High risk of growth cessation of planted larch under extreme drought

High risk of growth cessation of planted larch under extreme drought

Larch trees are widely used in afforestation and timber plantations. Yet, little is known on how planted larch trees cope with increasing drought. We used a tree-ring network of 818 trees from 31 plantations spanning most of the distribution of Larix principis-rupprechtii to investigate how extreme...

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Main Authors: Xianliang Zhang, Xue Li, Rubén D Manzanedo, Loïc D’Orangeville, Pengcheng Lv, Chunkai Wang, Chen Xu, Meiting Hou, Xuanrui Huang, Tim Rademacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
rapid warming
planted forests
larch
radial growth
drought
climate
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd214

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