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- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of correcting indigestible neutral detergent fibre (iNDF) for the loss of lignin in predictions of silage organic matter digestibility (OMD).…Publication Date 2014
- silage
- plant nutritive value
- forage quality
- cattle
- sheep
- management
- faecal samples
- grass
- indigestible neutral detergent fibre
- in vivo digestibility
- lignin
- red clover
- Jokioinen
- Finland
- 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 RecordThe relative importance of breed versus rearing experience on the grazing behaviour and diet selection of beef cattle when grazing unimproved grassland was examined over 4 years. Suckler-reared…Publication Date 2014
- foraging ecology
- cattle
- grazing
- grassland
- management
- Nature conservation
- breed
- rearing experience
- grazing behaviour
- diet preference
- biodiversity
- North Wyke
- Devon UK
- 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 RecordThere is a common perception in South Africa that the youth are not interested in agriculture, leading to two concerns: first, that this is exacerbating the youth unemployment crisis, and second,…Publication Date 2013
- agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- rural areas
- animal production
- Plant Productivity
- policy
- livestock
- communal rangelands
- cattle
- goats
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordEcosystems have a critical role in regulating climate, and soil, water and air quality, but management to change an ecosystem process in support of one regulating ecosystem service can either provide…Publication Date 2013
- co-benefit
- Ecosystem service
- policy
- regulating service
- trade-off
- cattle
- grazing
- climate change
- soils
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- United Kingdom
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article. N. Jürgens, D. H. Haarmeyer, J. Luther-Mosebach, J. Dengler, M. Finckh & U. Schmiedel ( eds ). Klaus Hess Publishers , Göttingen and Windhoek , 2010…Publication Date 2012
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe study focused on investigating the effects of different grazing ratios and stocking rate of cattle and goats under mixed species grazing on different species of plant. The experimental site was…Publication Date 2012
- Mixed-species grazing
- stocking rate
- grazing ratio
- cattle
- goats
- biomass
- Zimbabwe
- 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 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 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. By Ross. A. Bradstock, A. Malcolm Gill and Richard J. Williams, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 2012. xi?+?333 pp. Price A$79.95 (paperback; also available…Publication Date 2012
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the past few years, African medicinal plants have received considerable attention, and it has been lamented that the documentation of the continent's species that are used in traditional…Publication Date 2011
- medicinal plants
- rangelands
- savanna
- grasslands
- Ethnobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordKenya Environment and Science Journalists Association (KENSJA) Submitted by aventh on August 24, 2009 - 5:41am Initiated in February 2007, the Kenya Environment and Science Journalists Association (…Publication Date 2011
- ecosystem ecology
- economics
- legislation
- journalism
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record1. Ecological edges (zones separating ecosystems or land cover types) can function as active boundaries, unique habitats and dynamic transition zones. Abiotic factors, species and species…Publication Date 2011
- savanna
- ecosystem structure
- Ecosystem function
- edge effects
- grazing
- cattle
- Acacia drepanolobium
- boma
- continuous response function
- Crematogaster
- edge depth
- habitat fragmentation
- multiple edges
- Tetraponera penzigi
- Laikipia
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn interim solution for the toxic tide of acid mine water rising beneath the surface of South Africa 's Witwatersrand area will cost government an estimated R145-million, Water Affairs Minister…Publication Date 2011
- pollution
- degradation
- Waste management
- toxic
- acid mine drainage
- hazard assessment
- acid mine drainage
- economics
- pollution
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordMonday, 23 August 2010 South African Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Sonjica Buyelwa confirmed on Friday that investigations regarding the quality of the water discharged at the troubled…Publication Date 2011
- mining activities
- pollution
- legislation
- acid mine drainage
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe objectives of this study were to use the in vitro gas production (IVGP) technique to evaluate the pattern and parameters of anaerobic fermentation of forages from south Texas pastures throughout…Publication Date 2011
- forage quality
- grazing
- cattle
- in vitro
- modelling
- nutrition
- prediction
- simulation
- Texas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: Does vegetation structure display any stability over the grazing season and in two successive years, and is there any correlation between the stability of these spatial patterns and local…Publication Date 2011
