1978
DOI: 10.2307/3543665
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The Effect of Fires on the Vegetation in Kainji Lake National Park, Nigeria

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“…The high-frequency of fires in Kakadu means that many animals face fires every year of their lives, rather than fire being a relatively rare event which is faced by a generation every now and again as in temperate and arid regions. Such a high frequency of fires has been suggested elsewhere for the wet-dry tropics (Afolayan 1978, Gillon 1983 and may be typical of substantial parts of the tropics. Because of the high frequency of fire there is no possibility of the successional replacement of species which has come to characterize fire/fauna studies.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 62%
“…The high-frequency of fires in Kakadu means that many animals face fires every year of their lives, rather than fire being a relatively rare event which is faced by a generation every now and again as in temperate and arid regions. Such a high frequency of fires has been suggested elsewhere for the wet-dry tropics (Afolayan 1978, Gillon 1983 and may be typical of substantial parts of the tropics. Because of the high frequency of fire there is no possibility of the successional replacement of species which has come to characterize fire/fauna studies.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 62%
“…The distribution of organic matter in the tropical soil decreases with increasing (Agboola and Omueti, 1982). Jones (1973) found that the equilibrium organic matter content in Nigeria soils (0 to 15 cm) under an established fallow of 1.03 percent from an initial value of up to 2 percent and organic carbon % of the depth (0 to 16) cm is 1.37 and 10-36 cm is 0.41 to 0.50 (Moorman et al, 1981) confirms the study area data in Tables 2 and 3.Vegetation burn have dramatic effects biodiversity, encourages perennial grasses (Afolayan, 1978;Afolayan and Ajayi, 1979;Charreau, 1974). The organic carbon % of the depth (0-16) cm is 1.37 and 10-36cm is 0.41-0.50 (Moorman et al, 1981;Enwezor and Moore, 1966) found organic P to be more than 40 percent of the Total P. The generally low Total P in these soils may be attributed to the low content in the parent materials from which these soils have been formed (Uzu et al, 1975;Ibedu, 1982).…”
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confidence: 60%
“…Isoberlinia tomentosa woodland play vital role in providing shelter and cover for game. The mean annual rainfall is between 1000 and 1200 mm per year and occurs between April and October, with the highest peak of rain in September [28] .…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%