Comments on: Plant stress master variable: non-structural carbon? http://scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net/?p=1075 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 By: Anthony http://scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net/?p=1075&cpage=1#comment-17062 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:33:23 +0000 http://anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net/scienceblog/?p=1075#comment-17062 Thanks for that link. Cool application of this idea.

As for the snowmelt acceleration, I think the snow may act as a protective blanket for the plants.

There are a few hints in the literature that this might be true, like in this paper:

“At the upland tundra site, protection of overwintering buds by a longer duration of deep snow appears to be linked to greater photosynthetic capacity and NEP.”

]]> By: Aaron Berdanier http://scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net/?p=1075&cpage=1#comment-16803 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:20:04 +0000 http://anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net/scienceblog/?p=1075#comment-16803 Really great idea! I will check that article out. I just read an article in PNAS looking at water and carbon stress in dying aspen and they looked at NSC (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/12/13/1107891109.short). Do you have a hypothesis about what is causing the plants to be stressed from the snowmelt acceleration?

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