Deep soil water extraction helps to drought avoidance but shallow soil water uptake during dry season controls the inter-annual variation in tree growth in four subtropical plantations
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Authors :Ülo Niinemets,Ivika Ostonen
https://academic.oup.com/treephys/article/40/8/981/5827381
