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Burning the Seasonal Mosaic: Preventative Burning Strategies in the Wooded Savanna of Southern Mali
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“In flammable biomes, such as tropical savannas and seasonally dry forests, there is often a conflict between fire regimes that support biodiversity and those regimes designed to reduce fire risk to humans and their infrastructure or that support livelihoods such as pastoralism and forestry (Laris, 2002).”
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GRASSLANDS ABLAZE: VEGETATION BURNING BY RURAL PEOPLE IN PONDOLAND, SOUTH AFRICA
Kepe, T. (2005) · South African Geographical Journal · doi:10.1080/03736245.2005.9713821 · Cited by 40
Russell‐Smith, J., Djoeroemana, S., Maan, J., & Pandanga, P. (2006) · Human Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10745-006-9065-6 · Cited by 43
“Similar recent experience in west African savannas, where attempts have been made in various countries to proscribe burning, has also proven to be counterproductive (Laris, 2002).”
BackgroundZida, D., Sanou, L., Diawara, S., Savadogo, P., & Thiombiano, A. (2020) · Acta Oecologica · doi:10.1016/j.actao.2020.103607 · Cited by 39
Spatial and temporal scale issues in determining biomass burning regimes in Bolivia and Peru
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“…science priorities encourage mapping fire activity in the biomes of the lowland dry tropics (e.g. Langaas 1992, Eva and Lambin 1998a, b, 2000, Laris 2002, Phulpin 2222 A. V. Bradley and A. C. Millington S ca les a n d D y n a m ics in O b servin g th e E n viro n m en t 2 2 2 3 et al. 2002,…”
BackgroundHow changing fire management policies affect fire seasonality and livelihoods
Humphrey, G. J., Gillson, L., & Ziervogel, G. (2020) · AMBIO · doi:10.1007/s13280-020-01351-7 · Cited by 39
“Moreover, satellites that detect fires on the earth surface have been pivotal in corroborating the spatial and temporal patterns of indigenous peoples’ fire use (Bowman 1998; Laris 2002).”
BackgroundInfluentialTrauernicht, C., Murphy, B. P., Tangalin, N., & Bowman, D. M. J. S. (2013) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.460 · Cited by 38
“…systems (Jones 1969; Bowman and Panton 1993; Head 1996; Russell-Smith et al. 1997; Yibarbuk et al. 2001; Whitehead et al. 2003; Murphy and Bowman 2007; Bird et al. 2008; Fletcher and Thomas 2010), a dynamic that is increasingly apparent elsewhere (Laris 2002; Rodriguez 2007; Archibald et al. 2012).”
BackgroundInfluentialIs Anthropogenic Pyrodiversity Invisible in Paleofire Records?
Roos, C. I., Williamson, G. J., & Bowman, D. M. J. S. (2019) · Fire · doi:10.3390/fire2030042 · Cited by 37
“In addition to impacts on food webs, the spatial pattern of fires has impacts on fire sensitive species, fire refugia, and fire protection [11,18,58].”
BackgroundInfluentialSchmerbeck, J., Kohli, A., & Seeland, K. T. (2014) · Forest Policy and Economics · doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2014.09.012 · Cited by 36
“, 2014) or unofficially (maybe even illegally) by local people (e.g. Andersen et al., 2005; Laris, 2002), as well as for fire management purposes to secure lives andproperty (Price andBradstock, 2012).”
BackgroundSletto, B., & Rodríguez, I. (2012) · Journal of Environmental Management · doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.10.041 · Cited by 36
“As a result, a global effort is now underway to reintroduce indigenous burning practices as a permanent tool in landscape management (Lewis, 1989; Puyravaud et al., 1995; MarsdenSmedley and Kirkpatrick, 2000; Moore et al., 2002; Laris, 2002; Sonko et al., 2002; Jurvélius, 2004; Mistry et al., 2005; Sharma, 2006; Pinto…”
BackgroundRodríguez, I. (2004) · Interciencia · Cited by 36
Takahata, C., Amin, R., Sarma, P. K., Banerjee, G., Oliver, W., & Fa, J. E. (2009) · Environmental Management · doi:10.1007/s00267-009-9411-8 · Cited by 36
“Current developments in remote sensing technology and geographic information systems (GIS) permit more sophisticated investigations of fire frequency and distribution through the use of satellite fire detection figures (Eva and Lambin 2000; França and Setzer 2001; Laris 2002).”
