Climate change-driven forest fires marginalize the impact of ice cap wasting on Kilimanjaro

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1013-1023

  Hemp, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpine vegetation; Climate change; East Africa; Erica; Forest fires; Montane; Subalpine cloud forest; Vegetation change; Vegetation zones

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD FOREST; FOREST FIRE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; TREELINE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KILIMANJARO [KILIMANJARO (RGN)]; KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; ERICA;

EID: 27744526685     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00968.x     Document Type: Article

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