Figure 4From: Does overshoot in leaf development of ponderosa pine in wet years leads to bark beetle outbreaks on fine-textured soils in drier years? Soil texture and tree mortality in western Montana. This graph shows the percent of the area of tree mortality or tree persistence on each soil texture type for all tree species in all of western Montana, USA between 1998 and 2010. Legend: Striped fill = killed trees, solid fill = live trees.Back to article page