Frequent observations of higher mortality in larger trees than in smaller ones during
droughts have sparked an increasing interest in size‐dependent drought‐induced mortality …

Stand structure can strongly influence forest growth and other processes, such as the water
balance, carbon partitioning, nutrient cycling and light dynamics. However, individual …

Increasing frequency of extremely dry and hot summers in some regions emphasise the
need for silvicultural approaches to increase the drought tolerance of existing forests in the …

Background Deep roots are a common trait among a wide range of plant species and
biomes, and are pivotal to the very existence of ecosystem services such as pedogenesis …

Contemporary soil science and conservation methods of effective forestry Forests and the
soils that serve as their foundation cover almost a third of the world's land area. Soils …

Organized forestry in Brazil began in the late 1960s, stimulated by a government policy
which subsidized afforestation programs from 1967 to 1989 to develop an internationally …

The drivers underlying the development of deep root systems, whether genetic or
environmental, are poorly understood but evidence has accumulated that deep rooting …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Climate models predict that the frequency, intensity and duration of drought events will
increase in tropical regions. Although water withdrawal from deep soil layers is generally …

Although we have an intuitive understanding of the behavior and functions of groundwater in
the Earth's critical zone at the scales of a column (atmosphere‐plant‐soil‐bedrock), along a …