Recovery of trees from drought depends on belowground sink control

Nature Plants

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Hagedorn, Frank ^a   Joseph, Jobin ^a,b   Peter, Martina ^a   Luster, Jörg ^a   Pritsch, Karin ^c   Geppert, Uwe ^c   Kerner, Rene ^c   Molinier, Virginie ^a   Egli, Simon ^a   Schaub, Marcus ^a   Liu, Jian Feng ^d   Li, Maihe ^a   Sever, Krunoslav ^e   Weiler, Markus ^b   Siegwolf, Rolf T W ^f   Gessler, Arthur ^a,g,h   Arend, Matthias ^a,i  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^g LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^h BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

ⁱ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEECH; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; DROUGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; TREE;

CARBON CYCLE; DROUGHTS; FAGUS; SOIL; TREES;

EID: 84985916019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.111     Document Type: Article

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