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Learning from a century of droughts

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Tree ring records show that sensitivity of conifer trees to drought has generally increased during the last century, but so has post-drought recovery.

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Fig. 1: Tree radial growth during drought (resistance) responds to very different atmospheric drivers than the rate of tree radial growth in the recovery period following drought (resilience).

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Brodribb, T.J. Learning from a century of droughts. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 1007–1008 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1226-2

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