Trees Either Hunker Down or Press on in a Drying and Warming Western U.S. Climate
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 16:32
in Biology & Nature
Two University of Washington researchers have uncovered details of the radically divergent strategies that two common tree species employ to cope with drought in southwestern Colorado. As they report in a new paper in the journal Global Change Biology, one tree species shuts down production and conserves water, while the other alters its physiology to continue growing and using water.