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- Library Collection RecordSoils of South Africa is the first book in seventy years that provides a comprehensive account of South African soils. The book arranges more than seventy soil forms into fourteen groups and then…Publication Date 2012
- soil
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAs a textbook, the volume is well organised, with introductory chapters on the scope and key concepts of restoration ecology, followed by chapters on its ecological foundations – landscape,…Publication Date 2014
- restoration ecology
- Europe
- USA
- Australia
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe study was conducted in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa during the period 2005 to 2009 to investigate factors that affected the decision of small-scale farmers who kept cattle and sheep…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- small-scale cattle and sheep farming
- Binary logistic model
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470292136.ch4.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Objectives for This Chapter * Introduction * Factors Influencing the Agricultural Use of Animals * Animal Distribution…Publication Date 2008
- food production
- physiological adaptation
- buffalo
- livestock
- veterinary service
- agriculture
- management
- sustainability
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Livestock grazing is often viewed as having detrimental effects on plants and plant communities. Livestock grazing can, however, be managed to be an effective tool for vegetation management…Publication Date 2010
- livestock
- grazing
- nutrition
- ecology
- management
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- fire ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLivestock have played a pivotal and positive role in human development. Yet this has come at a heavy cost to the biological diversity of the world's rangelands and forests. Livestock grazing is…Publication Date 2001
- rangelands
- ecology
- livestock
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordVegetation dominated by grasses, which is among the largest ecosystems in the world, has great environmental significance as well as providing feed for livestock and wildlife. Grassland types vary…Publication Date 2001
- savannah
- steppe
- grasses
- herbivory
- grazing
- fire
- savanna
- grasslands
- disturbance
- livestock
- southern Africa