Dr. Chongyang Xu, postdoc in our lab, is installing automatic band dendrometers on Aleppo pine trees in Hakedoshim forest to track tree growth and water use dynamics.

In a new perspective we argue that considering the rules of life in dry areas can promote a better understanding of how climate change affects Earth’s wetter areas, such as temperate and tropical forests, grasslands and agricultural fields.

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PhD students Omri Hasson and Simon Ludovicy worked very hard to extract tree ring cores from oak trees at the dry edge of their distribution to study drought and grazing effects on radial growth.