The Holocene landscape and vegetation history of northern and western Africa. 1 the present pedology page is under construction. They highlight two important points, those of the human impact in large regions and of the fire.
Fire is an important factor for soil and vegetation.
Today not only the intensity of fire increases but there also is a shift to the late fires, which are more more destructive to vegetation and sopil as the early fires. Pomel et al. Pomel et al. Pomel et al. Pomel et al.