Nitrogen concentration and physical properties are key drivers of woody tissue respiration.
Andrea C WesterbandIan J WrightAllyson S D EllerLucas A CernusakPeter B ReichOscar Perez-PriegoShubham S ChhajedLindsay B HutleyCaroline E R LehmannPublished in: Annals of botany (2022)
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to report control of respiration-nitrogen relationships by physical properties of tissues, and one of few to report respiration-nitrogen relationships in bark and sapwood. Together, our findings indicate a potential path towards improving current estimates of autotrophic respiration by integrating variation across distinct plant tissues.