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Canopy transpiration in two Japanese cypress forests with contrasting structures

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Canopy transpiration (E C) varies among forest stands with different structures. To evaluate different E C for Japanese cypress we observed E C for 5 months, by use of the sap flow technique, in two adjacent stands of different ages with contrasting structures. Mean diameter at breast height was 13.5 and 44.6 cm and stem density was 2100 and 350 trees ha−1 for the Sakuta and Hiwada plots, respectively. Mean E C measured was 1.3 mm day−1 for the Sakuta plot and 0.7 mm day−1 for the Hiwada plot (or 53 % of that for the Sakuta plot). This difference between E C was caused by differences between both mean stand sap flux density (J S) and stand sapwood area (A S__stand): J S for the Hiwada plot was 69 % of that for the Sakuta plot and A S_stand for the Hiwada plot was 75 % of that for the Sakuta plot. The difference between J S was primarily caused by different reference J S for given meteorological conditions, not by the different response of J S to meteorological conditions. Previous studies of coniferous plantation forests in Japan reported that differences between E C among stands with different structures were mainly caused by different A S_stand. This study revealed this is not always true, and that differences between J S should also be considered when predicting differences between E C among stands with different structures.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to members of the Laboratory of Ecohydrology (Kyushu University) and Dr Natsuko Yoshihuji (Kyoto University), for assistance with field measurements, and to three anonymous reviewers for providing critical comments. This work was supported by the Global COE Program (Center of Excellence for Asian Conservation Ecology as a Basis of Human-nature Mutualism), MEXT, Japan, the “Institutional Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits” from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the CREST (Core Research for Environmental Science and Technology) program of “Development of Innovative Technologies for Increasing in Watershed Runoff and Improving River Environment by the Management Practice of Devastated Forest Plantation”, and the Fund of Fukuoka Prefecture Forest for Water Resources.

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  1. Laboratory of Forest Hydrology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawaoiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

    Kenji Tsuruta

  2. The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawaoiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Hikaru Komatsu

  3. School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road., Taipei, 10617, Taiwan

    Tomonori Kume

  4. Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 6-10-1, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan

    Yoshinori Shinohara

  5. Kasuya Research Forest, Kyushu University, 394 Tsubakuro, Sasaguri, Fukuoka, 811-2415, Japan

    Kyoichi Otsuki

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Tsuruta, K., Komatsu, H., Kume, T. et al. Canopy transpiration in two Japanese cypress forests with contrasting structures. J For Res 20, 464–474 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10310-015-0495-0

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