BackgroundEffects of landscape pattern and vegetation type on the fire regime of a mesic savanna in Mali
Laris, P. S., Jo, A., & Wechsler, S. P. (2018) · Journal of Environmental Management · doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.08.091 · Cited by 33
Self-citationTraditional Fire Knowledge: A Thematic Synthesis Approach
Varela, C. V., Martínez-Navarro, J. M., & González, L. A. (2022) · Fire · doi:10.3390/fire5020047 · Cited by 33
Greenler, S. M., Lake, F. K., Tripp, W., McCovey, K., Tripp, A., Hillman, L., Dunn, C. J., Prichard, S. J., Hessburg, P. F., Harling, W., et al. (2024) · Ecological Applications · doi:10.1002/eap.2973 · Cited by 36
Borges, S., Eloy, L., Schmidt, I. B., Barradas, A. C. S., & dos Santos, I. A. (2016) · Ambiente & sociedade · doi:10.1590/1809-4422asoc20150020r1v1932016 · Cited by 34
“Traditional fire use strategies have a central role in the maintenance of spatial heterogeneity and important ecological processes, as demonstrated for savannas in Africa (BROCKETT et al., 2001; Laris, 2002) and Australia (RUSSELL-SMITH et al., 1997; BIRD et al., 2008).”
BackgroundRodríguez, I. (2017) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-09758-220424 · Cited by 31
Indigenous burning shapes the structure of visible and invisible fire mosaics
Greenwood, L., Bird, R. B., & Nimmo, D. G. (2021) · Landscape Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10980-021-01373-w · Cited by 32
“2016), Mali (Laris 2002), and Australia (Bliege Bird et al.”
BackgroundGlobal decline in subsistence-oriented and smallholder fire use
Smith, C., Perkins, O., & Mistry, J. (2022) · Nature Sustainability · doi:10.1038/s41893-022-00867-y · Cited by 36
Siljander, M. (2009) · International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · doi:10.1016/j.jag.2009.06.004 · Cited by 31
Zhang, Z., Feng, Z., Zhang, H., Zhao, J., Yu, S., & Du, W. (2017) · International Journal of Wildland Fire · doi:10.1071/wf16026 · Cited by 32
“In 53 Africa, widespread fires frequently burn the savanna each year, and most fires occur in dry 54 seasons (June–August) (Danthu et al., 2003; Laris, 2002; Mbow et al., 2000; Reid et al., 2000; 55 Sheuyange et al., 2005; Snyman, 2004).”
BackgroundFire regimes and variability in aboveground woody biomass in miombo woodland
Saito, M., Luyssaert, S., Poulter, B., Williams, M., Ciais, P., Bellassen, V., Ryan, C. M., Yue, C., Cadule, P., & Peylin, P. (2014) · Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences · doi:10.1002/2013jg002505 · Cited by 31
“For instance, seasonal mosaic burning reduces fire damage in the late dry season and thus may be an effective fire management strategy [Laris, 2002; Laris and Wardell, 2006].”
BackgroundReligious Affiliation Modulates Weekly Cycles of Cropland Burning in Sub-Saharan Africa
Pereira, J. M. C., Oom, D., Pereira, P., Turkman, M. A. A., & Turkman, K. F. (2015) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139189 · Cited by 31
“A study of preventative landscape burning in Mali [35] found that cropland fires were very well contained, with only a doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139189.g004 PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0139189 September 29, 2015 9 / 13 small number of farmers interviewed reporting that fires lit to prepare fields for agricultu…”
BackgroundInfluentialDeterminants of fire intensity in working landscapes of an African savanna
Laris, P. S., Jacobs, R., Koné, M., Dembélé, F., & Rodrigue, C. M. (2020) · Fire Ecology · doi:10.1186/s42408-020-00085-x · Cited by 29
“In general, people set fires just prior when grasses are completely dry (Laris 2002; Le Page et al 2010).”
