Hydraulic redistribution (HR) by deep-rooting trees can provide water from deeper soil layers to shallow-rooted understory plants, yet species-specific and t...

The slow recovery of leaf area in mature spruce following a long-term drought alleviated physiological stress during recurrent drought.

Mengxu Zhang, Emma J. Sayer, Ji Ye, Zuoqiang Yuan, Fei Lin, Zhanqing Hao, Shuai Fang, Zikun Mao, Pengcheng Jiang, Meihui Zhu, Xugao Wang. This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology ar…

Mature beech trees redistributed soil water, equal to ca. 10% of stand transpiration, from deeper moist soils to dry surface soils, where it was taken up by seedlings of different tree species.