Mirela's contributions to forest water use research are featured in Fraught Forest series
From the Fraught Forest article, “A tiny waterfall flows down the high slopes of Mount Pisgah in southwestern Buncombe County, part of a minor tributary of Hominy Creek, in December 2015. Frank Taylor / Carolina Public Press”The Fraught Forest series by Carolina Public Press can be found here . The article references a paper that Mirela contributed to, Forest water use is increasingly decoupled from water availability even during severe drought, which was published on February 27, 2022 in Landscape Ecology.
From the article, “But what happens to a tree’s appetite during periods of drought in what has typically been one of the Southeast’s soggiest ecosystems?
The answer is that ridge-top forests are particularly greedy drinkers when it’s dry, according to three N.C. State University researchers in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources — doctoral student and lead researcher Katie McQuillan, and faculty co-authors Katherine Martin and Mirela Tulbure, who recently published their results in the journal Landscape Ecology.”
Bibliographic Citation
McQuillan, K.A., Tulbure, M.G. & Martin, K.L. Forest water use is increasingly decoupled from water availability even during severe drought. Landsc Ecol 37, 1801–1817 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-022-01425-9
Brooke Cox
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Undergraduate Researcher
I am an undergraduate student majoring in Environmental Science at North Carolina State University.