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COST Action E 52 - vTI - Bund.de

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<strong>de</strong>foliation, and in severe cases, stem lesions and mortality (Innes 1988, Power, Ashmore,<br />

Ling 1995, Stribley 2005). The Forestry Commission forest condition monitoring programmes<br />

<strong>de</strong>tected such damage through the 1980s and 1990s when there were several episo<strong>de</strong>s of<br />

atypically severe summer drought. The risks to beech are highest on shallow or sandy soils with<br />

Fig. 8: European-scale beech provenance trial – Northmoor Trust<br />

Fig. 9: Beech provenance trial – planted early 1950‘s – south Scotland<br />

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