Background
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Growing season frost defoliates aspen and reduces growth by 40%
Ancient blue spruce hiding among engelmann spruce
Large trees promote belowground fungal diversity
High overlap of fungi across the range of Douglas-fir
Heading fires consume more fuels than backing fires
Prescribed fire and mastication reduced bark-beetle-caused pine mortality
Fungi benefit limber pine and bristlecone pine
Pine seedlings regenerate close to large deadwood and mature trees
High deadwood loadings decades after spruce beetle outbreak
Medium-sized fires burn less severely than large fires
Variable fire behavior causes greater bacterial and fungal richness