In this new publication, research revealed fundamental differences in water-use patterns and niche-partitioning of soil water resources among the phylogenetic groups of trees co-occurring in widespread forests around the Mediterranean. RHESSys model simulations show that this partitioning has an important role in the higher productivity of the mixed forest compared to monoculture forests.
Rog, I., Tague, C., Jakoby, G., Megidish, S., Yaakobi, A., Wagner, Y., & Klein, T. (2021) Interspecific soil water partitioning as a driver of increased productivity in a diverse mixed Mediterranean forest, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126: e2021JG006382. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006382
The Tague Team Lab 