Fig. 5From: Global change impacts on forest and fire dynamics using paleoecology and tree census data for eastern North AmericaEastern North America biomass burning (charcoal index) trends for regions a north of tension zone line, b south of tension zone line, and c entire eastern USA, all smoothed with a 250-year (black) line and shown with 95% bootstrap confidence interval (gray lines) and a linear regression line for data between year 0 and 1700. Panel d is the estimated human population for the eastern USA from year 0 to 2000 (from the HYDE 3.1 global population dataset (Klein Goldewijk et al. 2011))Back to article page