Illuminating hydrological processes at the soil‐vegetation‐atmosphere interface with water stable isotopes

M Sprenger, H Leistert, K Gimbel… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Water stable isotopes (18O and 2H) are widely used as ideal tracers to track water through
the soil and to separate evaporation from transpiration. Due to the technical developments in …

Reviews and syntheses: Isotopic approaches to quantify root water uptake: a review and comparison of methods

Y Rothfuss, M Javaux - Biogeosciences, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
Plant root water uptake (RWU) has been documented for the past five decades from water
stable isotopic analysis. By comparing the (hydrogen or oxygen) stable isotopic …

Stem water cryogenic extraction biases estimation in deuterium isotope composition of plant source water

Y Chen, BR Helliker, X Tang, F Li, Y Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
The hydrogen isotope ratio of water cryogenically extracted from plant stem samples
(δ2Hstem_CVD) is routinely used to aid isotope applications that span hydrological …

Stable isotopes in leaf water of terrestrial plants

LA Cernusak, MM Barbour, SK Arndt… - Plant, Cell & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf water contains naturally occurring stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in
abundances that vary spatially and temporally. When sufficiently understood, these can be …

The two water worlds hypothesis: ecohydrological separation of water between streams and trees?

JJ McDonnell - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent work in ecohydrology has shown that in some forested watershed systems, streams
and trees appear to return different pools of water to the hydrosphere. Thus far, evidence for …

Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes–challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary …

D Penna, L Hopp, F Scandellari, ST Allen… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
In this commentary, we summarize and build upon discussions that emerged during the
workshop “Isotope-based studies of water partitioning and plant–soil interactions in forested …

Toward a common methodological framework for the sampling, extraction, and isotopic analysis of water in the Critical Zone to study vegetation water use

N Ceperley, TE Gimeno, SR Jacobs… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The analysis of the stable isotopic composition of hydrogen and oxygen in water samples
from soils and plants can help to identify sources of vegetation water uptake. This approach …

Quantifying N2O reduction to N2 based on N2O isotopocules – validation with independent methods (helium incubation and 15N gas flux method)

D Lewicka-Szczebak, J Augustin, A Giesemann… - …, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
Stable isotopic analyses of soil-emitted N 2 O (δ 15 N bulk, δ 18 O and δ 15 N sp= 15 N site
preference within the linear N 2 O molecule) may help to quantify N 2 O reduction to N 2, an …

Plant and root‐zone water isotopes are difficult to measure, explain, and predict: Some practical recommendations for determining plant water sources

J von Freyberg, ST Allen, C Grossiord… - Methods in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope ratios of water (δ18O, δ2H) have long been used to study a core question in
plant ecology and ecohydrology:'From where do plants take up water?'Indeed, decades of …

Intercomparison of soil pore water extraction methods for stable isotope analysis

N Orlowski, DL Pratt, JJ McDonnell - Hydrological Processes, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of δ2H and δ18O composition of pore waters in saturated and unsaturated
soil samples are routinely performed in hydrological studies. A variety of in‐situ and lab …