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Early Impacts of Rainfall Manipulation and Fertilization Treatments on the Ecophysiology of Loblolly Pine in the Georgia Tier III Installation PDF document
PINEMAP Research Summary, February 2013. Authors: Joe Clark, Lisa Samuelson, and Stan Bartkowiak. A central goal of the PINEMAP project is to quantify climate, soils, and management impacts on carbon sequestration in planted pine ecosystems and provide data on these impacts to build and verify models that simulate pine forest dynamics under varying climate. To help achieve this goal, we are studying the interactive effects of a 30% reduction in rainfall and nutrient availability on the ecophysiology of loblolly pine. This field experiment is part of the PINEMAP Tier III “Throughfall Exclusion x Fertilization” network, in which nutrients and water are manipulated at four sites situated at the edges of the native loblolly pine range.
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