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From: Revealing historical fire regimes of the Cumberland Plateau, USA, through remnant fire-scarred shortleaf pines (Pinus echinata Mill.)

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The Cumberland Plateau ecoregion (bounded by dotted line) with locations of fire-scar history study sites (triangles). Fire scar records developed in this study, between 2017 and 2019, were located at John’s Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Georgia (JMT); Angel Hollow, Kentucky (ANG); and Savage Gulf Natural Area, Tennessee (SAV). Other comparable studies in the region are discussed within this paper. To the north, shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) study sites are located at McAtee Run, Ohio (MAC), and Hatton Ridge, Kentucky (HTN; Hutchinson et al. 2019). To the west, four separate records were developed from post oak (Quercus stellata Wangenh.) woodlands at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee (AAFB; Stambaugh et al. 2016) and, to the south, two records of historically very frequent fire exist from montane longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) in the Appalachian Mountains at Choccolocco Mountain (CHO) and Brymer Mountain (BRY) (Stambaugh et al. 2017)

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