====== Anthropic introduction of fire ======


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//Extract from the Paramo Fire Atlas displaying spatial and temporal distribution of anthropic introduction of fires from 1985 to 2022. (Obando-Cabrera et al., 2025)//

Surrounding communities rely on the paramo areas for [[cultivation]] and [[13|livestock]] farming. Fire is a main tool of land use conversion. Converting the land for these purposes causes significant ecosystemic pressure, through habitat loss, introduction of invasive species, and agricultural runoff, which contribute to [[26|soil]] structure disturbances and impact [[08|groundwater]] availability (Correa et al., 2020).


__References__\\ \\ 
Correa, A., Ochoa-Tocachi, B. F., Birkel, C., Ochoa-Sanchez, A., Zogheib, C., Tovar, C., Buytaert ,W. (2020) 'A concerted research effort to advance the hydrological understanding of tropical páramos', //Hydrological Processes//, 34(24), pp. 4609-4626. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13904 (Accessed 12 January 2026).
\\ \\ Obando-Cabrera, L., Diaz-Timote, J. J., Bastarrika, A., Celiz, N., Hantson, S. (2025) 'The Paramo Fire Atlas: quantifying burned area and trends across the Tropical Andes', Environmental Research Letters, 20(5). Available at: DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc8ba (Accessed 12 Jan 2026).