Hydraulic redistribution (HR) of water from moist to drier soils, through plant roots, occurs world‐wide in seasonally dry ecosystems. Although the influence of HR on landscape hydrology and plant water use has been amply demonstrated, HR's effects on microbe‐controlled processes sensitive to soil moisture, including carbon and nutrient cycling at ecosystem scales, remain difficult to observe in the field and have not been int...

Mortality processes in old‐growth forests are generally assumed to be driven by gap‐scale disturbance, with only a limited role ascribed to density‐dependent mortality, but these assumptions are rarely tested with data sets incorporating repeated measurements. Using a 12‐ha spatially explicit plot censused 13 years apart in an approximately 500‐year‐old Pseudotsuga – Tsuga forest, we demonstrate significant density‐dependent m...