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Components of woody-tissue respiration in young Abies amabilis (Dougl.) Forbes trees

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Woody-tissue respiration was measured on five different dates at three to five locations on each of 12 30-year-old Abies amabilis trees. On any given date, temperature-corrected respiration per unit surface area varied 10 to 40-fold between sampling locations. In stems, the two major components of respiration were growth respiration and sapwood maintenance respiration, which were of roughly equal importance during the growing season. There was no evidence of significant cambial maintenance respiration, suggesting that a stand with high bole surface area would not automatically have high respiration. Respiration in branches was much greater than in boles of comparable volume and growth rates, and was significantly correlated with branch height. Branch respiration may include an another significant component in addition to the two seen in bole respiration, possibly associated with carbohydrate mobilization and transport or with CO2 efflux from the transpiration stream.

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Sprugel, D.G. Components of woody-tissue respiration in young Abies amabilis (Dougl.) Forbes trees. Trees 4, 88–98 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00226071

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