Fig. 2
From: Fuel dynamics after reintroduced fire in an old-growth Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
Surface fuel loading in the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot, Yosemite National Park, California, USA, in 2011, before the 2013 Rim Fire, and in 2014. Gray box plots within violin plots show median (black bar), interquartile range (25% quartile and 75% quantile; gray box), 95% confidence intervals (black lines within colored areas). Width of violin plots is based on the probability density (colored shaded areas) for the range of observed observations (y-axis). Diameter classes of woody fuels are: 1-hour fuels = 0.63 cm, 10-hour fuels = 0.64 to 2.53 cm, 100-hour = 2.54 to 7.61, CWD ≥7.62 cm. Surface fuels (bottom right) are the combined total of all fuels. Post-fire old = material that persisted as ground fuels through the 2013 fire event; Post-fire new = material that became ground fuel following the fire event; Post-fire total = the sum of the pre-fire new and pre-fire old. Species-specific decay class bulk densities were used to convert estimated volumes to per-hectare biomass estimates. Woody fuel and total fuel data were summarized at the transect scale (n = 99), and litter and duff were summarized at the point sample locations (n = 990) before plotting