Declarations
We gratefully acknowledge the numerous technicians, undergraduate
students, and graduate students at Louisiana State University and the
University of Georgia for their efforts collecting data and verifying
gobbles. M. A. Vukovich, USDA Forest Service, was especially
instrumental in fieldwork and data management. Funding and support were
provided by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, South Carolina
Department of Natural Resources, the Louisiana State University
Agricultural Center, the United States Department of Energy – Savannah
River, the USDA Forest Service – Savannah River, the USDA Forest
Service Southern Research Station, and the Warnell School of Forestry
and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. This manuscript is
partially based on work supported by the National Institute of Food and
Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture, McIntire-Stennis
project number 1005302.