Declarations
We gratefully acknowledge the numerous technicians, undergraduate students, and graduate students at Louisiana State University and the University of Georgia for their efforts collecting data and verifying gobbles. M. A. Vukovich, USDA Forest Service, was especially instrumental in fieldwork and data management. Funding and support were provided by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, the United States Department of Energy – Savannah River, the USDA Forest Service – Savannah River, the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, and the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. This manuscript is partially based on work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture, McIntire-Stennis project number 1005302.