2019
DOI: 10.1659/mrd-journal-d-18-00104.1
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Characterization of Forest Fires to Support Monitoring and Management of Mount Kenya Forest

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“…The temporal heterogeneity of FRIs (Johnson and Gutsell, 1994) reconstructed at Rumuiku suggest that FRI variability is one of the disturbance ecology mechanisms that contribute to the patchy mosaic of montane forest subtype associations and stand structures around Mount Kenya. Multidecadal‐scale burning evident in agroforestry stands in northwestern Mount Kenya produced estimates of fire rotation durations of 87–92 years (Poletti et al , 2019). Northwestern Mount Kenya, which included some patches of indigenous forests, has a drier hydroclimate, is highly modified by human land uses and the total area is significantly larger than the Rumuiku wetland catchment.…”
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“…The temporal heterogeneity of FRIs (Johnson and Gutsell, 1994) reconstructed at Rumuiku suggest that FRI variability is one of the disturbance ecology mechanisms that contribute to the patchy mosaic of montane forest subtype associations and stand structures around Mount Kenya. Multidecadal‐scale burning evident in agroforestry stands in northwestern Mount Kenya produced estimates of fire rotation durations of 87–92 years (Poletti et al , 2019). Northwestern Mount Kenya, which included some patches of indigenous forests, has a drier hydroclimate, is highly modified by human land uses and the total area is significantly larger than the Rumuiku wetland catchment.…”
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“…Fire frequency distributions and quantifications of ‘low‐frequency’ fires, with return intervals longer than several decades, have not been published in previous studies. Fire statistics of the past few decades at lower elevation agroforestry areas in the leeward northwestern area of Mount Kenya provide some insight into spatiotemporal patterns (Poletti et al , 2019). Fires can benefit both Podocarpus and Juniperus forests, leading to nearly monospecific stands, and dominance may also relate to seed germination conditions or local site factors (Sharew et al , 1996).…”
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“…It is determined by subtracting monthly data from specific period such as one year time average and dividing the difference by long term average such as study period e.g 19 years (Jain et al 2015). Findings on study conducted in Mount Kenya Forest showed that most of the Wildfires in the area, which represents high-land region of Kenya occurs during the driest first three months of the year, January to March (Poletti et al 2019).…”
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“…A study by [7] mapped burn scars on Mount Kenya using satellite data to reconstruct recent fire history. Fire has influenced the vegetation in the landscape and some plant species found in the MKFRNP require fire to germinate, establish or reproduce, and total fire suppression not only eliminates these species but also affects the animals that depend upon them [8,9].…”
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