Missouri stand:
The ~85-year-old MO stand (MO 85yo) (38° 44’ 38.76”,
-92° 12’ 0”) was located in the University of Missouri’s Baskett
Wildlife Research and Education Area. It is a comparitively xeric
secondary oak-hickory forest, with dominant species of Q. alba ,Quercus velutina Lam., A. saccharum, Carya ovata (Mill.)
K. Koch, and Juniperus virginiana L. (Wood et al ., 2018).
While this site received similar annual precipitation to IN and NC_E,
high precipitation variability and comparatively shallow silt loam soils
imposed frequent and severe physiological drought (Gu et al. ,
2015; Gu et al. , 2016).