Nonstructural carbon (NSC) provides the carbon and energy for plant growth and survival.
In woody plants, fundamental questions about NSC remain unresolved: Is NSC storage an …

Nonstructural carbohydrate reserves support tree metabolism and growth when current
photosynthates are insufficient, offering resilience in times of stress. We monitored stemwood …

Moisture inputs drive soil respiration (SR) dynamics in semi-arid and arid ecosystems. However,
determining the contributions of root and microbial respiration to SR, and their separate …

The allocation of nonstructural carbon ( NSC ) to growth, metabolism and storage remains
poorly understood, but is critical for the prediction of stress tolerance and mortality. We used …

Despite the importance of nonstructural carbohydrates ( NSC ) for growth and survival in
woody plants, we know little about whole‐tree NSC storage. The conventional theory suggests …

• Quantification of the fate of carbon (C) used by plant metabolism is necessary to improve
predictions of terrestrial ecosystem respiration and its sources. • Here, a dual isotope ( 13 C …

Soil respiration, the flux of CO 2 from the soil to the atmosphere represents a major flux in
the global carbon cycle. Our ability to predict this flux remains limited because of multiple …

Radiocarbon signatures (Δ 14 C) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) provide a measure of the age of
C being decomposed by microbes or respired by living plants. Over a 2‐year period, we …

We know surprisingly little about whole‐tree nonstructural carbon ( NSC ; primarily sugars
and starch) budgets. Even less well understood is the mixing between recent photosynthetic …

A mechanistic understanding of soil respiration is a major impediment to predicting terrestrial
C fluxes spatially and temporally. Automated measurements of soil respiration offer the high…