Examining historical and current mixed-severity fire regimes in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of western North America.

In all regions, there were highly significant differences between the actual and expected stand age distributions (average ages of dominant trees with no fire exclusion) ( P <0.001, Fig. 2A–F ), indicating that fire was the predominant disturbance prior to effective fire exclusion.

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