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The quoted passage directly reports approximately 26.5% smaller crown area per unit stem diameter in drought-exposed trees than untreated controls. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Amazonian trees under long-term drought exposure are more resilient to El Niño extreme · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:97f4187b0691f3555c3f7a941131b7c13557604bde0566fab63c6f47cf402edc

The crown area to diameter ratio suggests PTs maintain approximately 26.5% smaller crown area per unit stem diameter than CTs, indicating substantial structural adjustment in response to chronic experimental drought exposure.