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- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1987-08-01
- southern Africa
- Savory Grazing Method
- SGM
- pastures
- grassland improvement
- rain
- selective grazing
- stocking rate
- controlled grazing
- rotational grazing
- rangelands
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordBoth large ungulates and wildlife tourists tend to concentrate along the Chobe River in Chobe National Park, Botswana, during the dry season causing concern for wildlife habitat and the recreational…Publication Date 2002-07-01
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros
- Aepyceros melampus
- Giraffa camelopardalis
- Loxodonta africana
- rivers
- ecotourism
- tour operators
- tourism impact
- synceros caffer
- game reserves
- wild animals
- national parks
- riparian grasslands
- shrublands
- Botswana
- habitat selection
- habitats
- savannas
- dry seasons
- woodlands
- southern Africa
- recreationists
- buffalo
- elephant
- giraffe
- impala
- kudu
- Library Collection RecordCyperus articulatus L. and Cyperus corymbosus Rottb. were studied in southern Africa and were found to be synonymous. The latter bears laminae, has longer bracts and frequently has less septate culms…Publication Date 2006
- Cyperus articulatus
- Cyperus corymbosus
- southern Africa
- taxonomy
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSutherlandia frutescens (tribe Galegeae, Fabaceae), a popular plant in traditional medicine, is indigenous to South Africa, Lesotho, southern Namibia and southeastern Botswana. It is chemically,…Publication Date 2008
- Biosystematics
- Chemical Compounds
- Ethnobotany
- medicinal plants
- Pharmacology
- southern Africa
- Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) R.Br.
- Traditional uses
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSatellite imagery derived fire history data for the southern Okavango Delta, Botswana from 1989 to 2003 were used to analyse the temporal and spatial distribution of fires and to assess changes in…Publication Date 2007
- savanna
- fire season
- fire regime
- fire frequency
- wetland
- southern Africa
- fire
- fire ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe rich biodiversity of southern Africa has to date been relatively unimpacted by the activities of modern society, but to what degree will this situation persist into the 21st century? We use a…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- southern Africa
- climate change
- land use change
- Land cover change
- Habitat loss
- conservation
- Millennium ecosystem assessment
- image
- CBD target
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study reviewed the distribution of ten common savanna trees in Namibia. Tree distributions were investigated in relation to bioclimatic, topographic and edaphic variables at a national scale.…Publication Date 2006
- biogeography
- climate change
- forestry
- Plant functional attributes
- southern Africa
- Vegetation history
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper revisits the debate over the relative effectiveness of 'conservative' and 'opportunistic' stocking strategies for African pastoral rangelands. The paper is based on a…Publication Date 2006
- rangelands
- cattle
- Pastoral strategy
- stocking rate
- Capital costs
- southern Africa
- Zimbabwe
- pastoralism
- stocking rates
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordVariations in the nature and extent of southern Africa's winter rainfall zone (WRZ) have the potential to provide important information concerning the nature of long-term climate change at both…Publication Date 2007
- southern Africa
- winter rainfall zone
- Quaternary
- palaeoenvironment
- westerlies
- Last Glacial Maximum
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary The effects of fertilization of forage crops vary with soil types, relative levels of fertility within soil type, ratios of available nutrients, crops, and climatic conditions. Increased…Publication Date 1959
- fertilizer
- forage quality
- soil nutrients
- Soil Condition
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary Since the Union of South Africa was founded in 1910, the volume of dairy production and consumption has increased--both in total amount and per capita. This growth is part of the evolution of…Publication Date 1958
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBush encroachment has been recognised in southern Africa since the late nineteenth century. Our review of 23 studies showed that the rate of woody cover change has ranged from ?0.131 to 1.275% y?1.…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- ecosystem ecology
- grazing
- fire
- rainfall
- grasses
- carbon dioxide
- climate change
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThemeda triandra Forssk. is a common perennial grass in southern African grasslands that tolerates low nutrient soils. Establishment of the species into degraded or transformed areas is difficult,…Publication Date 2014
- grasslands
- soil nutrients
- tillers
- restoration ecology
- fertiliser
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- potassium
- Themeda triandra
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study aimed to quantify and evaluate the effects of heavy land utilisation, mainly grazing, on plant species richness and diversity, species abundance, vegetation structure and soil…Publication Date 2012
- communal rangeland
- degradation
- grazing
- plant species rivhness
- Termites
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 1927
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordT. Hoffman, U. Schmiedel & N. JĂźrgens ( eds ). Klaus Hess Publishers , GÄ‚Å›ttingen and Windhoek , 2010 . ISBN 9783933117422 ( hardback). ISBN 9783933117441 (Volumes 1, 2 and 3,…Publication Date 2012
