Joe- I'd guess you'd want to throw in just one more variable, that of number of sunny days/hours...as photosynthesis is integrally involved in growth ring formation... -Don PS:Yes, leader growth, and the whorling of branchlets at the end of each of those growth spurts could be measured and graphed in comparison to dbh annual increments...'twould be an interesting record! From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] rain and growth rates? Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:41:15 -0400
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 _________________________________________________________________ NEW mobile Hotmail. Optimized for YOUR phone. Click here. http://windowslive.com/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_CS_MB_new_hotmail_072009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
