Relationships between radial growth rates and lifespan within North American tree species

By B. Black, J. Colbert, N. Pederson. 2008

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External Characteristics of Old Trees in the Eastern Deciduous Forest (2010, background): “Figure 3 in Black et al. (2008) shows that the older trees across four genera were not the largest trees and were, in fact, within the average range for diameter.”
Bioclimate and growth history affect beech lifespan in the Italian Alps and Apennines (2012, background): “…at the landscape scale can be a confounding factor, as prolonged periods of catastrophic disturbance reduce the proportion of slow-growing, long-lived trees to favor faster-growing, shorter-lived individuals (Black et al., 2008; see also the case of Douglas fir reported in Poage et al., 2009).”
Detecting evidence for CO2 fertilization from tree ring studies: The potential role of sampling biases (2012, background): “Finally, some tree ring studies find patterns that are consistent with a growth– longevity trade-off [cf. Black et al., 2008; Johnson and Abrams, 2009], but as the sampled trees were still alive and not taken randomly, but from the biggest individuals, these patterns may also have been resulting…”