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article.Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSavannahs cover more than 40% of Africa and provide a variety of important ecosystem services. Their productivity is constrained by disturbance and limiting resources. In southern Africa, fine-leaf…Publication Date 2012
- fertilization
- grazing
- Kalahari transect
- Namibia
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- savannah
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSUMMARY. * 1The existing information about the Tertiary geology and elimate of Africa is collated and discussed critically. * 2There is no evidence for a revolution in the climate and fauna of Africa…Publication Date 1952
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSUMMARY The author has attempted a revision of all the African species of Terminalia. She has examined all of the type specimens, except those which were destroyed in Berlin during the recent war,…Publication Date 1959
- taxonomy
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordHypotheses about the relative productivities and impacts of current and officially recommended stocking rates were tested in a case study in southern Africa. They support the view that biased…Publication Date 1997
- stocking rate
- carrying capacity
- Range degradation
- sustainability
- Option value
- modelling
- southern Africa
- animal production
- modelling
- Plant Productivity
- decision support systems
- economics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDuring the last decade a [']new rangeland science 039; has emerged. One of the tenets of the new science is that pastoralists should not adhere to a single conservative stocking rate, but rather…Publication Date 2000
- Capital costs
- cattle
- carrying capacity
- Environmental costs
- modelling
- rangeland
- southern Africa
- stocking rate
- socio-economic aspects
- economics
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impact of ecological factors such as changes in rainfall could lead to large compositional changes in the diverse indigenous flora of southern Africa. A study was therefore initiated to determine…Publication Date 1995
- vegetation
- rainfall increase
- rainfall decrease
- southern Africa
- rainfall
- species richness
- biodiversity
- drought
- grazing
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Integrated System for Plant Dynamics (ISPD) is a comprehensive system in which new and existing data and knowledge are quantitatively or qualitatively used as a basis for range condition and…Publication Date 1995
- Integrated System for Plant Dynamics
- range condition
- grazing capacity
- southern Africa
- Eastern Mixed Bushveld
- grazing
- modelling
- savanna
- rangeland condition
- management
- degradation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 1970
- grasslands
- ecology
- biodiversity
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper investigates the ways in which national and regional policies relate to farming activities and concerns amongst the rural population in an area of southern Africa. The struggle to make a…Publication Date 2004
- Smallholder agriculture
- Rural livelihoods
- drylands
- diversification
- southern Africa
- policies
- subsistence agriculture
- rural areas
- socio-economic aspects
- Poverty
- land use
- land reform
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPresented here are stable nitrogen isotope data from a rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) middens from northwestern Namibia that record a series of rapid aridification events beginning at ca. 3800 160;…Publication Date 2010
- Hyrax midden
- southern Africa
- Holocene
- palaeoclimate
- African Humid Period
- [delta]15N
- Orbital forcing
- Solar forcing
- Geomagnetism
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouthern African grasslands harbour diverse plant communities, and recent studies have revealed remarkable plant-pollinator interactions in this biome. However, there has been no attempt to study…Publication Date 2009
- Breeding systems
- grassland vegetation
- Mutualistic networks
- Plant-pollinator interactions
- Pollination systems
- grasslands
- insects
- ecology
- birds
- disturbance
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordIt has long been understood that as ephemeral landscape features sand dunes are highly sensitive to environmental change, and thus their distribution and the timing of their development may provide…Publication Date 2009
- Paleoclimate
- Paleoenvironment
- dune activity
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordFour major climato-environmental phases have been identified in the Eastern Cape, Plettenberg Bay-Knysna region and Little Karoo between somewhat before ?40 000 cal. a BP and the present: the Birnam…Publication Date 2011
- palaeoclimate
- southern Africa
- Late Quaternary
- Last Glacial Maximum
- Late Glacial
- Holocene
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordA distributed GIS-based hydrological model is developed using GIS and computational hydrology techniques. The model is based on water balance consideration of the surface and subsurface processes.…Publication Date 2003
- Water balance model
- GIS
- Regional hydrology
- southern Africa
- runoff
- soil moisture
- Evapo-transpiration
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpanning the period from 74-58 160;ka, and being broadly coeval with marine oxygen isotope stage 4 (MIS 4), the Still Bay and Howiesons Poort industries represent important phases in the development…Publication Date 2010
- palaeoenvironment
- Still bay
- Howiesons Poort
- Marine oxygen isotope stage 4
- Modern human behaviour
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA 0.6-m-long horizontal core from a stalagmite in the entrance area of Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, a National Heritage Site, has provided a 35 ka record of environmental change. A pollen…Publication Date 2010
