Unusual disturbance: forest change following a catastrophic debris flow in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Trees are often well adapted to periodic physical disturbances such as fires or floods. However, I investigated forest response to an extremely unusual disturbance event. Following heavy rain in Ju...

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