Fauna, Fire, and Farming: Landscape Formation over the Past 200 years in Pastoral East Pokot, Kenya

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