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Day-length regulates seasonal patterns of stomatal conductance in Quercus species.

Publicated to:Plant Cell And Environment. 43 (1): 28-39 - 2020-01-01 43(1), DOI: 10.1111/pce.13665

Authors: Granda, Elena; Baumgarten, Frederik; Gessler, Arthur; Gil-Pelegrin, Eustaquio; Javier Peguero-Pina, Jose; Sancho-Knapik, Domingo; Zimmerman, Niklaus E; Resco de Dios, Victor

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Ctr Invest & Tecnol Agroalimentaria Aragon, Unidad Recursos Forestales, Avda Montanana 930, Zaragoza 50059, Spain - Author
Department of Crop and Forest Sciences - AGROTECNIO Center, Universitat de Lleida, 25198, Lleida, Spain. - Author
Department of Life Sciences, University of Alcalá, E-28805, Alcalá de Henares, Spain. - Author
School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, 621010, Mianyang, China. - Author
Southwest Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Life Sci & Engn, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, Peoples R China - Author
Swiss Fed Inst Forest Snow & Landscape Res WSL, Forest Dynam, Zurcherstr 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland - Author
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. - Author
Unidad de Recursos Forestales, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón, Gobierno de Aragón. Avda. Montañana 930, 50059, Zaragoza, Spain. - Author
Univ Alcala De Henares, Dept Life Sci, E-28805 Alcala De Henares, Spain - Author
Univ Lleida, AGROTECNIO Ctr, Dept Crop & Forest Sci, Ave Rovira Roure 191, Lleida 25198, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Vapor pressure deficit is a major driver of seasonal changes in transpiration, but photoperiod also modulates leaf responses. Climate warming might enhance transpiration by increasing atmospheric water demand and the length of the growing season, but photoperiod-sensitive species could show dampened responses. Here, we document that day-length is a significant driver of the seasonal variation in stomatal conductance. We performed weekly gas exchange measurements across a common garden experiment with 12 oak species from contrasting geographical origins and we observed that the influence of day-length was of similar strength to that of vapor pressure deficit in driving the seasonal pattern. We then examined the generality of our findings by incorporating day-length regulation into well-known stomatal models. For both angiosperm and gymnosperm species the models improved significantly when adding day-length dependences. Photoperiod control over stomatal conductance could play a large yet underexplored role on the plant and ecosystem water balance.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Circadian rhythmClimate-changeCycadopsidaDay lengthDay-lengthGas exchangeGrowthLatitudeMagnoliopsidaMediterraneanPhotoperiodPhotosynthetic capacityPlant leavesPlant stomataPlant transpirationQuercusResponsesSeasonsSensitivityShiftsStomatal controlTemperateTreesTropicalVapor pressureWoody plants

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Plant Cell And Environment due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2020, it was in position 11/235, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Plant Sciences. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 1.69, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-11, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 11
  • Scopus: 13
  • Europe PMC: 3
  • Google Scholar: 17

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-11:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 73.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 73 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 8.6.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 2 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 16 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: China; Switzerland.