News Finding: When the team put the two sets of data together, though, along with climate data from the same 150-year period, they could clearly see the link between periods of slow growth and dead trees later on.
Paper Finding: Figure 6 shows how ring-width chronology for this old-growth site compares to a chronology computed, using identical methods, from a nearby 85-year-old site (cf.
News Context: Bond-Lamberty said this isn't surprising to see in a forest that hasn't seen a wildfire in a long time. When the team put the two sets of data together, though, along with climate data from the same 150-year period, they could clearly see the link between periods of slow growth and dead trees later on. advertisement
  
  "We see a five-year lag between depressed growth in the tree core data and increase of deaths in mortality data," said Bond-Lamberty.
Paper Context: The length of this process varies greatly by species and the stressors involved; our 5-year estimate is consistent with a broad range (0-10+ years) reported from forests worldwide . Figure 6 shows how ring-width chronology for this old-growth site compares to a chronology computed, using identical methods, from a nearby 85-year-old site (cf. The strong cross-site correlation (r = 0.55) in Fig.