Responses in leaf water status of Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey and Carpinus betulus L. exposed to cement dust pollution in Northern Iran
Industrial air pollution, particularly cement dust, affects the leaf water status and resource utilisation and finally decreases primary production. Evaluating the relative water content (RWC), leaf mass per unit area (LMA), specific leaf area (SLA), and leaf water per unit area (LWA) helps selectin...
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| author | Jamshid Eslamdoust Seyed Mohsen Hosseini Fatemeh Kardel |
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| description | Industrial air pollution, particularly cement dust, affects the leaf water status and resource utilisation and finally decreases primary production. Evaluating the relative water content (RWC), leaf mass per unit area (LMA), specific leaf area (SLA), and leaf water per unit area (LWA) helps selecting more tolerant species for dusty polluted areas. In this study, we compare two species of Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey and Carpinus betulus L. in a polluted site (PL) around a cement factory, and a unpolluted site (UPL) in Mazandaran province, Northern Iran. Ten individual trees of each species were tagged at each site, and twenty fully developed leaves were collected for further analysis and calculation. Based on the results, RWC and LWA were significantly lower in the PL site (61.0% and 0.0075 g.cm-2, respectively) compared to the UPL site (71.1% and 0.0114 g.cm-2, respectively) for Q. castaneifolia. However, no significant differences were observed in selected variables between PL and UPL sites for C. betulus. Among the studied variables, SLA was significantly higher in C. betulus (259.1 cm2.g-1) compared to Q. castaneifolia (189.8 cm2.g-1). Our results indicated that C. betulus responds better to dust pollution in terms of leaf water variables. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc8c86c805a744e5b20eaa234de600692024-07-15T08:18:06ZengCzech Academy of Agricultural SciencesJournal of Forest Science1212-48341805-935X2023-08-0169832533310.17221/14/2023-JFSjfs-202308-0001Responses in leaf water status of Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey and Carpinus betulus L. exposed to cement dust pollution in Northern IranJamshid Eslamdoust0Seyed Mohsen Hosseini1Fatemeh Kardel2Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranDepartment of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Mazandaran, IranIndustrial air pollution, particularly cement dust, affects the leaf water status and resource utilisation and finally decreases primary production. Evaluating the relative water content (RWC), leaf mass per unit area (LMA), specific leaf area (SLA), and leaf water per unit area (LWA) helps selecting more tolerant species for dusty polluted areas. In this study, we compare two species of Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey and Carpinus betulus L. in a polluted site (PL) around a cement factory, and a unpolluted site (UPL) in Mazandaran province, Northern Iran. Ten individual trees of each species were tagged at each site, and twenty fully developed leaves were collected for further analysis and calculation. Based on the results, RWC and LWA were significantly lower in the PL site (61.0% and 0.0075 g.cm-2, respectively) compared to the UPL site (71.1% and 0.0114 g.cm-2, respectively) for Q. castaneifolia. However, no significant differences were observed in selected variables between PL and UPL sites for C. betulus. Among the studied variables, SLA was significantly higher in C. betulus (259.1 cm2.g-1) compared to Q. castaneifolia (189.8 cm2.g-1). Our results indicated that C. betulus responds better to dust pollution in terms of leaf water variables.https://jfs.agriculturejournals.cz/artkey/jfs-202308-0001_responses-in-leaf-water-status-of-quercus-castaneifolia-c-a-mey-and-carpinus-betulus-l-exposed-to-cement-dust.phphyrcanian forestprimary productionresource utilisationspecific leaf areatranspiration |
| spellingShingle | Jamshid Eslamdoust Seyed Mohsen Hosseini Fatemeh Kardel Responses in leaf water status of Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey and Carpinus betulus L. exposed to cement dust pollution in Northern Iran Journal of Forest Science hyrcanian forest primary production resource utilisation specific leaf area transpiration |
| title | Responses in leaf water status of Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey and Carpinus betulus L. exposed to cement dust pollution in Northern Iran |
| title_full | Responses in leaf water status of Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey and Carpinus betulus L. exposed to cement dust pollution in Northern Iran |
| title_fullStr | Responses in leaf water status of Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey and Carpinus betulus L. exposed to cement dust pollution in Northern Iran |
| title_full_unstemmed | Responses in leaf water status of Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey and Carpinus betulus L. exposed to cement dust pollution in Northern Iran |
| title_short | Responses in leaf water status of Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey and Carpinus betulus L. exposed to cement dust pollution in Northern Iran |
| title_sort | responses in leaf water status of quercus castaneifolia c a mey and carpinus betulus l exposed to cement dust pollution in northern iran |
| topic | hyrcanian forest primary production resource utilisation specific leaf area transpiration |
| url | https://jfs.agriculturejournals.cz/artkey/jfs-202308-0001_responses-in-leaf-water-status-of-quercus-castaneifolia-c-a-mey-and-carpinus-betulus-l-exposed-to-cement-dust.php |
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