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Uganda Atlas of Our Changing Environment - GRID-Arendal

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70<br />

Budongo<br />

Forest<br />

Reserve<br />

Decreased<br />

Fire fronts<br />

and increased<br />

vegetation<br />

I<br />

A study in the Budongo forest –Murchison falls National Park landscape shows that<br />

there has been both woody cover decrease and increase. In areas where there has<br />

been continuous burning, woody cover species have changed from those that are<br />

less resistant to fire to those that are more resistant. Signs <strong>of</strong> fire are evident in<br />

such landscapes (see pictures on next pages). In areas where there has been a higher<br />

control <strong>of</strong> burning, increase in woody cover has been observed.

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