Articles | Volume 27, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3393-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3393-2023
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22 Sep 2023
Research article |  | 22 Sep 2023

Dye-tracer-aided investigation of xylem water transport velocity distributions

Stefan Seeger and Markus Weiler

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This study proposes a low-budget method to quantify the radial distribution of water transport velocities within trees at a high spatial resolution. We observed a wide spread of water transport velocities within a tree stem section, which were on average 3 times faster than the flux velocity. The distribution of transport velocities has implications for studies that use water isotopic signatures to study root water uptake and usually assume uniform or even implicitly infinite velocities.