Urban tree management

Live fast, die young: Accelerated growth, mortality, and turnover in street trees

Urban forest characterized by high growth rates and high mortality rates of young trees. As younger trees growing faster, they are likely to store more biomass. Due to high mortality, however, replanting derived biomass increase was almost on a par. On the aspect of biomass, removal of old tree for replanting does not make sense. Better management strategy beats tree replanting.

Reference

Smith, I. A., Dearborn, V. K., & Hutyra, L. R. (2019). Live fast, die young: Accelerated growth, mortality, and turnover in street trees. PloS one, 14(5), e0215846.