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Sustained increases in plant production in response to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration may be constrained by the availability of soil nitrogen (N). However, it is possible that plants will respond to N limitation at elevated CO 2  concentration by increasing the specific N uptake capacity of their roots. To explore this possibility, we examined the kinetics of  15 NH 4  +  and  15 NO 3  −  uptake by excised roots of  Populus tremuloides  Michx. grown in ambient and twice-ambient CO 2  concentrations, and in soils of low- and high-N availability. Elevated CO 2  concentration had no effect on either NH 4  +  or NO 3  −  uptake, whereas high-N availability decreased the capacity of roots to take up both NH 4  +  and NO 3  − . The maximal rate of NH 4  +  uptake decreased from 12 to 8 μmol g −1  h −1 , and  K  m  increased from 49 to 162 μmol l −1 , from low to high soil N availability.Because NO 3  −  uptake exhibited mixedkinetics over the concentration range we used (10–500 μmol l −1 ), it was not possible to calculate  V  max  and  K  m . Instead, we used an uptake rate of 100 μmol g −1  h −1  as our metric of NO 3  −  uptake capacity, which averaged 0.45 and 0.23 μmol g −1  h −1  at low- and high-N availability, respectively. The proximal mechanisms for decreased N uptake capacity at high-N availability appeared to be an increase in fine-root carbohydrate status and a decrease in fine-root N concentration. Both NH 4  +  and NO 3  −  uptake were inversely related to fine-root N concentration, and positively related to fine-root total nonstructural carbohydrate concentration. We conclude that soil N availability, through its effects on fine-root N and carbohydrate status, has a much greater influence on the specific uptake capacity of  P. tremuloides  fine roots than elevated atmospheric CO 2 . In elevated atmospheric CO 2 , changes in N acquisition by  P. tremuloides  appeared to be driven by changes in root architecture and biomass, rather than by changes in the amount or activity of N-uptake enzymes.

Kinetics of nitrogen uptake by Populus tremuloides in relation to atmospheric CO 2 and soil nitrogen availability