Bailey Mclaughlin

Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in the Forest Inventory and Analysis Database of the United States of America (FIA) at https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/fia-datamart, in the PLANTS Database of the USDA NRCS at https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/, and in a GitHub repository at https://github.com/wpetry/USTreeAtlas?tab=readme-ov-file#readme.

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