Long treering chronologies reveal 20th century increases in wateruse efficiency but no enhancement of tree growth at five Iberian pine forests

L ANDREU‐HAYLES, O Planells… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
tree ring, where the latter was found to be generally enriched in 13 C when compared with
the former (Helle & Schleser, 2004). Furthermore, the use of cellulose from tree ringstree-ring

Stable carbon isotopes in tree rings indicate improved water use efficiency and drought responses of a tropical dry forest tree species

RJW Brienen, W Wanek, P Hietz - Trees, 2011 - Springer
tree ring δ 13 C, we calculated intrinsic water use efficiency (W i ) and intercellular [CO 2 ] (c
i ). Our results showed that trees … that δ 13 C in tree rings of tropical dry forest trees may be a …

Changes of treering δ13C and wateruse efficiency of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in north‐eastern France during the past century

A Duquesnay, N Bréda, M Stievenard… - Plant, Cell & …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
… To avoid any effect of long-term environmental changes, we chose tree rings formed
between 1965 and 1974 but by trees of different cambial ages (the age of the tree when the ring

Comparison of seasonal variations in wateruse efficiency calculated from the carbon isotope composition of tree rings and flux data in a temperate forest

A Michelot, T Eglin, E Dufrene… - Plant, cell & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Treering δ 13 C is often interpreted in terms of intrinsic wateruse efficiency (WUE) using a
… We examined whether intra‐ring δ 13 C could be used to assess variations in intrinsic WUE …

Drought impacts on tree carbon sequestration and water use–evidence from intra‐annual treering characteristics

E Martínez‐Sancho, K Treydte, MM Lehmann… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
ring width by using percentage of the ring width as a predictor. The space-for-time conversion
could then be performed because we knew the exact position of the cell within the tree ring

Elevated CO2 increases tree‐level intrinsic water use efficiency: insights from carbon and oxygen isotope analyses in tree rings across three forest FACE sites

G Battipaglia, M Saurer, P Cherubini… - New …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
water use efficiency (WUE i ) of forests, but the magnitude of this effect and its interaction with
climate is still poorly understood. We combined tree ring … entire life of the trees. We used δ …

Strong overestimation of wateruse efficiency responses to rising CO2 in treering studies

W Marchand, MP Girardin, H Hartmann… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… The carbon isotope ratio (δ 13 C) in tree rings is commonly used to derive estimates of
the assimilation-to-stomatal conductance rate of trees, that is, intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE)…

20th century changes in carbon isotopes and water-use efficiency: tree-ring-based evaluation of the CLM4. 5 and LPX-Bern models

KM Keller, S Lienert, A Bozbiyik, TF Stocker… - …, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
… Measurements of the stable carbon isotope ratio (δ13C) on annual tree rings offer new …
assimilation to stomatal conductance, termed intrinsic wateruse efficiency (iWUE). We performed …

Spatial and temporal variations in plant water-use efficiency inferred from tree-ring, eddy covariance and atmospheric observations

SC Dekker, M Groenendijk, BBB Booth… - Earth System …, 2016 - esd.copernicus.org
water-use efficiency (WUE), which is the ratio of the uptake of carbon dioxide through photosynthesis
to the loss of water … We have used 13C measurements from tree rings, along with …

Stable isotopes in tree rings

D McCarroll, NJ Loader - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
… each annual tree ring has its origin in the CO 2 of air, and O and H come from soil water and
… exchange with xylem water, which will push δD of tree rings back towards that of the source …