Trees either hunker down or press on in a drying and warming western US climate

Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 21:30 in Biology & Nature

Details of the radically divergent strategies that two common tree species employ to cope with drought in southwestern Colorado have been revealed by researchers. As they report in a new paper, one tree species shuts down production and conserves water, while the other alters its physiology to continue growing and using water.

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