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Title: | Free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) enhances biomass production in a short-rotation poplar plantation | Authors: | Calfapietra, C. GIELEN, Birgit Galema, A.N.J. Lukac, M. de Angelis, P. Moscatelli, M.C. Ceulemans, R. Scarascia-Mugnozza, G. |
Issue Date: | 2003 | Publisher: | HERON PUBLISHING | Source: | Tree physiology, 23(12). p. 805-814 | Abstract: | This paper investigates the possible contribution of Short Rotation Cultures (SRC) to carbon sequestration in both current and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations ([CO2]). A dense poplar plantation (1 × 1 m) was exposed to a [CO2] of 550 ppm in Central Italy using the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) technique. Three species of Populus were examined, namely P. alba L., P. nigra L. and P. × euramericana Dode (Guinier). Aboveground woody biomass of trees exposed to elevated [CO2] for three growing seasons increased by 15 to 27%, depending on species. As a result, light-use efficiency increased. Aboveground biomass allocation was unaffected, and belowground biomass also increased under elevated [CO2] conditions, by 22 to 38%. Populus nigra, with total biomass equal to 62.02 and 72.03 Mg ha–1 in ambient and elevated [CO2], respectively, was the most productive species, although its productivity was stimulated least by atmospheric CO2 enrichment. There was greater depletion of inorganic nitrogen from the soil after three growing seasons in elevated [CO2], but no effect of [CO2] on stem wood density, which differed significantly only among species. | Keywords: | elevated CO2, light-use efficiency, POPFACE, Populus, root/shoot ratio, SRC, wood density | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/4653 | Link to publication/dataset: | http://heronpublishing.com/tree/summaries/volume23/a23-805.html | ISSN: | 0829-318X | e-ISSN: | 1758-4469 | ISI #: | 000184880200002 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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