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Nighttime transpiration of Populus euphratica during different phenophases

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Evidence exists of nighttime transpiration and its potential impact on plant/water relations for species in a diversity of ecosystems. However, relevant data related to typical desert riparian forest species remains limited. Accordingly, we measured sap flow velocity of Populus euphratica using the heat ratio method between 2012 and 2014. Nocturnal stem sap flow was separated into nighttime and stem refilling using the “forecasted refilling” method. Nighttime transpiration was observed for each phenophase. The highest value was during the full foliation period but lowest during leaf expansion and defoliation periods. The contribution of nighttime transpiration to daytime transpiration was an average of 15% but this was comparatively higher during the defoliation period. Relationships between nighttime transpiration, vapor pressure deficits, and air temperatures were more closely associated than with wind speed in all phenophases. Moreover, we found that nighttime transpiration linearly correlated to vapour pressure deficit during the first and the full foliation periods, but nighttime transpiration showed exponential correlations to air temperatures during the same phenophases. Additionally, environmental drivers of transpiration were significantly different between nighttime and daytime (P < 0.05). Driving forces behind nighttime transpiration were characterized by many factors, and integrated impacts between these multiple environmental factors were complex. Future studies should focus on these integrated impacts on nighttime transpiration, and the physiological mechanisms of nighttime transpiration should be investigated, given that this could also influence its occurrence and magnitude during different phenophases.

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  1. Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, People’s Republic of China

    Chunyan Zhao, Jianhua Si, Qi Feng, Tengfei Yu & Peidu Li

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100039, People’s Republic of China

    Chunyan Zhao & Peidu Li

  3. Key Laboratory of Ecohydrology of Inland River Basin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, People’s Republic of China

    Jianhua Si, Qi Feng & Tengfei Yu

  4. School of Agriculture and Food Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Michael A. Forster

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Project funding: This study was financially supported by the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences CAS (QYZDJ-SSW-DQC031), Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZZD-EW-04-05), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91025024), and the “Western Light” project of the Chinese Academy of Science.

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Zhao, C., Si, J., Feng, Q. et al. Nighttime transpiration of Populus euphratica during different phenophases. J. For. Res. 30, 435–444 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-018-0672-z

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