Once forests have achieved a full canopy, their growth rate declines progressively with age.
This work used a global data set with estimates from a wide range of forest types, aged 20 …

The development of forests over time is influenced by competition for resources among
trees, leading to patterns of size hierarchy. These two aspects–competition and size …

Large trees in plantations generally produce more wood per unit of resource use than small
trees. Two processes may account for this pattern: greater photosynthetic resource use …

The major determinants of productivity in Eucalyptus plantations include the site productive
capacity, local environmental uniformity, and the tree genetics, which impact their growth …

Silviculture focuses on establishing forest stand conditions that improve the stand increment.
Knowledge about the efficiency of an individual tree is essential to be able to establish stand …

Fertilization and irrigation may substantially increase productivity of forests by increasing
stand leaf area index and the efficiency of converting intercepted light into wood biomass …

Salinity-influenced ecosystems are projected to face a tree to stand level growth reduction
as a response to climate change. Although large and mature trees play a central role in …

Growth dominance is a relatively new, simple, quantitative metric of within stand resource
partitioning, while growth efficiency can be used to quantify the efficiency of resource use at …

The principal objective of the study aimed at establishing formal relationships between stand
growth dominance and mode of inter-tree competition for stands dominated by different tree …

Growth dominance within a forest stand refers to the proportional contribution to stand
growth by individual trees in relation to the proportional contribution of the sizes of those …