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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 1980-02-01
- recreation
- natural resource development
- domestic animals
- noncompetitive ranges
- goat economy
- overgrazing
- wild animals
- conservation
- desertification
- livestock
- range management
- 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 1981-04-01
- resources
- mulching
- grassland restoration
- economics
- rainfall
- grazing management
- revegetation
- land imprinter
- desertification
- soil
- 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 1981-04-01
- ranchers
- plant succession
- domestication
- consequences
- economy
- competition
- erosion
- overgrazing
- drought
- grassland
- desertification
- livestock
- vegetation
- 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 1982-02-01
- labor
- range management
- funding
- desertification
- land imprinter
- seeding
- social change
- technology
- plant growth
- site selection
- pastoral societies
- animal protection
- government
- revegetation
- grassland
- grazing management
- 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 1983-02-01
- arid zone
- cattle
- Australia
- vegetation
- livestock
- rangelands
- animal production
- meat production
- markets
- agricultural practices
- desertification
- forage
- beef
- 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 1983-02-01
- crops
- irrigation
- silage
- rotation
- steppe
- Kundu
- fodder production
- agricultural practices
- communes
- beef production
- Mongolia
- overgrazing
- grasses
- desertification
- pastures
- rangelands
- range management
- cattle
- China
- sheep
- 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 1991-04-01
- grazing
- range management
- Utah
- fire effects
- fires
- desertification
- Bromus tectorum
- 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 1992-12-01
- theory
- environmental degradation
- desertification
- ecologists
- agricultural education
- ecological succession
- rangelands
- United States
- range management
- 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 1994-10-01
- livestock
- rangelands
- grazing
- ecological succession
- models
- drought
- pastoralism
- desertification
- Kenya
- agropastoral systems
- 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 1996-04-01
- professional associations
- environmental management
- desertification
- conferences
- sustainability
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2000-02-01
- biogeochemical cycles
- desertification
- biographies
- decision making
- biodiversity
- cattle
- range management
- wildlife management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2006-02-01
- China
- range management
- desertification
- grasslands
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1981
- plant succession
- domestication
- erosion
- overgrazing
- drought
- desertification
- livestock
- vegetation
- competition
- consequences
- economy
- grassland
- Ranchers.
- 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 1986-12-01
- soil erosion
- environmental degradation
- land management
- desertification
- deserts
- arid zones
- land use
- China
- semiarid zones
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1982
- labor
- range management
- funding
- desertification
- social change
- technology
- government
- revegetation
- grazing management
- Animal Protection.
- grassland
- land imprinter
- pastoral societies
- plant growth
- seeding
- site selection
- 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 1987-12-01
- range management
- livestock
- rangelands
- Cameroon
- veterinary services
- pastoralism
- history
- Sahel
- water management
- desertification
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1981
- plant succession
- domestication
- erosion
- overgrazing
- drought
- desertification
- livestock
- vegetation
- competition
- consequences
- economy
- grassland
- Ranchers.
- Library Collection RecordThree years of field inoculation experiments were carried out in a central Asian desert to understand the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on the restoration process of degraded…Publication Date 2012-07-01
- desertification
- ephemeral plants
- Gurbantunggur Desert
- mycorrhizae
- reestablishment
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1982
- labor
- range management
- funding
- desertification
- social change
- technology
- government
- revegetation
- grazing management
- Animal Protection.
