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Fig. 2

From: Understory community shifts in response to repeated fire and fire surrogate treatments in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA

Fig. 2

Schematic of one treatment area (n = 3) in our study (2001 to 2016) of plant community change in response to fuel treatments in Green River Game Land, North Carolina, USA, showing the layout of the four treatments (control = C, burned four times = B, mechanical removal two times of stems <10 cm dbh = M, and combination of M and B = MB) and the ten vegetation plots in each. Not to scale. Diagram on the right shows the layout of a single 20 × 50 m vegetation plot, with nested 10 × 10 m overstory and midstory plots and 1 × 1 m understory plots

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