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- Library Collection RecordThe semi-arid savannah environment (SASE) of sub-Saharan Africa are characterized by low erratic rainfall which result to high risk of droughts, intra-seasonal dry spells and frequent food insecurity…Publication Date 2003
- Rainwater harvesting
- River basin
- Fanya juu
- Fanya chini
- food production
- water scarcity
- rainfall
- land use
- subsistence agriculture
- Economic Aspects
- drought
- conservation
- hydrology
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpatial technologies present possibilities for producing frequently updated and accurate habitat maps, which are important in biodiversity conservation. Assemblages of vegetation are equivalent to…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity conservation
- habitat mapping
- remote sensing
- soil fertility
- conservation
- biodiversity
- mapping
- satellite imagery
- national parks
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary The scientific and management perception of artificial surface-water provision has swung like a pendulum from being to the benefit of herbivores, to being to the detriment of many vegetation…Publication Date 2009
- Artificial water provision
- Surface-water management policies
- management
- GIS
- national parks
- monitoring
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- decision support systems
- Kruger National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper explores the physical and imaginative construction of the Zimbabwean [`]lowveld' landscape. A powerful legacy of the colonial encounter with Zimbabwe was the notion that the lowveld…Publication Date 2005
- Zimbabwe
- wildlife
- wilderness
- conservation
- land reform
- landscape
- political ecology
- management
- national parks
- politics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, we asked the Ariaal herders of northern Kenya to answer 'why, what and how' they classified landscape, and assessed and monitored the biodiversity of 10 km2 of grazing land.…Publication Date 2009
- Anthropogenic indicators
- Ariaal
- biodiversity
- Indigenous knowledge
- Grazing suitability
- landscape classification
- Landscape potential
- traditional knowledge
- pastoralism
- monitoring
- grazing
- grasslands
- land use
- Soil Condition
- livestock
- conservation
- management
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouth Africa's moist grassland harbours globally significant biodiversity, supplies essential ecosystem services, supports crop and livestock agriculture, forestry and settlement, yet is poorly…Publication Date 2009
- agriculture
- animals
- biodiversity
- birds
- climate
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- crops
- Agricultural/growth & development
- ecosystem
- environment
- forestry
- insects
- mammals
- Poaceae
- Soil/analysis
- grasslands
- land use
- conservation
- management
- landscape ecology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper uses the concept of sustainable development to examine the utilisation of wildlife resources at Moremi Game Reserve (MGR) and Khwai community area (NG 18/19) in the Okavango Delta,…Publication Date 2005
- Wildlife resources
- Resource conflicts
- Sustainable development
- community-based natural resource management
- socio-economic aspects
- eco - tourism
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAfrican savannas are primarily used as pastures and are subject to changes in climate and management strategies. For sustainable management of these landscapes ecological knowledge on seasonal and…Publication Date 2010
- beta diversity
- Distance decay
- Precipitation gradient
- species richness
- Systematic sampling
- Tree islands
- biodiversity
- savanna
- pasture management
- climate
- management
- sustainability
- rainfall
- monitoring
- conservation
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordHuman land use such as pastoralism may be a key determinant of wildlife populations. We studied the influence of land use on wildlife and livestock in south-western Kalahari, Botswana, during the wet…Publication Date 2009
- Carnivore
- distance
- herbivore
- Mammal
- Ostrich
- savanna
- land use
- conservation
- national parks
- livestock
- pastoralism
- cattle
- species richness
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe examined the relationship between the distribution of Martial Eagles Polemaetus bellicosus (and other large eagle species) breeding on electricity transmission pylons in the central and…Publication Date 2005
- Large eagles
- land management
- habitat quality
- conservation
- South Africa
- birds
- management
- rangeland condition
- landscape ecology
- ecosytem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn previous papers we have considered the optimal mix of biodiversity in semi-arid rangelands, focusing on the steady state. This paper addresses the question of conservation in the optimal use of…Publication Date 2004
- rangelands
- biodiversity
- Managed
- Natural
- conservation
- management
- fire ecology
- grazing
- livestock
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordOf the 70 cases of classical biological control for the protection of nature found in our review, there were fewer projects against insect targets (21) than against invasive plants (49), in part,…Publication Date 2010
- invasive species
- Ecosystem function
- insect pests
- invasive plants
- ecological restoration
- biological control
- natural ecosystems
- Alien invasive species
- insects
- biodiversity
- ecosystem services
- conservation
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge of the success or otherwise of conservation interventions is often locked within localised networks, resulting in mistakes being replicated unnecessarily. The savannahs of eastern and…Publication Date 2013
- conservation
- Evidence based conservation
- Management interventions
- national parks
- protected areas
- savanna
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Knersvlakte in the Succulent Karoo Biome (South Africa) is known for its high plant diversity and endemism. In the course of establishing a conservation area there, we assessed baseline data for…Publication Date 2010
- Aizoaceae
- biodiversity
- herbivory
- Namaqualand
- rangeland management
- Systematic conservation planning
- conservation
- management
- grazing
- sheep
- goats
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study looks at the impact of subdivision and sedentarization of pastoral lands on wildlife numbers and production in a savanna ecosystem of southern Kenya. The study uses aerial counts over a…Publication Date 2009
