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The vegetation of the Karamoja District, Uganda: an illustration of biological factors in tropical ecology

From the text...'In the same paper Phillips briefly discussed the effects of fire, a subject of great complexity, and most of the results listed by him are deleterious. In Karamoja, the fires which are started on the mountains by the honey collectors, who use smoke to overcome…
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Year: 1943
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Effects, Fuels, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, birds, Butyrospermum parkii, distribution, East Africa, forest management, grass fires, grasses, grasslands, grazing, insects, mountains, seeds, shrubs, soils, trees, Uganda

Possible causes of blowup fires

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Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: blowups, catastrophic fires, fire control, fire danger rating, fire suppression, rate of spread, spot fires, statistical analysis, wind