Size Dependency of Post-Disturbance Recovery of Multi-Stemmed Resprouting Trees
Figure 1
Hypothesized shifts in resprout and recovery curves resulting from inclusion of all stems.
(A) Differences in resprout curves that could arise from inclusion of all stems of multi-stemmed trees. Stars indicate the equilibrium size that develops over multiple fire cycles that corresponds to the point at which biomass loss is equal to biomass recovery (i.e., intersects with the 1∶1 line; following [18]). (B) Recovery curves that correspond with resprout curves. (C) Illustration of the transformation of resprout curves to a logarithmic scale. (D) Illustration of the transformation of recovery curves to a logarithmic scale. We assessed shifts in resprout and recovery curves by testing for differences in the slopes and y-intercepts of the log10-transformed relationships between maximum and total size and size recovery.