Photosynthetic responses to temperature of two tropical rainforest tree species from Costa Rica
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| Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2013 |
| Descripción: | Annual mean temperature increases will cause alterations in many ecosystem processes, which affect plants given their physiological sensitivity to temperature. That is closely related with plant growing conditions, genotype and plasticity. We studied the photosynthetic responses to instantaneous temperature changes and functional leaf traits in two tropical tree species associated with different successional positions, Zygia longifolia (early successional) and Dipteryx oleifera (late successional), in the northern lowlands of Costa Rica. As a whole, we found two different strategies to avoid temperature stress: one reducing WUE (Z. longifolia), and the other one increasing metabolic rates (D. oleifera). However, the ability to withstand stressful situations may, in a larger context, negatively affect ecosystem water and carbon fluxes. Also, functional plasticity in response to temperature changes may relatively affect the ecosystem by causing long-term variations in their representation within the complex diversity mosaic of their forest habitats. |
| País: | Repositorio UNA |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio UNA |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:null:11056/21430 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00468-013-0874-0 http://hdl.handle.net/11056/21430 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-013-0874-0 |
| Palabra clave: | COSTA RICA BOSQUE TROPICAL HÚMEDO CRECIMIENTO DE LAS PLANTAS ECOSISTEMAS TEMPERATURA TROPICAL RAINFOREST PLANT GROWTH ECOSYSTEMS TEMPERATURE |