Fig. 4

Theoretical (top) and observed (bottom) trajectories in the sessile oak GIS Coop network. Colored bands dene the target RDI-age trajectories, while the solid lines are an example of actual trajectories. Two particular treatments stand out: the “increasing” treatment, which starts at low RDI and increases with stand age and the “decreasing” treatment which starts at RDI = 1 and decreases with stand age. Note that the stands analyzed are still young (~ 30 years), and that for the purpose of our analyses, the increasing treatments are similar to the RDI = 0.25 treatments while the decreasing treatments are similar to the RDI = 1 treatments (modified from Trouvé et al. 2019)