Article Title
Growth-rainfall trend coefficients shown by six species of hardwoods in Brown County, Indiana
Abstract
In an earlier paper it has been shown that when rainfall, for any period with which radial tree growth shows a significant correlation, is conspicuously less than for the corresponding period of the previous year, decrease in tree growth occurs in a higher percentage of individuals than the percentage of trees which show increased radial growth during years when the rainfall shows conspicuous increases for the same periods. Decreased rainfall was accompanied by decreased growth in 62-82% of the years while increased rainfall was accompanied by increased radial growth in 50-72% of the years. During years when there was 90-100% agreement amongst individual trees, increase in radial growth accompanied increase in rainfall and decrease in radial growth accompanied decrease in rainfall for nearly all month combinations.
