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- Library Collection RecordBush encroachment is a significant phenomenon in savanna environments as it affects wildlife and local livelihoods by preventing new pasture generation. In this article we present a 2000-year record…Publication Date 2010
- Indigenous knowledge
- pollen
- hyrax
- savanna
- indigenous encroaching species
- ecology
- Ethiopia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlthough alpine pans have been reported from a variety of mountain regions, these have received limited research attention and are thus amongst the least known of closed basins . This study…Publication Date 2010
- Alpine pans
- Turf exfoliation
- morphology
- climate
- Geomorphic processes
- Lesotho
- ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordCoastal social ecological systems in eastern Africa are subject to a range of environmental, social and economic changes. They are already vulnerable to these multiple stressors, and the impacts of…Publication Date 2010
- resilience
- Adaptive governance
- development policy
- Marine Protected Areas
- river basins
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2008, Springer, PO Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands 306 pages, hardcover or softcover ISBN 978?1?4020?6848?5 (hardcover), 978?1?4020?6849?2 (softcover). Price €119.95 / €59.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe relationships between pastoralists, livestock, and the environment in dryland Africa are complex. Over the last half-century dominant narratives have portrayed pastoralists and their livestock as…Publication Date 2010
- NDVI
- GPS
- cattle mobility
- grazing ecology
- degradation
- Cultural ecology
- piosphere
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDifferent approaches for the assessment of biodiversity by means of remote sensing were developed over the last decades. A new approach, based on the spectral variation hypothesis, proposes that the…Publication Date 2010
- savanna
- Spectral variation hypothesis
- Shannon index
- species richness
- scale
- hyperspectral
- biodiversity
- remote sensing
- landscape ecology
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge is poor of how fertilization affects birds in grasslands. We investigated the impact on birds of abandoned pastoral settlements that historically received very high levels of livestock dung…Publication Date 2010
- Diptera
- fertilization
- Insectivorous birds
- Masai Mara
- Pitfall traps
- Sweep netting
- birds
- Abandoned lands
- grasslands
- invertebrates
- fertilizer
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRainfall variability is an important feature of semi-arid climates, and climate change is likely to increase that variability in many of these regions. An understanding of rainfall variability and…Publication Date 2010
- rainfall
- climate change
- grassland
- policies
- Botswana
- 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 RecordThis study evaluated the variation of the concentration of mimosine in Leucaena forage with season, the time of defoliation and dehydration. Fresh samples were collected randomly from Leucaena…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLittle is known about the grass species type, composition and nutritive value in the semiarid savannas that sustain most of Swaziland's cattle population through the seven-month-long dry season…Publication Date 2009
- cumulative gas production
- organic matter degradability
- ruminant livestock
- tropical grass species
- nutrition
- cattle
- grasslands
- savanna
- grazing
- soils
- forage quality
- Swaziland
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPteronia paniculata is an indigenous, unpalatable shrub that invades mismanaged Karooveld, resulting in degraded rangelands with low species diversity and grazing potential. We conducted a series of…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study investigated the impact of rainfall and herbivory by indigenous herbivores over five years (2004?2008) on the vegetation of the Sanbona Wildlife Reserve (SWR), a 54 000 ha privately owned…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordBy its nature, combating desertification is a complex, multidisciplinary activity that requires coordinated responses at a multitude of levels spanning both scientific disciplines and government…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTwo types of desertification professionals are typically characterised?the scientist and the policy-maker. After many years of efforts to combat desertification and promote sustainable land…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFor many years, rangeland monitoring has mainly been the field of scientists, academics and extension workers trying to fine-tune methods to assess the condition of rangelands. Frameworks and…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Namibian rangelands consist of a mixture of herbaceous and woody components. The main source of income is from farming systems with grass production the predominant source of forage. For…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDespite significant attention paid to desertification and climate change in the last few decades, interactions between the phenomena, as well as implications thereof, have received less of a focus.