- Boolean process
- cattle
- functional diversity
- patch stability
- Semi-variograms
- Spatially explicit model
- stocking rate
- grazing
- cattle
- grassland
- modelling
- releves
- vegetation dynamics
- management
- Massif Central
- France
- Library Collection RecordOn a follow up insert on Carte Blanche on Sunday the 6th of March 2011, some possible solutions were shown to viewers of how to clean up the Acid Mine Drainage Problem plagueing South Africa. '…Publication Date 2011
- acid mine drainage
- economics
- pollution
- fertiliser
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA Team of Experts has been instructed by a Task Team, chaired by the Directors General of Mineral Resources and Water Affairs to advise the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on acid mine drainage (…Publication Date 2011
- pollution
- degradation
- Waste management
- toxic
- acid mine drainage
- hazard assessment
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordCities must go further and further away to find new, more costly sources of water for human consumption while industries and agriculture continue to compete for increasingly scarce water resources.…Publication Date 2011
- Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve
- water resources
- environmental economics
- ecosystem services
- nature reserve
- water
- Economic Aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAGRO-ICT-Backbone by PROGIS We want to draw your attention to the many benefits resulting from merging complementary technologies to one unique and outstanding integrated solution. I'm speaking…Publication Date 2011
- information technology
- agriculture
- GIS
- remote sensing
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe films show two sustainable land management (SLM) technologies that have a proven track record in Africa: Stone Lines and Fanya Juu. The technologies presented can constitute important changes…Publication Date 2011
- Sustainable development
- management
- climate change
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordJuly 2011 | e-Agriculture Newsletter The e-Agriculture Newsletter is part of a global initiative to enhance sustainable agricultural development and food security by improving the use of Information…Publication Date 2011
- plant production
- animal production
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBoreholes in the Kruger National Park (KNP) was at first developed to increase the number of animals that were at low densities because of poaching, diseases, fencing and low permanent water…Publication Date 2011
- national park
- water
- management
- piospheres
- soil moisture
- boreholes
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGOVERNMENT NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS No. 2012 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 PUBLICATION OF EXEMPTED ALIEN SPECIES I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa, Minister for…Publication Date 2011
- Alien invasive species
- exempted species
- invasive species
- biodiversity
- Weeds
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGlobally, ecosystems provide services of almost twice the value of global gross national product (Costanza et al., 2006). The Buffalo City Municipality (BCM), South Africa contains biodiversity of…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity conservation
- South Africa
- Buffalo City
- ecosystem services
- biodiversity
- conservation
- mapping
- degradation
- GIS
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record1 GOVERNMENT NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS No. 2012 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 PUBLICATION OF PROHIBITED ALIEN SPECIES I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa, Minister…Publication Date 2011
- Alien invasive species
- prohibited species
- invasive species
- biodiversity
- Weeds
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA special Ministerial-level task team has been assembled by the South African government to develop a coordinated strategy to deal 'urgently' with the issue of acid-water drainage, which…Publication Date 2011
- acid mine drainage
- legislation
- pollution
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract available.Publication Date 2011
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGOVERNMENT NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS No. 2012 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 PUBLICATION OF NATIONAL LIST OF INVASIVE SPECIES I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa,…Publication Date 2011
- Alien invasive species
- exempted species
- invasive species
- biodiversity
- Weeds
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Yale Forum on Climate Change 38; The Media is an online publication and forum of Yale University, Connecticut, United States, to foster dialogue on climate change among scientists, journalists,…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- policy
- forum
- Yale University
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordEnvironmental Law provides a comprehensive and succinct examination of the entire environmental law landscape in South Africa. The second edition includes a new chapter on climate change, and also…Publication Date 2011
- legislation
- climate change
- Environmental impact assessment
