… their relatively undisturbed timberlines, their early historical research emphasis on very young,
emergent (cotyledonous) timberline seedlings, … a strikingly marginal carbon balance in the …

… studied extensively in terms of carbon balance (Dawes et al. … Besides carbon storage,
however, plants also need to invest … large pool in coniferous trees (Hoch et al. 2003). In this study, …

… of the carbon balance in mature pines in a boreal Scots pine stand … and to continue water
uptake and maintain both supply and … pools and concentrations were relatively stable over the …

… Growth and carbon relations of tree line forming conifers at constant vs. variable low
temperatures. … Wood microsites at timberline-alpine meadow borders: Implications for conifer …

… in this region, including Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) and … and their roles in whole-plant
C dynamics. Leaves act as the … of the growing season when C uptake was highest, and then …

… carbon loss combined with relatively high belowground carbon allocation (ie, 38 % of
canopy CO 2 uptake… (NPP) and is the net carbon uptake by plants that can be used for new …

… changes in NCC measured simultaneously in all major plant tissues and how it relates to
plant phenology is troubling because NSC storage … on the relative change in concentration for …

… and starch concentrations had a relatively stable across the … reveal the carbon balance, not
just only at the organism level. … m and 1700 m, the coniferous forest zone is from 1700 m to …

… traits, growth, NSC storage and carbon allocation when saplings were transplanted to the …
that the presence of relatively lower plasticity of high-elevation populations in terms of …

… soil 20 organic carbon accumulation and the relatively high … pine forest to climate change
and the significant potential for … and is the net carbon uptake 38 of plants used for new biomass …