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<div><font face="Arial"><i>Forest Ecology and Management</i> Volume
363, 1 March 2016, Pages 149-158</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS"><b>Contrasting growth and mortality
responses to climate warming of two pine species in a continental
Mediterranean ecosystem</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS">Estela Herguido, Elena Granda,
Raquel Benavides, Ana I. García-Cervigón, J. Julio Camarero,
Fernando Valladares</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Highlights</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS">*Mediterranean pine forests are
threatened by increasing warming-related aridification.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS">*Secondary growth and mortality
patterns vary between two closely related pine species.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS">*Sustained drought stress
predisposes Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii to death.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS">*Punctual drought conditions
trigger death events in Pinus sylvestris.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS">*Site conditions modulate growth
patterns and drought-induced mortality events.</font></div>
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<div>Abstract</div>
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>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112715007653</div
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