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.