Tending for cattle: Traditional fire management in ethiopian montane heathlands

Ecology and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Johansson, Maria U ^a   Fetene, Masresha ^b   Malmer, Anders ^a   Granström, Anders ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic fire; Erica arborea; Erica trimera; Fire behavior; Fire ecology; Forage shrub systems; Pastoralist land use; Traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BUREAUCRACY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; SHRUB; VEGETATION;

ETHIOPIA;

BOS; ERICA; ERICA ARBOREA;

EID: 84867126728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-04881-170319     Document Type: Article

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