Box plots showing % of all aspen trees dead at select CAFI sites in 2000 and every 5 years thereafter.

• 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.g010

When plot inventory began in 1995, dead trees were not inventoried, but all live trees were tagged and those that subsequently died were inventoried on subsequent dates. The CAFI program included other sites in the inventory program from 1996–2013, but the 12 sites here represent the cohort of sites with the longest sampling history (other than 4 sites first inventoried in 1994 but not included here). Also shown are the proportion of trees with canker at these same sites that we inventoried in 2018.