ArticleScientific reports2023
A longer wood growing season does not lead to higher carbon sequestration.
Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Frequency-dependent climate sensitivity of sub-daily radial growth of tree stems at the dry Arctic treeline.Tree physiology · 2026Article
- (In)determinacy in Woody Plants: Limits and Opportunities for Timing Growth in a Changing Climate.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Long-Term Cambial Phenology Reveals Diverging Growth Responses of Two Tree Species in a Mixed Forest Under Climate Change.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Xylogenesis under future climates: enhanced growth of balsam fir in a warming boreal forest.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Linking growth dynamics and intra-annual density fluctuations to late-summer precipitation in humid subtropical China.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- New York State Climate Impacts Assessment Chapter 05: Ecosystems.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Article
- Partial asynchrony of coniferous forest carbon sources and sinks at the intra-annual time scale.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Deciphering the intricate hierarchical gene regulatory network: unraveling multi-level regulation and modifications driving secondary cell wall formation.Horticulture research · 2024Article
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Abstract
A reliable assessment of forest carbon sequestration depends on our understanding of wood ecophysiology. Within a forest, trees exhibit different timings and rates of growth during wood formation. However, their relationships with wood anatomical traits remain partially unresolved. This study evaluated the intra-annual individual variability in growth traits in balsam fir [Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.]. We collected wood microcores weekly from April to October 2018 from 27 individuals in Quebec (Canada) and prepared anatomical sections to assess wood formation dynamics and their relationships with the anatomical traits of the wood cells. Xylem developed in a time window ranging from 44 to 118 days, producing between 8 and 79 cells. Trees with larger cell production experienced a longer growing season, with an earlier onset and later ending of wood formation. On average, each additional xylem cell lengthened the growing season by 1 day. Earlywood production explained 95% of the variability in xylem production. More productive individuals generated a higher proportion of earlywood and cells with larger sizes. Trees with a longer growing season produced more cells but not more biomass in the wood. Lengthening the growing season driven by climate change may not lead to enhanced carbon sequestration from wood production.
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