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Excerpt from The Effect of Balsam Woolly Aphid Infestation on Fuel Levels in Spruce-Fir Forests of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Our main hypothesis was that forest fire fuels in spruce - fir forests were increased by balsam woolly aphid attack. Because stand composition and structure both change with elevation (fraser fir importance increases and average tree size decreases from low to high elevations in the spruce - fir zone) (whittaker we organized our sampling in three elevation classes. Elevation has also been shown to influence organic matter production and decay (shanks and Olson 1961, Wilde Decomposition rates are fairly high in these humid mountains.
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