BackgroundSelf-citationHuman Fire Use and Management: A Global Database of Anthropogenic Fire Impacts for Modelling
Millington, J. D. A., Perkins, O., & Smith, C. (2022) · Fire · doi:10.3390/fire5040087 · Cited by 33
Diouf, A., Barbier, N., Lykke, A. M., Couteron, P., Deblauwe, V., Mahamane, A., Saadou, M., & Bogaert, J. (2012) · Applied Vegetation Science · doi:10.1111/j.1654-109x.2012.01187.x · Cited by 29
“2010), and some authors have criticized the frequent ‘early fire for all’ concept for savanna management (Laris 2002; Parr & Andersen 2006).”
BackgroundIntegrating Land Change Science and Savanna Fire Models in West Africa
Laris, P. (2013) · Land · doi:10.3390/land2040609 · Cited by 27
Self-citationSousa, J. V., Çinar, C., Carmo, M., & Malagodi, M. A. S. (2022) · Natural Hazards · doi:10.1007/s11069-022-05460-2 · Cited by 29
“2020) in what are considered cycles of forest regeneration in systems of shifting or swidden agriculture (e.g., Sivaramakrishnan 1996; Laris 2002; Tsing 2005; Temudo et al.”
BackgroundCustomary Fire Regimes and Vegetation Structure in Gabon’s Bateke Plateaux
Walters, G. M. (2012) · Human Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10745-012-9536-x · Cited by 30
“…g.walters@ucl.ac.uk Generally, whether using field experiments, social surveys, modelling, or satellite techniques, studies focus on fire frequencies which are annual or less (Beckage et al. 2009; Butz 2009; Hanan et al. 2008; Hoffmann 1999; Laris 2002; Mbow et al. 2000; Sheuyange et al. 2005).”
BackgroundInfluentialDuncan, B. W., Schmalzer, P. A., Breininger, D. R., & Stolen, E. D. (2015) · Ecological Modelling · doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.07.013 · Cited by 26
“…supporting (Bradstock et al., 2005; Breininger et al., 2014b; Brockett et al., 2001; Fuhlendorf et al., 2006; King et al., 2008, 2006; Laris, 2002; Menges, 2007; Nimmo et al., 2013; Parr and Brockett, 1999; van Wilgen et al., 2007; Wimberly, 2006) with fewer questioning (Davies et…”
BackgroundFire management and climate variability: Challenges in designing environmental regulations
Monzón-Alvarado, C., Waylen, P. R., & Keys, E. (2014) · Land Use Policy · doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.03.003 · Cited by 25
“They also report that following the imposed calendar affects their burning objectives (Carmenta et al., 2013), may reduce farmer’s economic alternatives relying on a specific fire regime (Eriksen, 2007), and compromises the natural resources by creating even larger wildfires (Laris, 2002).”
BackgroundColombaroli, D., van der Plas, G., Rucina, S. M., & Verschuren, D. (2016) · Quaternary International · doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2016.06.028 · Cited by 25
Melo, M., & Saito, C. H. (2012) · Society & Natural Resources · doi:10.1080/08941920.2012.713087 · Cited by 23
“Laris (2002) found that people from several villages in Mali, West Africa, set fires at the beginning of the dry season to avoid extensive burning during subsequent periods of the same season.”
BackgroundWalters, G. M. (2010) · UCL Discovery (University College London) · Cited by 22
The Human Ecology and Geography of Burning in an Unstable Savanna Environment
Laris, P. S., Caillault, S., Dadashi, S., & Jo, A. (2015) · Journal of Ethnobiology · doi:10.2993/0278-0771-35.1.111 · Cited by 22
Self-citationRegional action plan for the conservation of western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) 2020–2030
IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group (2020) · doi:10.2305/iucn.ch.2020.ssc-rap.2.en · Cited by 23
“In the woodland-grassland regions of West Africa, fire has played a historical part in shaping ecosystems in the more arid biomes (Laris 2002; Giglio et al. 2006) – the West African savanna mosaic landscapes in Mali, Senegal, and the northern regions of Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea.”
