsoil water availability by additional uptake from deeper soil layers, which is related to the fine root depth distribution. Absolute water uptake from the topsoil was restored to pre-drought levels within 3 wk after rewetting. These uptake patterns help to explain both the drought sensitivity of beech and its high recovery potential after drought release.
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