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Dating of past fires based on distribution of the date of mortality of all cross-dated pre-fire trees as indicated by the outermost tree ring formed on each stem (n=500). All the depressions separating the bell-shaped distribution of pre-fire trees (highlighted by dotted curves) correspond to fire events (arrows indicate scar-dated fires). The graph illustrates the temporal sequence of successive bell-shaped distributions corresponding to all the fire events.
