Religious Affiliation Modulates Weekly Cycles of Cropland Burning in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Vegetation burning is a common land management practice in Africa, where fire is used for hunting, livestock husbandry, pest control, food gathering, cropland fertilization, and wildfire prevention. Given such strong anthropogenic control of fire, we tested the hypotheses that fire activity displays...

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Main Authors: José M C Pereira, Duarte Oom, Paula Pereira, Antónia A Turkman, K Feridun Turkman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4587943?pdf=render