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    Canopy uptake of atmospheric N deposition at a conifer forest: part I -canopy N budget, photosynthetic efficiency and net ecosystem exchange

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    H. Sievering ,

    Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, CO 80217; Long-Term Ecological Research Prog., INSTAAR, 450 UCB, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, US
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    T. Tomaszewski,

    Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, CO 80217; Long-Term Ecological Research Prog., INSTAAR, 450 UCB, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, US
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    J. Torizzo

    Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, CO 80217, US
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    Abstract

    Global carbon cycle assessments of anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition influences on carbon sequestration often assume enhanced sequestration results. This assumption was evaluated at a Rocky Mountains spruce-fir forest. Forest canopy N uptake (CNU) of atmospheric N deposition was estimated by combining event wet and throughfall N fluxes with gradient measured HNO3 and NH3 as well as inferred (NOx and particulate N) dry fluxes. Approximately 80% of the growing-season 3 kgN ha.1 total deposition is retained in canopy foliage and branches. This CNU constitutes ~ 1/3 of canopy growing season new N supply at this conifer forest site.

    Daytime net ecosystem exchange (NEE) significantly (P = 0.006) and negatively (CO2 uptake) correlated with CNU. Multiple regression indicates ~20% of daytime NEE may be attributed to CNU (P < 0.02); more than soil water content. A wet deposition N-amendment study (Tomaszewski and Sievering–part II), at canopy spruce branches, increased their growing-season CNU by 40-50% above ambient. Fluorometry and gas exchange results show N-amended spruce branches had greater photosynthetic efficiency and higher carboxylation rates than control and untreated branches. Namended branches had 25% less photoinhibition, with a 5-9% greater proportion of foliar-N-in-Rubisco. The combined results provide, partly, a mechanistic explanation for the NEE dependence on CNU.

    How to Cite: Sievering, H., Tomaszewski, T. and Torizzo, J., 2007. Canopy uptake of atmospheric N deposition at a conifer forest: part I -canopy N budget, photosynthetic efficiency and net ecosystem exchange. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 59(3), pp.483–492. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0889.2007.00264.x
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     Accepted on 11 Dec 2006            Submitted on 15 May 2006

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