“…It is one of the two longest‐lived tree species in the world, together with bristlecone pine ( Pinus longaeva ), with ages precisely dated around 3,600 years (Lara & Villalba, 1993) and a maximum age likely surpassing 5,000 years (Popkin, 2022). Fitzroya forests are among the most carbon massive (>510 Mg C ha −1 of aboveground biomass) and have the slowest carbon dynamics reported for rainforests in the world (González et al., 2022; Urrutia‐Jalabert, Malhi, & Lara, 2015). Despite their slow carbon dynamics, Fitzroya forests act as an effective carbon sink, especially due to the exceptionally long mean residence time of their wood that can exceed 1,500 years in the Andes foothills (Urrutia‐Jalabert, Malhi, & Lara, 2015).…”