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A Lifespan Perspective on Integrating Structure and Function in Trees

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Abstract

Trees are spectacular organisms that can accumulate a large amount of biomass, live for millennia, grow in stressful environments, and have global importance to organisms and human society as a result of their roles in contributing to diverse ecosystem services. They survive in an enormous range of environments with disturbances of various frequencies and severities, and by their very nature of being long-lived and sessile, they must possess the ability to change. This chapter provides a context for the chapters that follow, by describing a history of the investigations and of several important technological innovations that have enabled research to progress, and some of the foundations of water relations which underpin many of the later chapters. The chapter then discusses seven recurrent themes brought out by the diverse chapter authors: microclimate and other abiotic forces that change with tree and stand age; the changing structure and function employed as trees grow; what we can learn from scaling —which scaling laws pertain, when, and what is the biology or physics embedded in these laws; the tradeoffs that occur as structures and functions change through growth and development; the causes and correlates of the decline in productivity of trees and stands with age; the extent to which changes are plastic; and the meaning of whether changes occur relative to age versus size. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the emerging issues and questions raised in the chapters of this book. The overall aim is to give insights into the whole tree, whole lifespan perspective of the structural and functional strategies trees employ to persist in the face of internal and external factors that change as trees grow and age. This knowledge can be used to develop management approaches to manipulate trees and stands to provide a wide range of ecosystem goods and services.

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A special thanks to Dr. Andrea Woodward, USGS Research Scientist, Seattle, Washington for providing unpublished data for us to use in this chapter. Funding provided by the David RM Scott Professorship.

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  4. Departments of Integrative Biology & Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

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Hinckley, T.M., Lachenbruch, B., Meinzer, F.C., Dawson, T.E. (2011). A Lifespan Perspective on Integrating Structure and Function in Trees. In: Meinzer, F., Lachenbruch, B., Dawson, T. (eds) Size- and Age-Related Changes in Tree Structure and Function. Tree Physiology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1242-3_1

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