Forest species have adapted many strategies for dominating an area. I will examine two of them.
Pines take advantage of the opportunities after a fire. They produce large amounts of wind blown seed that sprout with contact with dirt. They have fast growth when they are young and dominate a site for the first fifty years or so after a hot wildfire.
Oaks, on the other hand, are slow growing. They slowly grow under the pines until they reach the canopy, whereupon, they begin to "shade out" the pines. With the help of squirrels, they begin their reign until a hot wildfire or tornado or mankind opens up areas of opportunity for the pines, again.
Enhance existing operational weather networks, observing procedures, and information management systems to fulfill requirements for long-term climate monitoring. NOAA's present in site and space-based observation capability is designed for weather prediction and assessment, not long-term climate monitoring. As a consequence, many critical climate variables are inadequately measured and inadequately archived. Data quality and continuity has been compromised. As a result, the science of global climate change, so critical for the development of sound environmental and economic policy, is being thwarted by uncertain information about critical climate trends.
Photosynthesis is how trees grow, simply, through chlorophyll, trees combine CO from the atmosphere, water from their roots, and use sunlight as the energy source. They employ many different methods of coping in the battle of competition for sunlight, water, and soil nutrients. Lack of any of these can inhibit growth.
Most species try to dominate their sites through all sorts of means. Some "cooperate" with other species to further this goal. Mankind has learned to that he can manage or manipulate his evironment to meet his needs, and goals including monetary ones. This is largely explained by Gifford Pinchot in his "A Primer of Foresty", and other works.