The roots of the drought: Hydrology and water uptake strategies mediate forest-wide demographic response to precipitation

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23 March 2018

An inter-disciplinary team at Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc) studied how different tree species partition underground water resources up to 30m depth and co-existing tree species diverge in water uptake depths (M-TROPICS/BVET). Deep rooted trees turn to be more vulnerable to severe droughts than shallow rooted species : climate change-type droughts could then affect the tree diversity.

The paper was published in Journal of Ecology and is available here.

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