…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDryland degradation (in other words, desertification) is defined for the purposes of this paper as a persistent decrease in the capacity of an arid or semiarid ecosystem to supply a range of services…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDescription not available.Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe establishment of enclosures has become an important measure to combat land degradation in many of the world's semi-arid rangelands. In view of the increased pressure exerted by this land…Publication Date 2009
- enclosures
- Semi-arid rangeland
- vegetation structure
- soil quality
- rehabilitation
- degradation
- management
- soil
- commercial agriculture
- communal farming
- plant production
- Soil Condition
- biomass
- Kenya
- 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 RecordThe influence of dispersed trees on microclimatic conditions, gas exchange and productivity of maize (Zea mays L.) in a Grevillea robusta-based agroforestry system in semi-arid Kenya was examined to…Publication Date 2009
- agroforestry
- Grevillea robusta
- microclimate
- temperature
- gas exchange
- Maize
- agriculture
- ecosystem ecology
- rainfall
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDespite the importance of livestock to poor people and the magnitude of the changes that are likely to befall livestock systems, the intersection of climate change and livestock in developing…Publication Date 2009
- development
- research
- Poverty
- impact
- livestock
- systems
- climate change
- household income studies
- pastoralism
- Economic Aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpatially explicit land use/cover models are indispensable for sustainable rural land use planning, particularly in southern African countries that are experiencing rapid land use/cover changes.…Publication Date 2009
- Land use/cover change
- Multicriteria evaluation (MCE)
- Multi-objective land allocation (MOLA)
- Markov-cellular automata model
- land use
- modelling
- remote sensing
- mapping
- degradation
- rural areas
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe study examines the changes in sub-Saharan's natural land cover resources for a 25 year period. We assess these changes in four broad land cover classes - forests, natural non-forest…Publication Date 2009
- Land cover change
- High resolution satellite data
- sampling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFoliage of Ziziphus mucronata (buffalo thorn) was collected during the spring, summer and autumn. The chemical composition and in vitro digestibility of organic matter (IVDOM) of these samples were…Publication Date 2009
- chemical composition
- in vitro digestibility
- Mineral Composition
- forage quality
- nutrition
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPrimary energy extraction patterns by livestock under agropastoralism and ranching were investigated by the bite count method in semiarid south-eastern Kenya. Sward biomass for optimal energy intake…Publication Date 2009
- agropastoralism
- energy intake
- ranching
- livestock
- cattle
- sheep
- goats
- pastoralism
- diet selection
- grazing
- management
- animal production
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA sequence of paleosols in the Solo Basin, Central Java, Indonesia, documents the local and regional environments present when Homo erectus spread through Southeast Asia during the early Pleistocene…Publication Date 2009
- carbon isotopes
- Hominin evolution
- Indonesia
- paleoecology
- Paleosols
- Sunda
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummaryOver 1,200 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) have been identified in Africa, each meeting at least one of four objective criteria that identify it as an area of high conservation importance for…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has developed and applied a landscape-scale conservation planning methodology in eight priority conservation landscapes in Africa, areas we call African…Publication Date 2009
- conservation
- biodiversity
- stakeholders
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe adoption of conservation agriculture (CA), based on minimal soil movement, permanent soil cover with crop residues or growing plants and crop rotation has advanced rapidly in the Americas and…Publication Date 2009
- conservation agriculture
- infiltration
- water use efficiency
- erosion
- Soil moisture relations
- soil moisture
- Soil Condition
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordImproved agricultural productivity using conservation farming (CF) systems based on non-inversion tillage methods, have predominantly originated from farming systems in sub-humid to humid regions…Publication Date 2009
- Conservation farming
- Non-inversion tillage
- semi-arid
- Water productivity
- On-farm experiments
- no-till
- management
- agriculture
- plant production
