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- Title
Climate change-driven forest fires marginalize the impact of ice cap wasting on Kilimanjaro.
- Authors
Hemp, Andreas
- Abstract
The disappearing glaciers of Kilimanjaro are attracting broad interest. Less conspicuous but ecologically far more significant is the associated increase of frequency and intensity of fires on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, which leads to a downward shift of the upper forest line by several hundred meters as a result of a drier (warmer) climate since the last century. In contrast to common belief, global warming does not necessarily cause upward migration of plants and animals. Here, it is shown that on Kilimanjaro the opposite trend is under way, with consequences more harmful than those due to the loss of the showy ice cap of Africa's highest mountain.
- Subjects
KILIMANJARO, Mount (Tanzania); TANZANIA; FOREST fires; GLACIERS; CLIMATE change; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL environmental change; ECOLOGY
- Publication
Global Change Biology, 2005, Vol 11, Issue 7, p1013
- ISSN
1354-1013
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00968.x