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Effect of native habitat on the cooling ability of six nursery-grown tree species and cultivars for future roadside plantings
Institution:1. Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, School of Life Sciences, Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Emil-Ramann-Str. 6, 85354 Freising, Germany;2. Forest Growth and Yield Science, School of Life Sciences, Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
Abstract:Vegetation in urban areas provides benefits to people, which are increasingly assessed and valued as ecosystem services (ESS). The regulation of the urban microclimate is one of these services, since trees have the potential to reduce urban heat loads by evapotranspiration and shading. Simultaneously, it has been suggested that trees from dry habitats should be used to cope with the increasing risks of drought under climate change in Central Europe. The underlying properties that enable those trees to reduce dependence on the environment, however, are assumed to come at the expense of biomass production and water loss. In the potentially conflicted area between drought tolerance and ESS we compared water consumption, water-use efficiency (WUE), crown structure and growth of six roadside species/cultivars, which are assumed to vary in drought tolerance, due to differing resource supplies in their native habitats. Acer platanoides, Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigiata’, and Tilia cordata ‘Greenspire’ were compared with Acer campestre, Ostrya carpinifolia, and Tilia tomentosa ‘Brabant’, the latter presumably being less water-demanding. Measurements took place in the municipal nursery of Munich during summer 2016.Surprisingly, the less water-demanding species/cultivars exhibited on average 1.24 times higher values of maximum daily sap flux density and up to seven times higher growth rates, both contributing to higher WUE. Scaled to leaf level, however, their mean daily transpiration rates were on average lower (0.21 and 0.31 kg H2O m?2 d?1, respectively). They also showed higher flexibility in response to changing weather with increased growth and transpiration under favorable conditions in early summer, but a more conservative water use in dry late summer. The results suggest that these species/cultivars tend to regulate their water use stronger under increasing dryness, whereas canopy size and leaf amount are still the main important determinants of species and cultivar differences in water use.
Keywords:Climate change  Cooling effectiveness  Drought tolerance  Transpiration  Urban trees  Water-use efficiency
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