Relationships between stand structural characteristics across the 88 study sites.

• Main Authors: Roger W. Ruess (10651781), Loretta M. Winton (10651784), Gerard C. Adams (10651787)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Microbiology; Ecology; Infectious Diseases; Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; smaller-diameter trees; Stand-level infection rates; growth declines; ecosystem function; aspen basal area; Widespread mortality; Tanana Kuskokwim ecoregion; Populus tremuloides; 88 study sites; novel canker disease; disturbance regimes; Widespread aspen mortality; landscape position; canker infection; United States; canker incidence; successional dynamics; Alaskan boreal forests; carbon starvation; modeling canker probability; Alaska Range; summer drought; canker pathogen; 6 Alaska ecoregions; Alaska paper birch; summer vapor pressure deficits; aspen leaf miner outbreak; alaska range; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250078.g002

Mean aspen DBH vs. percentage of trees that were aspen (= relative aspen density) across stands where aspen grew with white spruce, black spruce, Alaskan paper birch, or a combination (A) and aspen basal area vs. mean aspen DBH (B) across study sites.