- archaeology
- Caves
- dung
- Paleoclimate
- pollen
- Speleothem
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Kalahari Transect (KT) is an International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme mega-transect designed to examine hydrological and ecological patterns and processes throughout the savannas of southern…Publication Date 2010
- grass biomass
- Kalahari
- phosphorus
- precipitation
- savanna
- rainfall
- ecology
- hydrology
- plant production
- Soil Condition
- fertilizer
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe relative abundance and distribution of trees in savannas has important implications for ecosystem function. High spatial resolution satellite sensors, including QuickBird and IKONOS, have been…Publication Date 2010
- Tree cluster
- canopy cover
- SPOT 5
- QuickBird
- Object based image analysis
- NDVI threshold
- savanna
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge of the southern Africa soil carbon pool, its heterogeneity, sources (from trees or grasses), and potential response to climate is extremely limited. In this study the Kalahari Transect (KT…Publication Date 2009
- geostatistics
- Kalahari
- savannas
- Soil [delta]13C
- soil organic carbon
- Stable isotope
- climate change
- savanna
- rainfall
- carbon sequestration
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impacts of climate change, drought and desertification are closely interlinked, and most acutely experienced by populations whose livelihoods depend principally on natural resources. Given the…Publication Date 2009
- adaptation
- policy
- climate change
- desertification
- drought
- pollution
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordUsing a human security perspective, we investigate how the history of land tenure changes has driven sustainability in southern African savannas. The paper examines four countries-Botswana,…Publication Date 2009
- Human security
- land tenure
- savannas
- sustainability
- legislation
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 2009
- savannas
- sustainability
- vulnerability
- policy
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Southern African Savannas Network and the Southern African Vulnerability Initiative used study areas and information from a wide range of sources to assess threats and opportunities to savanna…Publication Date 2009
- savannas
- sustainability
- Environmental change
- policy
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe dominance of dryland environments in the Southern Hemisphere makes the study of these regions of critical importance for the development of regional, hemispheric and global models of…Publication Date 2009
- Quaternary
- Dunes
- palaeoclimate
- Luminescence dating
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBiodiversity conservation is a challenge within developing regions of the world. Landscape heterogeneity is largely directed by interconnected economic and social systems, which are largely driven by…Publication Date 2004
- Avian richness
- Habitat proportion
- KwaZulu-Natal
- land-use
- Landscape metric pattern
- multiple regression
- Socio-economic development
- southern Africa
- biodiversity
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines sensitivity of the Southern African subcontinent to climate change. It shows that the region has particularly sensitive water resources. Aridification of the subcontinent will…Publication Date 1994
- climate change
- southern Africa
- drought
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA methodology is described for the analysis of Holocene charcoals excavated from a rock shelter in the Lubombo Mountains of northeast Swaziland. Scanning electron microscopy was used to compare these…Publication Date 1985
- southern Africa
- Swaziland
- Quaternary
- late stone age
- Holocene
- palaeoclimate
- charcoal identification
- scanning electron microscopy
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Mfolozi and Hluhluwe Valleys of southeastern Africa are representative of a sub-tropical biome and have archaeological evidence for farming settlement spanning more than 1500 years. By collecting…Publication Date 1984
- southern Africa
- sub-tropics
- farming communities
- soils
- plant communities
- site distributions
- iron production
- Environmental change
- conservation
- palaeobotany
- agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis article deals with the most important aspects of nearly twenty years of intensive study of the pollen-and-spore content of Tertiary sediments in some parts of tropical South America, Africa and…Publication Date 1968
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordFrom the time aerial photographs were used in South Africa for the compilation of topographic maps, these maps have included some information on land use. Since the end of the Second World War more…Publication Date 1965
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 1969
- hydrology
- rangelands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn recent years in East and Southern Africa, increasing pressure of Man and domesticated animals on the natural environment has caused a rapid deterioration of soil, vegetation, and water resources,…Publication Date 1969
- degradation
- game farming
- conservation
- Economic Aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBiomass burning is an important ecosystem process in southern Africa, with significant implications for regional and global atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycles. In this paper,…Publication Date 2003
- Savanna fires
- southern Africa
- pyrogenic emissions
- Burned area
- Landsat
- Kalahari
- fire
- fire ecology
- carbon dioxide
- satellite imagery
- Africa