- land fragmentation
- rangelands
- Maasai
- settlement
- conservation
- land reform
- land use
- savanna
- ecosystem dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- wildlife
- management
- grazing
- grasslands
- socio-economic aspects
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe relative importance of fire and herbivory on vegetation structure has been the subject of much debate in savanna ecology. Fire regime and herbivore numbers are two key variables that managers of…Publication Date 2009
- Carnegie Airborne Observatory
- conservation
- heterogeneity
- LiDAR
- management
- Thresholds of potential concern
- fire
- animal impact
- remote sensing
- national parks
- Kruger National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany existing parks are currently experiencing difficulties in achieving their conservation aims, yet they remain an important option for maintaining and enhancing the conservation of biological…Publication Date 2009
- Effectiveness evaluation
- Criteria and indicators
- Parks management
- Conservation Policy
- national parks
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- conservation
- biodiversity
- ecosystem services
- sustainability
- monitoring
- South Africa
- Canada
- Library Collection RecordIt is becoming increasingly difficult to manage and expand statutory conservation areas (i.e., parks and formally protected areas). Therefore, alternative opportunities for land conservation merit…Publication Date 2009
- Private protected areas
- stewardship
- Gap analysis
- Systematic conservation planning
- conservation easements
- Private land conservation
- conservation
- management
- biodiversity
- land use
- Little Karoo
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe construction and validation of a user-friendly index to measure attitude of landowners towards conservation of Overberg Coastal Renosterveld (OCR), a critically endangered, distinctive grassy-…Publication Date 2005
- landowners
- Perceived benefit
- Willingness to conserve
- Cronbach Alpha
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- grasslands
- conservation agriculture
- land use
- eco - tourism
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe sub-montane cultivation belt, with its so-called Chagga home gardens on Mount Kilimanjaro, was investigated for its Saltatoria fauna. Since these cultivated fields still have the structure of a…Publication Date 2005
- Orthoptera
- East Africa
- biodiversity
- Endemism
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordCompetition and compatibility between livestock and wildlife in Africa has been a point of considerable speculation, with implications for conservation. However, controlled replicated experiments are…Publication Date 2005
- livestock
- Africa
- Dung counts
- Trait-mediated effects
- indirect effects
- conservation
- game farming
- wildlife
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordHabitat degradation through over-grazing and wood collection is especially prevalent in developing countries such as South Africa. As human populations expand and the demand for land increases, the…Publication Date 2005
- Lizards
- ecosystems
- disturbance
- reptiles
- biodiversity
- human impact
- savanna
- Traditional medicine
- South Africa
- degradation
- conservation
- land use
- species richness
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMuch effort in systematic conservation planning has gone into devising measures and algorithms which are efficient at capturing the biological importance of different candidate areas. While cost is…Publication Date 2004
- Priority setting
- Reserve design
- costs
- Complementarity
- optimisation
- Area selection
- ecoregions
- Vertebrates
- Economic Aspects
- conservation
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRecent attempts to streamline the identification of areas requiring immediate conservation attention have resulted in the development of prioritisation procedures that identify areas of biodiversity…Publication Date 2004
- biodiversity
- conservation
- Land cover change
- Land use suitability
- land use
- savanna
- management
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouth African grasslands support a rich flora that is attracting growing conservation interest. Fire has long been used to manage grasslands for livestock production. However, there is very little…Publication Date 2004
- Alpha-diversity
- Beta-diversity
- Long-term ecological research
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- conservation
- management
- species richness
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary Seed dispersal via ingestion and defecation by large herbivores provides a possible aid for ecological restoration of plant communities, by connecting source communities of target species…Publication Date 2005
- seed dispersal
- grazing
- Heathland
- grassland
- conservation
- Indicator Values
- seeds
- restoration ecology
- Weeds
- management
- monitoring
- soil fertility
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGrasslands in South Africa have been extensively transformed and fragmented, but are poorly protected. Commercial afforestation poses a particular threat to grassland biodiversity because areas…Publication Date 2010
- Ecological network
- connectivity
- fragmentation
- agroforestry
- Grassland bird conservation
- grasslands
- conservation
- birds
- fire
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn situ rainwater harvesting (RWH) belong to the promising practices to support sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa facing climate change impacts. However, appropriate indicators for their…Publication Date 2009
- Ecosystem service
- climate change
- biodiversity
- soil and water conservation
- Downstream effects
- ecohydrology
- Soil Condition
- rainfall
- conservation
- sustainability
- soil nutrients
- species richness
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordProduction-oriented research in the second half of the 20th century made impressive contributions to technical developments which helped to meet the food requirements of an expanding world population…Publication Date 2005
- Grassland science
- research priorities
- Tertiary education
- Agro-ecology
- environment
- grasslands
- management
- land use
- biodiversity
- conservation
- socio-economic aspects
- 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 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 RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 1988
