Photosynthetic Capacity Measurements of Betula pendula, Fagus sylvatica, Quercus robur, Aesculus hippocastanum and Malus domestica using Licor 6400, Burggrummbach, GermanyManuelaAl HassaniDepartment of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt am MainAltenhoeferallee 1Frankfurt am MainHesse60438GermanyFor photosynthetic capacity we used a Licor 6400 to derive A-Ci curves (curves of the response of
photosynthetic rate to changes in leaf internal CO2 concentration) following the field protocol used by
Xu and Baldocchi (2003). This protocol involves allowing the leaf to acclimatise for 30 minutes to a
high (1000 ppm) chamber CO2 concentration and then programing a decrease in CO2 concentration in the
sequence 1000, 700, 500, 360, 200, 150, 100, 50 ppm. The leaves were given eight minutes
to acclimatise to each CO2 level before measuring the gas exchange parameters. Light intensity
was set to 800 mymol*m2*s-1.aesculus hippocastanumbetula pendulaclimate changefagus sylvaticalicor 6400 measurementsmalus domesticaphotosynthetic capacityplant growthquercus roburBurggrummbach, Germany10.0110.0149.5249.522009-05-182009-06-10GenusAesculusSpecieshippocastanumGenusBetulaSpeciespendulaGenusFagusSpeciessylvaticaGenusMalusSpeciesdomesticaGenusQuercusSpeciesroburManuelaAl HassaniDepartment of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt am MainAltenhoeferallee 1Frankfurt am MainHesse60438Germanyhiggins@em.uni-frankfurt.de 07_Betula_pendula.csv 07_Betula_pendula.csv2351 13#x0Acolumn #x09 ecogrid://knb/shiggins.121.1public
read
"Obs"Observation number natural "HHMMSS"Clock time string, 24 hour HH:MM:SS "FTime"Number of seconds that has elapsed since file was opened. second real Energy balance flag"EBal?"Controls whether or not an energy balance
computation is done. dimensionless natural"Photo"
Photosynthetic rate
mymol CO2 m-2 s-1
real
"Cond"Conductance to H2O mol H2O m-2 s-1 real"Ci"
Intercellular CO2 concentration
mymol CO2 mol-1
real
"Trmmol"Transpiration rate mmol H2O m-2 s-1 real "VpdL"Vapor pressure deficit based on Leaf temp (kPa) kilopascal real "CTleaf"If energy balance is being used, the computed leaf-air temperature difference is added to the air temperature. celsius real "Area"Leaf area (cm2) squareCentimeters natural "BLC_1"One sided BL cond. mol m-2 s-1 real "StmRat"Stomatal ratio estimate dimensionless natural "BLCond"Total Boundary Layer Conductance mol m-2 s-1 real "Tair"Temperature in sample cell (C) celsius real "Tleaf"Temperature of leaf thermocouple (C) celsius real "TBlk"IRGA Block Temperature (C) celsius real"CO2R"
Reference cell CO2
mymol CO2 mol-1
real
"CO2S"
Sample cell CO2
mymol CO2 mol-1
real
"H2OR"Reference cell H2O mmol H2O mol-1 real "H2OS"Sample cell H2O mmol H2O mol-1 real "RH_R"Relative humidity in the reference cell (%) number real "RH_S"Relative humidity in the sample cell (%) number real"Flow"
Flow rate to the sample cell
mymol s-1
real
"PARi"
In-chamber quantum sensor
mymol m-2 s-1
natural
"PARo"
External PAR
mymol m-2 s-1
natural
"Press"Pressure (kPa) kilopascal real"CsMch"
Sample CO2 offset
mymol mol-1
real
"HsMch"Sample H2O offset mmol mol-1 real "StableF"Stable / Total as fraction number real "BLCslope"Slope as function of area degree real "BLCoffset"offset as function of area meter real "f_parin"Fraction of ParIn_ÃÂÃÂÃÂüm to use for EB micrometer real f_paroutFraction of ParOut_ÃÂÃÂÃÂüm to use for EB micrometer real "alphaK"Used in the conversion of ÃÂÃÂÃÂümol mol-1 to W m-2 dimensionless real "Status"Status variable dimensionless natural21attached_fileNot authorized to access resourceOtherattached_fileNot authorized to access resourceOtherattached_fileNot authorized to access resourceOtherattached_fileNot authorized to access resourceOtherattached_fileNot authorized to access resourceOtherattached_fileNot authorized to access resourceOtherattached_fileNot authorized to access resourceOther mymol CO2 m-2 s-1 mol H2O m-2 s-1 mymol CO2 mol-1 mmol H2O m-2 s-1 mol m-2 s-1 mymol s-1 mymol m-2 s-1 mymol mol-1 mmol mol-1 mmol H2O mol-1 mol/m2/s Watt per Squaremeter mymol per mol