Wood density predicts plant damage and vegetative recovery rates caused by cyclone disturbance in tropical rainforest tree species of North Queensland, Australia

By T. Curran, Lauren N. Gersbach, W. Edwards, A. Krockenberger. 2008

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Soil fertility induces coordinated responses of multiple independent functional traits (2015, background): “The trade-off of having low stem tissue density is lower resistance to disturbance and drought-induced cavitation (Swenson & Enquist 2007; Curran et al. 2008), although dense wood does not always confer greater resistance to disturbance (Bellingham, Tanner & Healey 1995).”
Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species (2010, background): “Dense wood tends to bemore resistant to stress, both in terms ofmechanical damage (e.g. Curran et al. 2008) and drought (Hacke et al. 2001), which might explain why trees with denser woods tend to show lowerMR.”