BackgroundCaillault, S., Ballouche, A., & Delahaye, D. (2014) · Geographical Journal · doi:10.1111/geoj.12074 · Cited by 22
Traditional fire-use, landscape transition, and the legacies of social theory past
Coughlan, M. R. (2015) · AMBIO · doi:10.1007/s13280-015-0643-y · Cited by 23
“For example, several studies combine ethnographic and ethnohistorical insights on traditional fire-use with spatially explicit environmental data (Laris 2002; Black et al. 2006; Natcher et al. 2007; Bird et al. 2008; Laris 2011; Bird et al. 2012; Johansson et al. 2012).”
BackgroundSteppe Fires in Conditions the Regime of Reserve and Under Changing Anthropogenic Impacts
Павлейчик, В. М., & Chibilev, A. A. (2018) · Geography and Natural Resources · doi:10.1134/s1875372818030046 · Cited by 22
African Fire Cultures, Cattle Ranching, and Colonial Landscape Transformations in the Neotropics
Sluyter, A., & Duvall, C. S. (2015) · Geographical Review · doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2015.12138.x · Cited by 22
“The literature on such anthropogenic fire regimes, herein termed “fire cultures” in order to signal that they encompass the knowledge, motives, and beliefs of particular social groups, nonetheless remains relatively modest relative their diversity and environmental impacts (Mbow and others 2000; Laris 2002; Bowman and…”
InfluentialPerkins, O., Matej, S., Erb, K., & Millington, J. D. A. (2022) · Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling · doi:10.18174/sesmo.18130 · Cited by 24
“, 2019), to manage fuel loads in fire prone environments (Laris, 2002), and as a weapon in land tenure disputes (Suyanto et al.”
BackgroundTrauernicht, C., Murphy, B. P., Prior, L. D., Lawes, M. J., & Bowman, D. M. J. S. (2016) · Ecosystems · doi:10.1007/s10021-016-9973-2 · Cited by 21
“…burning in the early dry season (EDS) before fuels completely cure to reduce the occurrence and extent of large, high-intensity fires that commonly occur in the late dry season (LDS; Gill and others 2000; Laris 2002; van Wilgen and others 2008; Bliege Bird and others 2012; Murphy and others 2015).”
BackgroundInfluentialClassifying physical geographic features: the case of maninka farmers in southwestern mali
Duvall, C. S. (2008) · Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0467.2008.00297.x · Cited by 21
“Farmers follow a complex land management system to maximize crop security under constraint of the region’s variable precipitation regime (Samaké et al. 1987; Koenig et al. 1998; Laris 2002).”
BackgroundInfluentialTemudo, M. P., Oom, D., & Pereira, J. M. C. (2020) · Applied Geography · doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102203 · Cited by 20
Rodríguez, I., Inturias, M., Masay, E., & Peña, A. (2023) · Environmental Science & Policy · doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2023.06.005 · Cited by 20
“Each of these organizations has supported CICOL in different ways, giving rise to a process of dialogues of knowledge (Leff, 2004) about fire management.”
BackgroundAn Anthropogenic Escape Route from the “Gulliver Syndrome” in the West African Savanna
Laris, P. S. (2008) · Human Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10745-008-9203-4 · Cited by 21
“As such, recently fallowed plots are often grazed by cattle and other animals ( Laris 2002; Fairhead and Leach 1996).”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationFerreira, B. H. D. S., Oliveira, M. D. R., Fernandes, R. A. M., Nacagava, V. A. F., Arrua, B. A., Ribeiro, D. B., Pott, A., Damasceno‐Júnior, G. A., & Garcia, L. C. (2023) · Journal of Environmental Management · doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117665 · Cited by 19
Challenging the concept of Aboriginal mosaic fire practices in the Lake Eyre Basin
Kimber, R. G., & Friedel, M. H. (2015) · The Rangeland Journal · doi:10.1071/rj15057 · Cited by 18
Framing Divination: A Mande Divination Expert and The Occult Economy
Jansen, J. (2009) · Africa · doi:10.3366/e0001972008000636 · Cited by 18
Fire mosaics in south-west Australian forest landscapes
Burrows, N., Stephens, C. W., Wills, A., & Densmore, V. S. (2021) · International Journal of Wildland Fire · doi:10.1071/wf20160 · Cited by 18
“Some argue that it benefits the biota (e.g. Brockett et al. 2001; Letnic 2001; Laris 2002; O’Reilly et al. 2006; Penman et al. 2007; Watson et al. 2012; Sitters et al. 2015; Pianka 2017), while others argue that managing for ‘pyro-diversity’ has short-comings (e.g. Bradstock et al. 2005; Parr and…”
BackgroundViability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management
Knowles, T., Stevens, N., Amoako, E. E., Armani, M., Barbosa, C., Beale, C. M., Bond, W. J., Chidumayo, E. N., Mustaphi, C. J. C., Dintwe, K., et al. (2025) · Nature Sustainability · doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01490-9 · Cited by 18
“In most of West Africa, thousands of people are voluntarily involved in an annual effort to burn patches of annual grasses in the EDS to fragment the landscape and prevent the spread of later fires 65,66 .”