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordJournalist Heather Dugmore is up in arms about Shell's bid to start hydraulic fracturing over 30000 square kilometres in the Karoo in the hunt for natural gas reserves. Here her article '…Publication Date 2011
- fracking
- shale gas
- Karoo
- natural gas
- ecology
- pollution
- degradation
- 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 RecordIn communal areas of NE Zimbabwe, feed resources are collectively managed, with herds grazing on grasslands during the rainy season and mainly on crop residues during the dry season, which creates…Publication Date 2011
- Crop-livestock interactions
- Dynamic modelling
- cattle
- crop residues
- grasslands
- livestock
- foraging ecology
- soil organic carbon
- soil fertility
- management
- communal farming
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSoil solution nitrogen (N) concentrations in a non-fertilized Japanese lawngrass (Zoysia japonica Steud.; JL, native species) pasture were compared with those in a fertilized tall fescue (Festuca…Publication Date 2011
- grazing
- pastures
- cattle
- soil nutrients
- fertiliser
- Grazed pasture
- soil solution nitrogen
- Zoysia japonica Steud
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordThe 28-month study assessed the impacts of five syntopic medium-sized mammalian browsers and one fire event in a woodland savanna in the Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe. Aspects of herbivory, mechanical…Publication Date 2011
- antelopes
- Zimbabwe
- Duikers
- Bushbuck
- kudu
- seed dispersal
- grazing
- ecosystem ecology
- fire ecology
- savanna
- nutrients
- game plant production
- germination
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLaunched in October 2009, The Regional Livelihoods Advocacy Project (REGLAP) is a Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission (ECHO) funded project working to reduce the vulnerability of…Publication Date 2011
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- policies
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe second edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is a resource for understanding and analysing global disaster risk today and in the future (Ban Ki-moon,…Publication Date 2011
- drought
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe main objective of this study was to determine to what extent grazing pressure and timing modulate the seasonal progression of herbage quality in hilly Mediterranean grassland systems. The study…Publication Date 2011
- grazing
- cattle
- fodder quality
- grassland
- management
- rangelands
- sustainablity
- acid detergent fibre
- digestibility
- grazing system
- neutral detergent fibre
- near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy
- protein
- stocking rate
- eastern Galilee
- Israel
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: What are the interactive effects of flooding and cattle trampling upon the structural attributes and the floristic composition of a plant community? Do the effects on the plant community…Publication Date 2011
- community structure
- flooding
- Grassland recovery
- grazing
- Lotus tenuis
- trampling
- grassland
- cattle
- management
- Flooding Pampa grasslands
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordDescription of the Data The Global Agricultural Lands in the Year 2000 data set represents the proportion of land area used as cropland (land used for the cultivation of food) and pasture (land used…Publication Date 2011
- croplands
- pasture
- Data
- mapping
- satellite imagery
- MODIS
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record1 GOVERNMENT NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS No. R. 2012 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 ALIEN AND INVASIVE SPECIES REGULATIONS I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa,…Publication Date 2011
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordDate of Meeting: 22 Jun 2011 Chairperson: Mr J de Lange (ANC) Documents handed out: application/pdf icon National Treasury: Acid Mine Drainage : Funding 38; Recommendations application/pdf icon…Publication Date 2011
- acid mine drainage
- Parliamentary Report
- South Africa
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Savanna biome covers around 60% of sub-Saharan Africa. The goods and services it provides are utilised and often depended upon by rural communities, commercial farmers and managers of…Publication Date 2011
- remote sensing
- Savanna ecology
- biomass
- spatial ecology
- spatial analysis
- plant biomass
- remote sensing
- fire ecology
- management
- MODIS
- Nature reserves
- savanna
- mapping
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordProtected areas are effective at stopping biodiversity loss, but their placement is constrained by the needs of people. Consequently protected areas are often biased toward areas that are…Publication Date 2011
- conservation
- biodiversity
- Economic Aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe widespread provision of water points in protected areas in semi-arid savannas has supported associated increases in cumulative grazing pressure. This study addresses the management implications…Publication Date 2011
- water
- piosphere
- management
- savanna
- grazing
- nature reserve
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa