Fig. 1

The Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot (YFDP) is located within the central Sierra Nevada (a), within the western portion of Yosemite National Park at the eastern extent of the area burned by the 2013 Rim Fire (b). The YFDP comprised 25.6 ha (800 m × 320 m) surveyed as 640, 20 m × 20 m quadrats (c). Explicit deadwood mapping of wood from the boles of trees ≥ 10 cm diameter and the location of wood from trees 1 cm ≤ diameter < 10 cm was performed within the entire YFDP. Surface fuels in standard classes (litter, duff, 1-h, 10-h, 100-h, and CWD; see the “Methods” section) were measured along planar transects (“Brown’s Transects”) in 2011 and 2014–2019. The shaded base layer is a digital elevation model derived from 1-m resolution lidar. The eastern-most pre-fire transect (2011) was located 20 m west of the permanent transect points used for post-fire (2014–2019) measurements (c). Figure derived from Cansler et al. 2019; their Fig. 1