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That fire has been an important ecological factor in the grassland biome of South Africa long before colonial times has been well documented (Hall, this volume, chapter 3). Both natural (other than those caused by man) and anthropogenic fires have occurred widely and for many hundreds of centuries in the grasslands and have had an important influence in shaping these grasslands as we know them today. With intensification of rural settlement since colonization, anthropogenic fires became first a common feature of the grassland landscape and then a tool well entrenched in the management options of the grazier. Thus much research on fire in grassland in recent times has had a strong management orientation which accounts for the management emphasis evident in this chapter.
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Tainton, N.M., Mentis, M.T. (1984). Fire in Grassland. In: de Booysen, P.V., Tainton, N.M. (eds) Ecological Effects of Fire in South African Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69805-7_6
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