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Functional Fingerprinting Estimates Renewal Opportunities For Tree Species In A Mixed Turkey Oak Forest, Éva Salamon Albert, Ágnes Csiszár, Dénes Bartha
Functional Fingerprinting Estimates Renewal Opportunities For Tree Species In A Mixed Turkey Oak Forest, Éva Salamon Albert, Ágnes Csiszár, Dénes Bartha
Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry
Maintaining and managing trees with different ecological plasticity under climate conditions aggravated by short-term variability are major challenges for foresters. Our aims were to investigate species-specific ecophysiological responses of canopy trees in a mixed Turkey oak forest during their early-phase regeneration. We measured plant carbon and water exchange with portable IRGA equipment under natural field conditions (canopy gap) and in a climate-controlled (standardized) environment. We analyzed variability and differences in plant gas exchange in relation to important abiotic site parameters and the species. Assimilation, stomatal conductance, and intrinsic water use were applied as calibrating parameters for plant functional fingerprinting to …