Fig. 1: Effects of growth and biome on species' longevity.

Relationship between species’ radial growth and tree longevity (a) and variation in tree longevity across biomes (b). Lines in the violin plots (a) and the box plots (b) show the median of the groups or biomes. The median and mean tree longevity was 204 years and 296 years (s.e. = 12 years) for angiosperms, and 534 and 717 (s.e. = 47 years) for gymnosperms. Both radial growth and maximum longevity were log₁₀-transformed, and the lines in panel a corresponds to a linear regression. Box plots display the median (central line), upper and lower quartiles (box edges), and whiskers that extend to values within 1.5× interquartile range (IQR). Larger points beyond the whiskers are outliers.