- soil
- erosion
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn 1989, the opportunity was identified to create a botanical map series which could be used by authorities to make informed decisions and which would highlight the potential impact significance of…Publication Date 1996
- mapping
- conservation
- vegetation
- Coast
- South Africa
- development
- GIS
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection Record
134 Rangelands
Effective integration of the three main goals of rangeland management - economic gain through livestock production, management of game animals for recreational use, and conservation of biological…Publication Date 1992- rangelands
- biodiversity
- Economic Aspects
- grazing
- livestock
- conservation
- animal impact
- animal production
- management
- fire
- restoration ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSince its beginning about ten thousand years age, agriculture has spread steadily around the world to become a dominant form of land management on all continents. Agricultural practices have affected…Publication Date 1992
- agriculture
- conservation
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe endemic seed plant flora of the north-eastern Transvaal Escarpment (part of the Afromontane Region) is assessed in terms of the region's lithology (mainly rocks of the Transvaal Sequence). A…Publication Date 1993
- grasslands
- endemic species
- taxonomy
- conservation
- Alien invasive species
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWith the scarcity of extensive, pristine land for new nature reserves it has become increasingly important to reconcile man's activities with nature conservation. Midmar Dam, Natal, South Africa…Publication Date 1991
- invasive plants
- conservation
- Alien invasive species
- invertebrates
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany areas of East Africa show signs of misuse of natural resources by man. An improved use of these resources can be made if land use is integrated within the boundaries of a natural ecosystem,…Publication Date 1987
- conservation
- land use
- pastoralism
- agriculture
- ecosystem ecology
- eco - tourism
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWithin the field of conservation there has been increasing concern about the fragmentation and isolation of habitats. Suggestions have been made for the implementation of [`]buffer zones' to…Publication Date 1987
- conservation
- land use
- monitoring
- satellite imagery
- remote sensing
- mapping
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDistribution trends are reviewed among 1808 plant species known to be in the IUCN Red Data Book categories and which occur in the fynbos and karoo biomes of the Cape Province, South Africa. The field…Publication Date 1987
- taxonomy
- biodiversity
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Transvaal Threatened Plants Programme was initiated during 1976. After the publication of the first Threatened Plants Report for Southern Africa during 1980 (Hall et al., 1980) considerable…Publication Date 1986
- taxonomy
- conservation
- threatened plants
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordComputer-based aids have been used extensively to support surveys of threatened plants in Southern Africa. The surveys have shown that by far the highest concentration of threatened plants occurs in…Publication Date 1984
- taxonomy
- endemic species
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlthough soil and forest conservation measures in Africa were reflected in the early legislation of some countries, it was first with the nature reserve and national park concept of the late 1890s…Publication Date 1974
- conservation
- soils
- legislation
- national parks
- ecosystem dynamics
- economics
- 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 RecordFirst page of Land, Food, and Biodiversity Agriculture currently occupies over 40% of Earth's land area and consumes 70% of available freshwater. Production systems have increased food output in…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity
- animal production
- plant production
- Economic Aspects
- ecology
- conservation
- land use
- management
- Library Collection Record1.?Matrix population models capture how variation in vital rates among life stages translates to population dynamics. Analyses of these models generally assume that populations have reached a stable…Publication Date 2011
- modelling
- conservation
- community dynamics
- ecosyetem ecology
- matrix model
- plant demography
- plant population and community dynamics
- population growth rate
- population projection
- projection distance
- stable stage distribution
- transient dynamics
- Library Collection RecordReserve site selection models can be enhanced by including habitat conditions that populations need for food, shelter, and reproduction. We present a new population protection function that…Publication Date 2013
- Reserve design
- Life history-based protection
- Spatial optimization
- 0-1 Programming
- conservation
- planning
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- modelling
- Lopez Island
- United States
- Library Collection RecordI consider the possibility that people engaged in conservation and management of species and ecosystems are experiencing grief related to ongoing loss of species, assemblages, ecosystem integrity,…Publication Date 2013
- grieving process
- Hope
- polarized debate
- restoration ecology
- management
- social aspects
- conservation
- Library Collection RecordQuestion: Can wild ungulates efficiently maintain and restore open habitats?Location: Brandenburg, NE Germany.Methods: The effect of wild ungulate grazing and browsing was studied in three…Publication Date 2011
- conservation
- Red deer
- Fallow deer
- succession
- species richness
- woody plant
- restoration ecology
- grazing
- game
- succession
- grassland
- releves
- conservation
- indigenous encroaching species
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordAgricultural intensification is a major driver of biodiversity decline throughout Europe. Agri-environment schemes governed by EU regulation are a significant tool in combating this decline but…Publication Date 2013
- conservation
- management
- biodiversity
- agriculture
- policy
- grasslands
- Conservation effectiveness
- Conservation Policy
- Farmland biodiversity
- Management contract
- Spatial conservation prioritization
- Zonation software
- Europe