Forest productivity varies with soil moisture more than temperature in a small montane watershed

•Temperature inversions were observed more often than not in a 27 km watershed across 460 m elevation.•The cold-air pool had a constant upper boundary throughout the year at ∼1370 m a.s.l.•Modelled elevational trends of tree height generally matched lidar-based observations.•T and VPD were not the k...

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