Self-citationSá, A. C. L., Pereira, J. M. C., & Gardner, R. H. (2007) · International Journal of Remote Sensing · doi:10.1080/01431160601009672 · Cited by 18
“Burning practices to prepare fields for agriculture, to improve pasture land, to drive game for hunting or just to prevent late season, damaging fires, are common (Laris 2002 ).”
BackgroundEames, T., Vernooij, R., Russell‐Smith, J., Yates, C., Edwards, A., & van der Werf, G. R. (2023) · International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · doi:10.1016/j.jag.2023.103575 · Cited by 21
Sletto, B. (2011) · Geoforum · doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.12.006 · Cited by 17
A global behavioural model of human fire use and management: WHAM! v1.0
Perkins, O., Kasoar, M. R., Voulgarakis, A., Smith, C., Mistry, J., & Millington, J. D. A. (2024) · Geoscientific model development · doi:10.5194/gmd-17-3993-2024 · Cited by 28
“Anthropogenic fire management strategies are similarly diverse, spanning preventative strategies such as indigenous patch burning (Laris, 2002) to fire exclusion through industrial fire extinguishing (Eloy et al., 2019).”
Brama, O., Sanou, L., Koala, J., & Hien, M. (2022) · BOIS & FORETS DES TROPIQUES · doi:10.19182/bft2022.352.a36935 · Cited by 15
Laris, P. S., & Dembélé, F. (2011) · Journal of Land Use Science · doi:10.1080/1747423x.2011.597444 · Cited by 14
“Fallow lands tended to burn early (before 1st January) and wooded areas burned later (Laris 2002).”
BackgroundSelf-citationCaillault, S., Laris, P. S., Fleurant, C., Delahaye, D., & Ballouche, A. (2020) · Fire · doi:10.3390/fire3040062 · Cited by 13
“Specifically, we explore how generalized burning practices that people exhibit can alter the patch‐mosaic fire regimes that have been well documented in numerous humanized savannas [18,23,27,28].”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationWest African Environmental Narratives and Development‐Volunteer Praxis*
Moseley, W. G., & Laris, P. S. (2008) · Geographical Review · doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2008.tb00288.x · Cited by 16
Self-citationImpacts of burning on soil trace gas fluxes in two wooded savanna sites in Burkina Faso
van Straaten, O., Doamba, S. W. M. F., Corre, M. D., & Veldkamp, E. (2019) · Journal of Arid Environments · doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.02.013 · Cited by 14
Symbols, not data: rare trees and vegetation history in Mali
Duvall, C. S. (2003) · Geographical Journal · doi:10.1111/j.0016-7398.2003.00094.x · Cited by 14
“Unfortunately, this assumption often results in recommendations that indigenous land management practices be outlawed or substantially modified by law (Sanogo 1990; Benjaminsen 1993 1997a), even though many aspects of human ecology in Mali are poorly known (Laris 2002).”
BackgroundWalsh, S. J., Evans, T. P., & Turner, B. L. (2004) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-2353-8_21 · Cited by 14
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives
Smith, C., Ainscough, J., Alare, R. S., Croker, A. R., Freitas, K. D., Millington, J. D. A., Mistry, J., Perkins, O., Schreckenberg, K., Seijo, F., et al. (2024) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-14850-290135 · Cited by 19
Restoring fire regimes through rewilding
Plumanns-Pouton, E. S., Bakx, T. R. M., Buitenwerf, R., Espelta, J. M., Moreira, F., Regos, A., Selwyn, M., & Brotons, L. (2025) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.026 · Cited by 15
“For example, many Indigenous groups globally light fires, and these techniques can substantially increase biodiversity and ecosystem function 177–181 .”
