Indigenous fire use to manage savanna landscapes in southern mozambique

Fire Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 43-59

  Shaffer, L Jen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic burns; Controlled burns; Fire regimes; Livelihoods; Maputaland; Southern africa; Traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; PROTECTED AREA; RURAL AREA; SAVANNA; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

MOZAMBIQUE;

EID: 77956960797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0602043     Document Type: Article

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