traits/ height - TWI association?

[teixeirak]

Current text in discussion (italics new, in response to R2 comment):

In any case, the potentially greater access to water did not override the disadvantage conferred by height--and, in fact, greater moisture access in non-drought years (here, higher TWI) appears to make trees more sensitive to drought [@zuleta_drought-induced_2017; @stovall_tree2019]. *This is likely because moister habitats would tend to support species and individuals with more mesophytic traits (e.g., higher $\pi{tlp}$ and low $PLA_{dry}$, wider conduits), potentially growing to greater heights, and these are then more vulnerable when drought hits.*

Problem with the italicized text is that it's largely something we can test, so if we want to put it there, we should do the test. @mcgregorian1 , I think we tried this test at some point? I can't find those results.

[mcgregorian1]

Do you mean these plots? This is from #37

The numbers represent the % of trees with no values. I'm assuming then we want to take out the top bin?

[teixeirak]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. It's pretty inconclusive. What we'd want is some sort of habitat association analysis, but that's beyond our scope here. I'll try to word this such that it doesn't trigger reviewer requests for such an analysis.

[mcgregorian1]

Ok sounds good. Let me know if you'd like me to pull this out for separate figure at all

[teixeirak]

I don't think that's necessary; thanks.