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Table 4 Fire scar seasonality in the MBBR for the period 1920 to 2015, where D = dormancy, EE = early earlywood, ME = middle earlywood, LE = late earlywood, L = latewood, dry season fires = EE + ME, and wet season fires = LE

From: Dendrochronological reconstruction of fire history in coniferous forests in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

Forest

Identifiable season

D

EE

ME

LE

LW

Dry season fire scars

Wet season fire scars

Fir

 Number

107

0

19

70

18

0

89

18

 Percentage

100

0

17.7

65.4

16.9

0

83.1

16.9

Pine–fir

 Number

124

0

15

90

19

0

105

19

 Percentage

100

0

12.1

72.5

15.4

0

84.6

15.4

Pine

 Number

84

0

4

74

6

0

78

6

 Percentage

100

0

4.7

88.1

7.2

0

92.8

7.2

All forests

 Number

315

0

38

234

43

0

272

43

 Percentage

100

0

12.6

72.4

15

0

86.3

13.7