- grassland
- land imprinter
- pastoral societies
- plant growth
- seeding
- site selection
- Library Collection RecordChanges in soil and vegetation due to livestock grazing are occurring in arid lands throughout the world. The most extreme cases result in desertification, which is seen as largely irreversible,…Publication Date 2011-07-01
- bulk density
- desertification
- infiltration
- perennial grass
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPlant demographic responses to an experimental summer fire were monitored for 12 yr on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, to determine recovery rates of burned plants and evaluate…Publication Date 2008-03-01
- desertification
- grazing
- herbivory
- prescribed fire
- range restoration
- shrub invasion
- Library Collection RecordBare ground abundance is an important rangeland health indicator and its detection is a fundamental part of range management. Remote sensing of bare ground might offer solutions for land managers but…Publication Date 2009-09-01
- classification tree analysis
- desertification
- geographic information system (GIS)
- rangelands
- remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordRangelands have undergone—and continue to undergo—rapid change in response to changing land use and climate. A research priority in the emerging science of ecohydrology is an improved understanding…Publication Date 2006-03-01
- water yield
- range ecology
- range hydrology
- runoff
- aquifer recharge
- desertification
- semiarid
- degradation
- invasive species
- Library Collection RecordA grazing experiment was conducted from 1992 to 1996 at a sandy grassland in the Horqin sandy land, located in the northeastern part of China. The grassland had been grazed by sheep for many years…Publication Date 2004-03-01
- grazing intensity
- species diversity
- desertification
- China
- Library Collection RecordWe compared the herbage standing crop on 31 farms along a rainfall gradient in Namibia (southwestern Africa) in 1997 with the results attained for the same gradient by Walter (1939). We found that…Publication Date 2000-03-01
- Namibia
- environmental degradation
- desertification
- grasslands
- rain
- stocking rate
- biomass production
- overgrazing
- forage
- Africa
- rangelands
- historical records
- grazing
- rainfall
- Library Collection RecordDrought is an ambiguous term, subject to expectation and the weight of emphasis on meteorological, agricultural, hydrological and socio-economic dimensions. Uncertainty associated with the…Publication Date 1999-09-01
- hydrologic data
- water holding capacity
- extensive livestock farming
- desertification
- subsidies
- risk reduction
- soil degradation
- crusts
- ground cover
- semiarid grasslands
- ranching
- soil erosion
- issues and policy
- stocking rate
- vegetation
- drought injury
- dry environmental conditions
- overgrazing
- drought
- range management
- Library Collection RecordA methodology based on remotely sensed data (LANDSAT MSS) was used for rapid assessment of rangelands in the grass and shrub steppes of NW Patagonia (Argentina). We calibrated Normalized Difference…Publication Date 1994-11-01
- Nassauvia
- nassauvia glomerulosa
- normalized difference vegetation index
- festuca pallescens
- desertification
- Festuca
- water balance
- ground vegetation
- remote sensing
- satellite imagery
- indexes
- shrubs
- Argentina
- canopy
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordThe phenomenon of desertification involves the loss of biological or economic productivity and biodiversity in arid and semiarid croplands, pastures, rangelands, and subhumid woodlands due mainly to…Publication Date 2001
- desertification
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordDesertification is the diminution or destruction of the biological potential of land and can ultimately lead to desert-like conditions. It is an aspect of the widespread deterioration of ecosystems…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe chapter discusses the bioclimatic regimes that are generally determined by temporal and spatial averaging of weather patterns. Local weather variations result from these broad geographic-scale…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- climate
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis chapter discusses the value and future of natural desert ecosystems. The goods and services provided by ecological systems and the natural capital that produce them are critical to the…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis chapter describes assessment, which is a one-time process that relies on a statistically valid sampling within a region and monitoring that consists of a series of measurements designed to…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- monitoring
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordEcology and desert ecology have focused on feeding relationships within assemblages of organisms and/or the relationships of plants to the animals that feed on them. Major differences in the…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordDecomposition is a process that releases nutrient materials in the structure of plant and animal tissues to the soil solution where the nutrients are once again potentially available to plants.…Publication Date 2002
- ecology
- desertification
- soils
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is an urgent need for quantitative methods by which actual, as opposed to potential degradation can be mapped using spatially consistent criteria for large regions. This study tested the Local…Publication Date 2008
- AVHRR
- Communal lands
- desertification
- Local NPP scaling
- rangelands
- South Africa
- communal farming
- remote sensing
- degradation
- mapping
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe tested the scaling effects of proximate desertification drivers (i.e. soil erosion, bush encroachment and grazing pressure) on soil nutrients in northeastern Tanzania. We analyzed nutrient…Publication Date 2008
