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A big issue for trees

Nature volume 437, pages 965–966 (2005)Cite this article

The age of a tree and its size tend to increase together. Disentangling the effects of these two factors on tree vitality is no easy task, but further evidence adds to the view that it is size that matters.

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Figure 1: Lonesome pine.

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