A Unifying Concept for Growth Trends of Trees and Forests – The “Potential Natural Forest”

Changes in the environment will alter the growth rate of trees and forests. Different disciplines assess such growth rates differently, for example, with tree-ring width data, forest inventories or with carbon-flux data from eddy covariance towers. Such data is used to quantify forests biomass incre...

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Main Authors: Mario Trouillier, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Tobias Scharnweber, Martin Wilmking
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/ffgc.2020.581334/full