Foliar nitrogen metabolism of adult Douglas-fir trees is affected by soil water availability and varies little among provenances

• Baoguo Du,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Mianyang Normal University, Mianyang, China, Chair of Tree Physiology, Institute of Forest Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Jürgen Kreuzwieser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Tree Physiology, Institute of Forest Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Michael Dannenmann,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Campus Alpin, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

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• Laura Verena Junker,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Graduate Programs in Cell & Systems Biology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA), Freiburg, Germany

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• Anita Kleiber,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Tree Physiology, Institute of Forest Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Moritz Hess,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Graduate Programs in Cell & Systems Biology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA), Freiburg, Germany, Institute of Medical Biometry, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Kirstin Jansen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany, Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

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• Monika Eiblmeier,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Chair of Tree Physiology, Institute of Forest Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Arthur Gessler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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• Ulrich Kohnle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA), Freiburg, Germany

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• Ingo Ensminger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Graduate Programs in Cell & Systems Biology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA), Freiburg, Germany

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• Heinz Rennenberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chair of Tree Physiology, Institute of Forest Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Henning Wildhagen

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: henning.wildhagen@hawk.de

  Current address: HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen, Faculty of Resource Management, Göttingen, Germany

  Affiliation Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA), Freiburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4970-8539

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