Snyder, K. A., Cullen, B., & Braslow, J. (2019) · Area · doi:10.1111/area.12538 · Cited by 12
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“Previous work shows that remote sensing integrated with socio-ecological research can help to elucidate drivers of resource use and land cover change [36–40], identify environmental causes of socioeconomic challenges [41], validate local environmental perceptions [42,43], and produce relevant maps of locally important…”
BackgroundLaris, P. S., Koné, M., Dembélé, F., Rodrigue, C. M., Yang, L., Jacobs, R., Laris, Q., & Camara, F. (2023) · Fire · doi:10.3390/fire6020052 · Cited by 15
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“In many of these ecosystems, human fire use has historically promoted diversity in vegetation structure and species composition (Bird et al. 2008; Kepe and Scoones 1999; Laris 2002).”
BackgroundPyropolitics and the Production of Territory
Cary, M. M. (2023) · Environment and Society · doi:10.3167/ares.2023.140107 · Cited by 10
A biocultural hypothesis of human–environment mediations and biodiversity increase
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“Farmers and pastoralists also maintain an anthropogenic vegetation mosaic through the application of fire (Laris 2002).”
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“Lovett (2003) argues that international conservation initiatives, such as Tanzania’s participation in the Convention on biological Diversity (CbD) and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (rEDD+) are highly influential of its national environmental policies, many of which frame fire as harmful.…”
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Fire and grazing in subalpine heathlands and forests of Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
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Model fires, not ignitions: Capturing the human dimension of global fire regimes
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“Bruning the seasonal mosaic: Preventative burning strategies in the wooded savanna of Southern Mali.”
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“…in biodiversity and habitat heterogeneity (Allan & South-gate, 2002; Bliege Bird et al., 2012; Bliege Bird & Bird, 2021; Bowman et al., 2004 ; Fahrig, 2003; Latz, 1995; Smith, 2005) which may alter the productivity of foraging (Bliege Bird et al., 2008; Bliege Bird & Bird, 2021; Laris, 2002).”
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“Hence, human fire use seems to reduce the FRP of larger unmanaged fires, whether through fuel load reduction or intentional fuel fragmentation (Laris, 2002).”
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“…in maintaining low fuel loads and `̀ control[ing] the distribution, diversity, and relative abundance of plant and animal resources'' (Lewis, 1986, page 45) [see Hudak et al (2004), Kull (2002a; 2002b; 2002c), Laris (2002; 2004), Mistry (2005) on similar patch-mosaic fire regimes elsewhere].”
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“…recorded history have altered such fire regimes for various purposes, such as increasing forage for livestock (Lewis 1964; Shlisky et al. 2009) and protecting areas from more severe fires later in the dry season (Russell-Smith et al. 1997; Laris 2002; Butz 2009; Sletto and Rodriguez 2013).”
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“Africa has been called a ‘fire continent’ (Trollope & Trollope, 1996) because of pervasive anthropogenic fires that burn the savanna vegetation annually (Mbow et al., 2000; Reid et al., 2000; Laris, 2002; Danthu et al., 2003).”
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“…(2010) speaks to the sidelining of Indigenous peoples’ traditional ecological knowledge in state-led fire management, Kull (2002), Eriksen (2007) and Laris (2002) variously describe how state conservation agencies built on earlier colonial policies to prohibit and crim-inalise the use of fire,…”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Laris, P.
- Affiliations
- California State University, Long Beach (US)
- Corresponding author
- Laris, Paul
- ORCID
- Laris, Paul
- Venue
- Human Ecology
- Published
- 2002-06
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 155-186
- ISSN
- 0300-7839 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-9915
- OpenAlex
- W1566010042
- Cited by
- 251
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 4.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Human Ecology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Keywords
- savanna fire management, fire prevention, woodland savanna, southern Mali, rural livelihoods, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity, fire policy, human-nature relationship
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