Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability

This study was financially supported by: Xunta de Galicia, Grant/ Award Number: PGIDIT06PXIB502262PR, GRC GI-1809; INIA, Grant/Award Number: RTA2006-00117; CANOPEE, 2014-2020- FEDER funds; and Spanish Science Ministry: RTI2018-09688 4- B-C31, RTI2018-096884-B-C33, AGL2017-83828-C2-2R and ENV4-CT97-0641 projects. GSB was supported by a ‘Juan de la Cierva Formacion’ grant from MINECO (FJCI 2016-30121). This re - search was supported by the BERC 2018-2021 program, and by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities t hrough the BC3 Maria de Maeztu excellence accreditation (MDM-2017- 0714) and the IBERYCA (CGL2017-84723-P) project. R.S.S. was s up - ported by VULBOS project (UPO-1263216, FEDER Funds, And alusia Regional Government, Consejeria de Economia, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad 2014-2020), and A.H. by PinCaR pro ject (UHU-1266324, FEDER Funds, Andalusia Regional Government Consejeria de Economia, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad 2014-2020). K.N. was supported by the Ministry of Educatio n, Science and Sports (Republic of Slovenia, Raziskovalci-2.1- UL-BF- C3330-19-952011). We sincerely thank the in-depth analyse s and comments provided by the reviewers.