Acknowledgements
This study was funded by the USDA U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. We thank our hardworking field technicians (Hunter Trowbridge, Lucas Bobay, Kali Loughlin, Hannah Wait, Eden Smith and Brandon Maiersperger) and volunteers (Cory Elowe, Mariamar Gutierezz, Beth Rogers) who participated in data collection and kept moral high during cold, rainy days and hot sweltering conditions hiking up the Jefferson Notch Road before it was open for the season. Christine Costello has been integral in assisting our team for several years in permitting access, housing availability, and lab space within the Bartlett Experimental Forest, and without her expertise our work would have been much more difficult. We want to acknowledge that though this study area is now referred to as the White Mountain National Forest and is owned by federal agencies, the land this research was conducted on is part of the cultural patrimony of Abenaki Penacook and other Wabanaki people, before colonization by European Americans occurred in this region. Finally, we want to thank the anonymous reviewers as well as Toni Lyn Morelli for their helpful comments on the final versions of this manuscript.