Sunday, 15 November 2015

senescence - How well does the radius of a tree correlate with its age?


I'm looking for a cheap non-invasive ways to approximate the age of a tree (a birch). Measuring the radius pops up in the mind as the first alternative. How would one do that? Measure at multiple defined heights?



I'm hoping that I could get some kind of confidence interval for the approximation, so that the data could be used in a scientific publication.


Or is there any reliable DIY radiocarbon dating technique?




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