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.