In the early 1900s, the Morton Arboretum established large, single-species plots to assess and demonstrate the “practical value of reforestation.” Today, it is using these plots to address questions about tree responses to climate change; relationships among leaf, stem, and root phenology; forest carbon and nutrient dynamics; and the connections among tree traits, soil invertebrate and microbial communities, and soil biogeochemistry.
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The Morton Arboretum Forestry Plots
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