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- Title
Seasonal variation in oxygen isotope composition of waters for a montane larch forest in Mongolia.
- Authors
Sheng-Gong Li; Maki Tsujimura; Atsuko Sugimoto; Lisa Sasaki; Tsutomu Yamanaka; Gombo Davaa; Dambaravjaa Oyunbaatar; Michiaki Sugita
- Abstract
Measurements of water oxygen isotopic composition were conducted in the 2003 growing season for a montane larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) forest in northern Mongolia, a transitional area from the south Siberian taiga to the Asian steppe. Oxygen isotopic composition of foliar water and its daily variability were found to be sensitive to atmospheric evaporative demand. During most of the growing season, water sources used by larch trees were from the upper 30-cm surface layer of the soil when precipitation input was large, and were from the deeper layer when the water supply at the upper soil layer was limited. The Keeling plot method suggested that the forest returned soil water to the atmosphere predominantly by means of canopy transpiration during the peak growth period (in August).
- Publication
Trees: Structure & Function, 2006, Vol 20, Issue 1, p122
- ISSN
0931-1890
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00468-005-0019-1