The world's dominant trees can be listed according to any factor. Records were kept of trees with superior height, trunk diameter or circumference, canopy coverage, airspace volume, wood volume, estimated mass and age.
The heights of the tallest trees in the world have been the subject of considerable controversy and much exaggeration.
Modern validated measurements with laser rangefinders or lane drop measurements by tree climbers (for example by canopy researchers) have shown that some older tree height measurement methods are often unreliable and sometimes lead to exaggerations of 5% to 15% or more. above real height.
Historical claims of trees growing up to 130 m (430 ft) and even 150 m (490 ft) are now widely viewed as unreliable and attributed to human error.
The following are the longest samples of the top 10 species that have been reliably measured. This table only shows examples that are currently standing
