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).