The nature of tree growth and the “age‐related decline in forest productivity”

By J. Weiner, Sean Thomas. 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Allocation, plasticity and allometry in plants (2004, background): “We have argued that the so-called ‘age-related’ decline is actually a ‘size-related’ decline, because the growth rate of trees in large part a function of their size ( Weiner & Thomas 2001 ).”
Age-Related Changes in Tree Growth and Functional Biology: The Role of Reproduction (2011, background): “Weiner and Thomas (2001) compared efforts to identify “the” physiological basis for limitations of tree size to efforts in prior decades to identify the (sole) limit to population growth in populations of organisms.”
SAFETY FACTORS FOR XYLEM FAILURE BY IMPLOSION AND AIR-SEEDING WITHIN ROOTS, TRUNKS AND BRANCHES OF YOUNG AND OLD CONIFER TREES (2009, background): “For example, roots also serve in nutrient uptake, storage, and anchorage (Weiner & Thomas 2001) and have been identified as a weak link in the hydraulic continuum under drought conditions (Jackson et al. 2000). moreover, in conifers the tracheids are responsible for both support and conduction…”
Diameter increment in mature eastern white pine Pinus strobus L. following partial harvest of old-growth stands in Ontario, Canada (2003, background): “However, the link between these changes and growth dynamics remains unclear (cf. Weiner and Thomas 2001).”
Age‐related decline of stand biomass accumulation is primarily due to mortality and not to reduction in NPP associated with individual tree physiology, tree growth or stand structure in a Quercus‐dominated forest (2012, background): “…(i.e. AGB growth relative to the leaf area sustained) decreases with tree age, given that the physiological constraints examined in H1-1 to H1-4 would finally limit the growth of individual trees (Weiner & Thomas 2001); and H1-6: The canopy annual net foliar exchange decreases with stand age.”
The diversity–biomass–productivity relationships in grassland management and restoration (2007, background): “…discussed in terms of species facilitation and competition; i.e., when biomass is relatively low, diversity and productivity increase due to inter- specific facilitation; whereas when biomass accumulates to a certain level, competition leads to lower diversity and productivity (Weiner, 2001).”