Missing Rings, Synchronous Growth, and Ecological Disturbance in a 36-Year Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) Provenance Study.

PLoS One · 2016 · PMC4868262 · PMID 27182599

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Local seed sources had a lower percentage of missing rings than the most distant seed sources, though this result was marginally statistically significant (Wilcoxon Test: p = 0.049).

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marginally significantno p-value reported

Additionally, there was a negative correlation between average index and January maximum temperatures, though this correlation was marginally significant.

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