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dc.contributor.authorUpenyu Naume Mupfigaen_US
dc.contributor.authorOnisimo Mutangaen_US
dc.contributor.authorTimothy Dubeen_US
dc.contributor.editorBhogendra Mishraen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-12T07:44:12Z-
dc.date.available2024-06-12T07:44:12Z-
dc.date.issued2024-03-28-
dc.identifier.urihttps://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6192-
dc.description.abstractAs the risk of climate change increases, robust fire monitoring methods become critical for fire management purposes. National-scale spatiotemporal patterns of the fires and how they relate to vegetation and environmental conditions are not well understood in Zimba- bwe. This paper presents a spatially explicit method combining satellite data and spatial sta- tistics in detecting spatiotemporal patterns of fires in Zimbabwe. The Emerging Hot Spot Analysis method was utilized to detect statistically significant spatiotemporal patterns of fire occurrence between the years 2002 and 2021. Statistical analysis was done to determine the association between the spatiotemporal patterns and some environmental variables such as topography, land cover, land use, ecoregions and precipitation. The highest number of fires occurred in September, coinciding with Zimbabwe’s observed fire season. The num- ber of fires significantly varied among seasons, with the hot and dry season (August to Octo- ber) recording the highest fire counts. Additionally, although June, July and November are not part of the official fire season in Zimbabwe, the fire counts recorded for these months were relatively high. This new information has therefore shown the need for revision of the fire season in Zimbabwe. The northern regions were characterized by persistent, oscillating, diminishing and historical spatiotemporal fire hotspots. Agroecological regions IIa and IIb and the Southern Miombo bushveld ecoregion were the most fire-prone areas. The research findings also revealed new critical information about the spatiotemporal fire patterns in vari- ous terrestrial ecoregions, land cover, land use, precipitation and topography and highlighted potential areas for effective fire management strategies.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPLoS ONEen_US
dc.subjectNational-scaleen_US
dc.subjectspatiotemporal patternsen_US
dc.subjectvegetationen_US
dc.subjectfire occurrencesen_US
dc.subjectMODIS satellite dataen_US
dc.titleNational-scale spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation fire occurrences using MODIS satellite dataen_US
dc.typeresearch articleen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0297309-
dc.contributor.affiliationDiscipline of Geography, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu- Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; Department of Geography, Environmental Sustainability and Resilience Building, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabween_US
dc.contributor.affiliationDiscipline of Geography, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu- Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africaen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationDepartment of Earth Sciences, Institute of Water Studies, The University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africaen_US
dc.contributor.editoraffiliationPolicy Research Institute, NEPALen_US
dc.relation.issn1932-6203en_US
dc.description.volume19en_US
dc.description.issue3en_US
dc.description.startpage1en_US
dc.description.endpage18en_US
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