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Vehrs, Hauke-Peter ORCID: 0000-0003-4817-6358 and Heller, Gereon Romanus (2017). Fauna, Fire, and Farming: Landscape Formation over the Past 200 years in Pastoral East Pokot, Kenya. Hum. Ecol., 45 (5). S. 613 - 626. NEW YORK: SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS. ISSN 1572-9915

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Abstract

Fire was a key element of grass savanna formation all over eastern Africa. In the northern Baringo plains, Pokot pastoralists prospered in the nineteenth century, coexisting with huge herds of wildlife. During the twentieth century, the savanna ecosystem changed from a grass-dominated to bush-dominated as a result of growing numbers of livestock and people, which brought not only elephant hunts but also intensive grazing and changing fire regimes. Subsequently, herders diversified their livelihoods, and these land-use changes in the East Pokot highlands led to the spread of the endemic plant Dodonaea viscosa (Sapindaceae) beyond its original habitat. Ingolds' concept of taskscape is applied here to illustrate a temporal, consecutive perspective of landscape transitions against the background of disappearing landscape agents (in this case large herbivores and fire).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Vehrs, Hauke-Peter UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4817-6358 UNSPECIFIED Heller, Gereon Romanus UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-216641
DOI:	10.1007/s10745-017-9926-1
Journal or Publication Title:	Hum. Ecol.
Volume:	45
Number:	5
Page Range:	S. 613 - 626
Date:	2017
Publisher:	SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1572-9915
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language AFRICAN SAVANNAS; LARGE HERBIVORES; DIVERSITY; BARINGO; SAPINDACEAE; VEGETATION; ELEPHANTS; DROUGHT; SYSTEMS Multiple languages Anthropology; Environmental Studies; Sociology Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/21664