Omer C. Stewart’s research while affiliated with University of Colorado and other places

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Barriers to Understanding the Influence of Use of Fire by Aborigines on Vegetation
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August 2014

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Fire Ecology

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... Los registros históricos a nivel mundial no dejan lugar a dudas de que los pueblos primitivos de caza y recolección, así como los antiguos granjeros y pastores, por varias razones, incendiaron frecuente e intencionalmente a casi toda la vegetación que se pudiera quemar a su alrededor (Stewart, 2014). El uso del fuego en la agricultura, la ganadería y la silvicultura tradicionales es de gran importancia para los agricultores de los países en desarrollo, donde esta práctica se considera continuamente la principal causa de los incendios forestales. ...

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Diagnóstico del uso del fuego en actividades agrícolas en el sitio Estancia Vieja, cantón Portoviejo, Manabí, Ecuador
Barriers to Understanding the Influence of Use of Fire by Aborigines on Vegetation

Fire Ecology

... Shade-intolerant/fire-adapted open canopy taxa provided important food supplies (e.g., acorns, a wide variety of small-seeded grasses and roots, and young, fresh browse for deer) for Native Americans in California, while shadeintolerant/fire-sensitive close canopy taxa typically did not (Jordan, 2003;Kroeber, 1925;Lewis, 1973;Lightfoot and Parrish, 2009). While is it clear from ethnographic records that such practices occurred regularly and were widespread (Gassaway, 2009;Jordan, 2003;Lewis, 1973;Stewart, 2014;Voegelin, 1938), the challenge is distinguishing human-induced changes in natural vegetation from climatically-induced changes in the absence of agricultural taxa such as Zea mays (Bowman et al., 2011). ...

Barriers to Understanding the Influence of Use of Fire by Aborigines on Vegetation, with an Introduction by M. Kat Anderson
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  • August 2014

Fire Ecology