Short informative title:
Experimentally manipulated temperature and summer rainfall affects
stomatal behavior
Artur Stefanski1*, Ethan E. Butler1,
Raimundo Bermudez1, Rebecca A.
Montgomery1, and Peter B. Reich1,2,3
Affiliations: 1 Department of Forest Resources, University of
Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
2 Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western
Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2753, Australia.
3 Institute for Global Change Biology, and School for
the Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI, 48109, USA
*Corresponding Author
Corresponding author: Artur Stefanski
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
55108, USA.
Tel: 612.625.2261
Email: stefa066@umn.edu
Total Words: manuscript main body – 59890, abstract – 199
Summary statement:Climate change may influence the trade-off between water loss and carbon
gain of forest trees. Experimental warming and rainfall manipulation in
southern boreal forest led to elevation of soil water deficits causing
all 21 tree species studied to become more conservative in their use of
water.