Claim · model-written summary
A recovery year between two droughts gave trees less drought resilience than consecutive drought treatments.
- Taxon
- trembling aspene0
- Treatment
- a recovery period between two drought treatmentse1
- Outcome
- drought resiliencee1
- Direction
- lesse1
- Comparator
- two and three-consecutive-year treatmentse1
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Verbatim
e0“trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides)”
e1“Trees that experienced a recovery period between two drought treatments exhibited less drought resilience compared to both the two and three-consecutive-year treatments.”
Title
Lack of Hydraulic Acclimation in Response to Multiple Droughts and Recovery
Jaycie C. Fickle; Kelly L. Kerr; Lillie I. Congram; et al. Plant Cell & Environment 2026. doi:10.1111/pce.70671
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Recovery treatment reduced tree growth rates.
- Intervention effect Recovery treatment increased xylem damage in older rings.
- Intervention effect No hydraulic acclimation to severe drought was detected over time.
- Intervention effect The authors infer severe repeated drought raises hydraulic vulnerability.