Nine years of irrigation cause vegetation and fine root shifts in a water-limited pine forest.

Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris L.) in the inner-Alpine dry valleys of Switzerland have suffered from increased mortality during the past decades, which has been caused by longer and more frequent dry periods. In addition, a proceeding replacement of Scots pines by pubescent oaks (Quercus pubescens Wi...

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Main Authors: Claude Herzog, Jan Steffen, Elisabeth Graf Pannatier, Irka Hajdas, Ivano Brunner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4011741?pdf=render