Fig. 5

Diameter distribution of each piece of fallen trees (remaining stump < 1.37 m high) from 2014–2019 in the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot, as well as the post-fire diameter distribution of those pieces that persisted through the Rim Fire. Trees < 10 cm DBH were considered to have fallen as a single piece; wood from trees ≥ 10 cm DBH was mapped explicitly by piece. Colors correspond to those in Fig. 1. Curves are based on the raw diameters smoothed with a Gaussian density kernel. The square-root transformation of the y-axis shows the low frequency but cumulative effects of large-diameter inputs