The Role of Landscape Context in Forests Recovering from Fire

Distance to seed source is often used to estimate seed dispersal – a process needed for post-fire tree recovery. However, distance, especially in mountainous terrain, does not capture pattern (area and arrangement) or scale-dependent effects controlling seed supply and delivery. Measuring seed source pattern could provide insights on how these spatial dynamics shape recovery. Here we provide access to data collected at 71 plots in the Boulder and Bull Fires near Jackson, Wyoming, United States. The data includes information on species-level tree regeneration, terrain, ground cover, and soil nutrients. Additionally, we provide access to the R script, field plot location shapefiles, and post-fire tree cover rasters used to calculate seed source pattern at nested spatial scales (25 m, 50 m, 100 m, 150 m, 200 m, 250 m radii).