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, Springer, PO Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 158 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-90-481-2525-8. Price €69.95Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLeaf gas exchange characteristics play a key role in carbon sequestration and water balance from site to regional scales, yet show differences among plant species with alternative adaptations to the…Publication Date 2009
- Arid and semiarid environments
- CO2 assimilation
- Ecophysiological models
- Kalahari
- Leaf gas exchange
- stomatal conductance
- carbon dioxide
- carbon sequestration
- water use efficiency
- climate
- plant autecology
- rainfall
- Botswana
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 2009
- savanna
- vegetation dynamics
- 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 RecordAbstract Recent IPCC projections suggest that Africa will be subject to particularly severe changes in atmospheric conditions. How the vegetation of Africa and particularly the grassland-savanna-…Publication Date 2009
- adaptive vegetation modelling
- aDGVM
- climate change
- demographic model
- DGVM
- fire
- process-based model
- savanna
- vegetation distribution
- grasslands
- modelling
- fire ecology
- disturbance
- carbon dioxide
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRelations between phytolith occurrences, taxonomy, and habitat are assessed for 184 East African grass species through the re-analysis of two qualitative surveys of phytolith types in leaf epidermis…Publication Date 2009
- phytolith
- Poaceae
- silica
- grassland
- savannas
- paleoecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe forest and savanna are already denuded of trees, hence this study focused on grasses, weeds and leaves as a possible source of sustainable, highly renewable replacement for wood as an energy…Publication Date 2009
- forest
- trees
- grasses
- Renewable
- wood
- availability
- sustainability
- grasslands
- Economic Aspects
- Nigeria
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen and charcoal data generated from a 1469 cm core, radiocarbon dated to 26,430 14C yr BP, recovered from Rumuiku Swamp on the southeast of Mount Kenya, are used to document changes in the…Publication Date 2009
- charcoal
- Holocene
- Last Glacial Maximum
- pollen
- Younger Dryas
- palaeobotany
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLeaf wax components of terrestrial plants are an important source of biomass in the geological records of soils, lakes and marine sediments. Relevant to the emerging use of plant wax derived…Publication Date 2009
- plant autecology
- biomass
- savanna
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe mediterranean ecosystems of the world harbor exceptional biodiversity, and factors such as livestock grazing which may negatively affect biodiversity are of global concern. The mediterranean…Publication Date 2009
- rangelands
- rangeland condition
- vegetation dynamics
- grazing
- biodiversity
- livestock
- commercial agriculture
- communal farming
- Karoo
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordCentral governments have neither the capacity nor the local knowledge to implement a just, large-scale national land registration system. Support to local institutions to undertake intermediate forms…Publication Date 2009
- land
- Property
- institutions
- investment
- management
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- pastoralism
- land reform
- land use
- 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 RecordSavanna chimpanzees are useful as referential models for early hominins, and here potential differences between chimpanzee and early hominin ecology is the focus. Whereas chimpanzees inhabit only a…Publication Date 2009
- Pan troglodytes
- diet
- paleoemvironmental data
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe results from two climate model simulations are used to explore the relationship between North Atlantic sea surface temperatures and the development of African aridity around 100,000 years ago.…Publication Date 2009
- Human dispersal
- Heinrich events
- Paleoenvironment
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe quantified livestock (cattle, shoats, horses and donkeys) losses to lions (Panthera leo) and attitudes to lions, livestock losses and tourism among livestock owners, village residents and tourism…Publication Date 2009
- communities
- cattle
- Benefit
- predation
- compensation
- eco - tourism
- subsistence agriculture
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- Botswana
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn African savannahs, large trees improve grass quality, particularly in dry and nutrient poor areas. Enhanced below-canopy grass nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus contents should therefore…Publication Date 2009
- canopy
- feeding preferences
- Fibre
- Grass quality
- Grazer
- herbivores
- linear programming
- nitrogen
- nutrients
- phosphorus
- savanna
- forage quality
- grazing
- animal nutrition
- modelling
- 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
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