Reply to “Height-related changes in forest composition explain increasing tree mortality with height during an extreme drought”
Classifying the tree-level dataset The Sierra Nevada mountains have unique species assemblages following strong topographic gradients, with the most dominant shifts controlled by topography12,13. In the low elevations the canopy is dominated by pines, shifting to fir species in high elevations. South-facing slopes tend to be dominated by drought-tolerant species, while North-facing slopes hold species […] More