This new article compares the below-canopy meteorological and subsurface hydrologic differences between two thinning prescriptions and an unaltered Control during periods of extreme drought and near-record precipitation (with little snow) within a coniferous forest in the rain-snow transition zone of the southern Cascades.
Hardage, K., Wheelock, S.J., Gaffney, R., O’Halloran, T., Serpa, B., Grant, G., Coppoletta, M., Csank, A., Tague, C., Staudacher, M., Tyler, S. (2022) Soil moisture and micrometeorological differences across reference and thinned stands during extremes of precipitation, southern Cascade Range, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 5:898998. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2022.898998
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