3.6 Recovery height growth in relation to pre- and post-winter NSC level
Within each species, no correlations between recovery growth and NSC storage were found. The pooled data of the two species showed that the relative height increment of recovery growth during the whole rewetting season following the drought duration treatment was marginally significantly correlated with pre-winter root NSC (P = 0.07; Fig. 6a) and significantly correlated with post-winter root NSC (P = 0.01; Fig. 6b), but not with both pre- and post-winter NSC levels in shoots (Fig. 6a,b).