Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Nature Plants

• Publication date

  2015-09-28

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nplants.2015.139PMID 27251391
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