… In evergreen tree species, especially in the conifers of temperate and boreal climates, …
constitutes a C demand that could alter C reserve dynamics in mature trees relative to seedlings. …

… line are the timing and the plant tissue selected for sampling. … between E1 and the timberline;
E3, the timberline; and E4, … -sink limitations (C balance) in evergreen conifers at tree line …

… of shifting treelines on the ecosystem carbon balance and stocks under a warming climate.
… slopes to investigate the relationship between plant cover and soil temperature and moisture…

… use strategy have received relatively little attention compared to … in plant water uptake and
storage mechanisms is essential to … a coupled model 591 of carbon allocation and hydraulics, …

… Taken together, the role of C uptake of understory plant communities is too central to be
ignored in carbon balance … to N additions in a boreal coniferous stand. We assessed the …

… of shade-tolerant conifers were major storage tissues. … as reducing the absorption of available
N by plant roots, thereby … , growth and storage are not the only uses of carbon in plants, …

… soil water uptake and transport to the leaves. The deciduous … Some leaves of the two evergreen
conifers changed color … same stomatal responses of plants growing at higher elevations. …

… planted N-Hemisphere conifers and Australian Eucalypts do … The carbon balance hypothesis:
either carbon uptake or the … plants which is unrelated to the metabolic carbon balance, but …

… max and α of most plant species on a 2-week basis, and once a month for conifer trees. GPP
max … Near timberline vegetation started to develop after snow melt in the middle of May. First …

… ferrugineum facilitated the survival and development of pine seedlings … relatively closed N
cycle. This recycled N with low ∂N 15 values could still have been mineralized before uptake, …