Diagrams of the fire histories and experimental and plot design.

<p>Fire histories, shown on left, illustrate the date of each fire (red symbol) that occurred over the 10 years prior to the onset of the study in each fire regime (R). The field portion experiment, shown on right, takes place over 6 months from deployment on day 0 to the final collection date in December 2022. Plots and litter bags are classified by fire regime (R), litter load (L), sampling time (D) and collection date. Plots are unpaired and independent despite adjacent placement in table.</p> <p>(DOCX)</p>