- Desertified landscapes
- Dysfunctional landscapes
- Proximate desertification drivers
- soil nutrients
- Tanzaniadesertification
- erosion
- grazing
- indigenous encroaching species
- desertification
- landscape ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAeolian processes are tightly linked to soil and vegetation change in arid and semi-arid systems at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Wind influences patterns of vegetation and soil within the…Publication Date 2006
- Aeolian processes
- desertification
- Dust emission
- Landscape change
- wind erosion
- erosion
- landscape ecology
- soils
- climate
- ecosystem dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe paper presents results on the use of NOAA AVHRR data for desertification monitoring on a regional-global level. It is based on processing of the GIMMS 8 km global NDVI data set. Time series of…Publication Date 2008
- desertification
- land degradation
- NDVI
- remote sensing
- global drylands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes a procedure for evaluating the desertification risk in threatened areas. The procedure is based on an eight-equation dynamic model of a generic human-resource system that can be…Publication Date 2008
- Desertification risk
- System Dynamics
- Alternative long-term states
- desertification
- modelling
- management
- grasslands
- sustainability
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Objectives: To (1) assess the strength of evidence for the role of termites in vegetation heterogeneity in African savannas, and (2) identify the mechanisms by which termites induce such…Publication Date 2010
- Banded vegetation
- Bush encroachment
- desertification
- Fertility islands
- fire
- herbivory
- Spotted vegetation
- savanna
- Ants
- invertebrates
- Termites
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWind erosion is a major contributor to desertification in the Sahel. Although three effective countermeasures for wind erosion (i.e. ridging, mulching with post-harvest crop residue, and windbreaks)…Publication Date 2011
- erosion
- desertification
- Sahel
- desert grasslands
- management
- soil fertility
- agriculture
- rainfall
- Soil Condition
- Sahel
- West Africa
- Library Collection RecordDesertification has been recognized as a major environmental problem for more than 20 years. Control of desertification has been the subject of many international efforts; it has been a major focus…Publication Date 1998
- desertification
- United Nations
- land degradation
- climate change
- arid zones
- degradation
- economics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary Following the severe droughts in the Sahel and Ethiopia in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which focused the world's attention on drought and desertification, the United Nations system…Publication Date 1984
- drought
- desertification
- socio-economic aspects
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA three-year study was done to determine herbaceous biomass production and its utilization by herbivores in an arid zone inhabited by a largely nomadic population in northern Kenya. The indicator…Publication Date 1998
- grasses
- forbs
- Dwarf Shrubs
- Offtake
- herbivores
- desertification
- nomads
- plant production
- rangelands
- pastoralism
- grazing
- degradation
- decision support systems
- management
- foraging ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDegradation of vegetation and soils in drylands, sometimes called desertification, is thought to be a serious threat to the sustainability of human habitation, but maps of the extent and severity of…Publication Date 2009
- dryland degradation
- desertification
- Communal land
- net primary production (NPP)
- Local NPP scaling (LNS)
- MODIS
- sustainability
- mapping
- degradation
- communal farming
- plant production
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper explores Swaziland's National Action Programme (NAP) to combat desertification; the country's main strategy for implementing the United Nations Convention to Combat…Publication Date 2009
- land degradation
- policy
- Poverty
- Orthodoxy
- Myth
- desertification
- policies
- management
- degradation
- land use
- Africa
- Swaziland
- Library Collection RecordNatural resource management may change local and regional ecosystems, especially in drought-prone environments. Livestock are commonly kept as a source of capital in agriculturally dominated…Publication Date 2009
- desertification
- erosion
- Holistic management
- riparian grazing
- management
- degradation
- communal farming
- ecosystem dynamics
- livestock
- watering points
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA great many debates have grown up around the notion of desertification as a process of degradation that affects the arid, semi-arid and sub-humid zones of the globe. A fundamental and continuing…Publication Date 2005
- desertification
- Paradigms
- climate
- rangeland ecology
- Livelihoods approach
- environmental policy
- rangelands
- policies
- land use
- ecology
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTransformation of South African succulent thicket in response to grazing is widespread and characterized by the extensive replacement of dense closed-canopy thicket with a [`]pseudo-savanna' of…Publication Date 2005
- desertification
- functional diversity
- Goat browsing
- plant diversity
- grazing
- savanna
- Aerial Photographs
- ecosystem dynamics
- degradation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper set out to analyse time-series and spatial livestock data in the arid west of Namibia over a period of 11 years. These were interpreted in the context of rainfall conditions and access to…Publication Date 2004
- carrying capacity
- Central Namib
- desertification
- desert
- Farming system
- Namibia
- range management
- savanna
- Africa