Incidence of canker infection by DBH class for each ecoregion and as an average across all 88 sites (last column).

• 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; Ogilvie; Ogilvie Mountains; Yukon; alaska range; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250078.g004

For the last column, size classes sharing similar letters are not different at P < 0.05 (ANOVA, F 5,291 = 5.42, P < 0.0001). CK = Cook Inlet, CR = Copper River, RM = Ray Mountains, TKL = Tanana Kuskokwim Lowlands, NOM = North Ogilvie Mountains, YTU = Yukon Tanana Uplands. The absence of size c...