Diameter increment and growth patterns for individual tree growing in Central Amazon, Brazil

By R. Silva, J. Santos, E. Tribuzy, J. Chambers, Shozo Nakamura, N. Higuchi. 2002

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Are we approaching 'peak timber' in the tropics? (2012, unknown): “036 on the order of just 2–5 m per hectare per year (Kartawinata et al., 2001; Silva et al., 2002).”
Variation in aboveground tree live biomass in a central Amazonian Forest: Effects of soil and topography (2006, background): “However, Silva et al. (2002) studied the growth rates of trees along a topographic gradient in central Amazonia and did not detect a topographic influence on growth rate.”
Demographic and life-history correlates for Amazonian trees (2005, result): “…growth rates vary by nearly two orders of magnitude among species, our average across all species (1.59 mm.a–1) was very close to that reported by Silva et al. (2002), who use growth bands to rigorously measure incremental growth in 272 randomly selected trees in a nearby forest reserve (1.64…”
Inferred longevity of Amazonian rainforest trees based on a long-term demographic study (2004, unknown): “…rates of tree growth can vary markedly among years (Clark and Clark, 1992, 1994) and during the lifetime of a tree (Clark and Clark, 1999; da Silva et al., 2002), but the expectation is that, at least during a relatively long-term study like ours, mean growth rates reasonably approximate…”