“…Such a result might not come as a complete surprise and it is motivated by the following observation: let T be a continuous linear operator on a, say complex, Banach space E. If, for all x ∈ E and all x ′ ∈ E ′ , the sequence ( x ′ , T n x ) n∈N0 converges to 0 with a certain rate, then the powers T n actually converge to 0 with respect to the operator norm; results of this type can for instance be found in [57], [56] and [26]. Here, we consider an operator T on a complex Banach lattice E such that for all x, x ′ ≥ 0 the sequence (d + ( x ′ , T n x ) n∈N0 has a certain decay rate.…”