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TREE AGE (Years)<br />

Figure 3.kPaper birch mean height growth (A), mean survival (B), and mean susceptibility to b<strong>or</strong>er attack (C) over time<br />

(years post-establishment) in a provenance plantation in southern Michigan. Survival was based on only those trees<br />

that lived f<strong>or</strong> the first two years. The 0-3 b<strong>or</strong>er rating scale is presented in the Methods section. Trees are divided<br />

into four treatment groups based on the climatic differential (CD) between the average annual mean temperature of<br />

the <strong>or</strong>igin of each seed source and the annual mean temperature of the plantation site. On average, trees assigned to<br />

treatment CD 1° had a 1.1°C difference between the <strong>or</strong>igin and the test site, CD2 ° a 2.2°C difference, CD3 ° a 3.3°C<br />

difference, and CD4 ° a 4.4*C difference (see Table 2). F<strong>or</strong> each parameter, means followed by the same letter within<br />

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