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The two examples above underscore the importance of weather extremes in shaping forests. The year‐to‐year ecophysiology of trees in response to daily and seasonal weather is important (see Chapter 4). However, the longer‐term changes in forests often result from big events that may, or may not, happen in any given year. And once a major event has happened, the responses of vegetation and animals can set up patterns in forest composition and structure that continue to shape forests in ways that diverge from trends that would have occurred if the major event had not.