Natural disturbances such as wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and windstorms are crucial determinants of ecosystem structure and function (White, 1979). In forested ecosystems fire is one of the most important and ubiquitous disturbances globally. Fire plays an important role in driving forest dynamics in many parts of the world (McLauchlan et al., 2020). However, our understanding of fires and their impacts on forests has largely come from temperate forests (

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