Whole Tree Chambers

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The whole tree chambers are a state-of-the-art facility where mature trees can be investigated.

The fine control of temperature and humidity conditions allow for climate change experiments, in which the total tree fluxes are also measured.

Thus you don’t only get the leaf level response, you can see how the whole tree copes with the environmental conditions.

I have participated in several whole tree chamber experiments exposing fast-growing Eucalyptus trees to climate change conditions such as drought, elevated CO₂ and/or warming,

resulting in the following publications:

Seasonal acclimation of leaf respiration in Eucalyptus saligna trees: impacts of elevated atmospheric CO2 and summer drought

Photosynthesis of temperate Eucalyptus globulus trees outside their native range has limited adjustment to elevated CO2 and climate warming

Acclimation of light and dark respiration to experimental and seasonal warming are mediated by changes in leaf nitrogen in Eucalyptus globulus

Canopy position affects photosynthesis and anatomy in mature Eucalyptus trees in elevated CO2

Linking photosynthesis and leaf N allocation under future elevated CO2 and climate warming in Eucalyptus globulus

Responses of respiration in the light to warming in field‐grown trees: a comparison of the thermal sensitivity of the Kok and Laisk methods

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