Table 1 Results of generalized additive model.

From: Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA

Response variable

EDF

Ref.df

F statistic

P value

Population

1.86

2.3

8.652

0.00109

Drought

1.00

1

0.462

0.50323

Fuels

1.00

1

0.15

0.70172

ENSO

1.00

1

0.978

0.33235

  1. Results of generalized additive model reporting the estimated degrees of freedom (edf), reference degrees of freedom (ref.df), F statistic, and p value for each variable in the model. Results demonstrate a positive partial covariance between fire activity and population density even when holding all other variables constant, and negligible relationships between fire activity and climate (drought (PDSI) and ENSO), and fuels (AP : NAP ratio).