Greater hydraulic safety contributes to higher growth resilience to drought across seven pine species in a semi-arid environment
Chun-Yang Duan1,2, Ming-Yong Li1, Li-Dong Fang1,2, Yu Cao3, De-Dong Wu3, Hui Liu4, Qing Ye4, Guang-You Hao1*
1CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
3Institute of Sand Land Control and Utilization, Liaoning Province, Fuxin 123000, China
4CAS Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangdong 510650, China
*Corresponding author: Guang-You Hao
E-mail: haogy@iae.ac.cn
Running head : Trade-off between drought resilience and growth