Joe,
The trees I have been following are having a banner year, and for species like tulip poplar that growth should continue well into August. I'm unsure how New England's typically trees respond to an unusually wet season other than by growing more. I would think that young trees that represent species that are prolific growers like cottonwoods, tulip poplars, and sycamores would grow several feet this year. I'm going to start looking for the evidence of that. In the South and parts of the Mid-west, the species I mentioned have been known to grow as much as 10 to 13 feet in a single growing season. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Zorzin" <[email protected]> To: "ENTS" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:41:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] rain and growth rates? Now that this is year is one of the wettest on record, at least in the northeast, just how much can we expect tree growth rings to reflect this fact? That is- if it rains twice as much as typical, during the growing season, will that result in a ring twice as wide? Probably not, but I wonder what sort of relationship there is between these 2 variables. I started thinking about this as I notice the trees in my backyard showing what appear to be greater growth at the top than previous years- especially noticeable on white and pitch pine leaders. Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
