... difficult to interpret for several reasons:(i) in the thinned plot, 2 periods out of 3 occur during leaf- flush-ing and caterpillars attacks, when variability is probablyincreased and (ii) in the ... velocityprofiles of water flow in trunks of Norway spruce and oak and res-ponse of spruce to severing, Tree Physiol. 10 (1993) 367–380.[12] Clearwater M.J., Meinzer F.C., Andrade J.L., Goldstein G., ... removed 32% of oakbasal area. Most of the thinned trees were healthy or suffering fromless than 25% of crown leaf loss according to visual assessment [43].Decline symptoms appeared since the...