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Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size

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Nathan L Stephenson, Adrian J Das, Richard Condit, Sabrina Russo, Patrick Baker, Noelle G Beckman, David Coomes, Emily Lines, William Morris, Nadja Rüger, Esteban Alvarez, Cecilia Blundo, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, George Chuyong, Stuart Davies, Alvaro Duque, Corneille Ewango, Olivier Flores, Jerry Franklin, Hector Ricardo Grau, Zhanqing Hao, Mark Harmon, Stephen Hubbell, David Kenfack, Yiching Lin, Jean-Remy Makana, Agustina Malizia, Lucio Malizia, Rob Pabst, Nantachai Pongpattananurak, Sheng-Hsin Su, I-Fang Sun, Sylvester Tan, Duncan Thomas, Phillip J van Mantgem, Xugao Wang, Susan Wiser, and Miguel Ángel de Zavala, 2014-01-14, Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size: Nature.

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Forests are major components of the global carbon cycle, providing substantial feedback to atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations . Our ability to understand and predict changes in the forest carbon cycle--particularly net primary productivity and carbon storage--increasingly relies on models that represent biological processes across several scales of biological organization, from tree leaves to forest stands. Yet, despite advances in our understanding of productivity at the scales of leaves and stands, no consensus exists about the nature of productivity at the scale of the individual tree , in part because we lack a broad empirical assessment of whether rates of absolute tree mass growth (and thus carbon accumulation) decrease, [...]

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Nathan L Stephenson, Adrian J Das, Richard Condit, Sabrina Russo, Patrick Baker, Noelle G Beckman, David Coomes, Emily Lines, William Morris, Nadja Rüger, Esteban Alvarez, Cecilia Blundo, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, George Chuyong, Stuart Davies, Alvaro Duque, Corneille Ewango, Olivier Flores, Jerry Franklin, Hector Ricardo Grau, Zhanqing Hao, Mark Harmon, Stephen Hubbell, David Kenfack, Yiching Lin, Jean-Remy Makana, Agustina Malizia, Lucio Malizia, Rob Pabst, Nantachai Pongpattananurak, Sheng-Hsin Su, I-Fang Sun, Sylvester Tan, Duncan Thomas, Phillip J van Mantgem, Xugao Wang, Susan Wiser, Miguel Ángel de Zavala

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noteStephenson, N. L., Das, A. J., Condit, R., Russo, S. E., Baker, P. J., et al. (2014). Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size. Nature, 1476-4687. doi: 10.1038/nature12914

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