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- Library Collection RecordThis field guide provides photos and information on the wildflowers of southern Arizona.Publication Date 2011
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- wildflowers
- 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 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 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 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 RecordLand use and land transformation are major threats to biodiversity. Only a small percentage of land and thus biodiversity is protected within reserves. The majority of biodiversity lies in the hands…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Agrobiodiversity
- Agricultural ecology
- veld
- landscape assessment
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- plant production
- grassland
- savanna
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- grazing
- fire ecology
- soil erosion
- commercial agriculture
- 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 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 Record2008, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK 305 pages, hardcover and softcover ISBN 978-0-19-852918-7 (hardcover), 978-0-19-852919-4 (softcover). Price £70 / £34.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2007, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK 336 pp, hardcover and softcover ISBN 978?0?19?857065?3 (hardcover), 978?0?19?857066?0 (softcover). Price £60 / £29.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2008, James Currey Publishers, Box 242, 266 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DL, UK 312 pages, softcover and hardcover ISBN 978-0-85255-990-1 (softcover), 978-0-85255-991-8 (hardcover). Price £17.95 (…Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, CSIRO Publishing, PO Box 1139, Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia 184 pages, softcover ISBN 978-0-64309-527-4. Price AU\$49.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Island Press, 1718 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009, USA 396pp, softcover and hardcover ISBN 978?1-59726?671-0 (softcover), 978?1-59726?670-3 (hardcover). Price US\$95 (…Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordBiomass burning contributes significantly to the global concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere (Fishman et al., 2003, Kaufman et al., 1998). The African continent is…Publication Date 2010
- Air
- pollution
- earth sciences
- remote sensing
- image processing
- fire ecology
- groundcover fires
- environmental aspects
- southern Africa
- Savanna ecology
- biomass
- greenhouse gases
- savanna
- carbon dioxide
- Methane
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBook by Glenn Shewmaker et al. concerning Pasture, Grazing, Rangeland Management and other subjectsPublication Date 2010
- pastures
- grazing
- grassland management
- Idaho
- Library Collection RecordA thorough understanding of the behavior of fire in grasslands is critical to the minimization of the impact of fires on agricultural and pastoral land as well as the successful management of the…Publication Date 2010
- fire
- grasslands
- management
- species richness
- climate change
- fire ecology
- agriculture
- pastoralism
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate change and a growing demand for freshwater resources due to population increases and socio-economic changes will make water a limiting factor (in terms of both quantity and quality) in…Publication Date 2010
- water supply
- southern Africa
- hydrology
- mathematical models
- hydrologic models
- Rain and rainfall
- runoff
- climate change
- modelling
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe project was initiated by Eastern Cape Parks (ECP) as a request for the construction of inventories of priority species and their population levels inside three nature reserves on the Eastern Cape…Publication Date 2010
- Plant diversity conservation
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Rare plants
- Population viability analysis
- biodiversity
- Plant conservation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Human-plant relationships
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- Nature reserves
- subsistence agriculture
- management
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Great Escarpment forms a semi-continuous mountain system 5 000 km long, stretching from Angola in the north-west, south through Namibia, and into western, southern and eastern South Africa,…Publication Date 2010
- phytogeography
- Great Escarpment
- Sneeuberg
- Nuweveldberge
- Roggeveldberge
- Endemism
- Flora - migration
- conservation
- climate change
- degradation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordRangeland ecosystems support half of the world's livestock while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland…Publication Date 2010
- grassland animals
- grazing
- livestock
- range management
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470609880.ch8.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * Hominid Exploitation of Wetlands Environments and Resources * Early Hominins: Colonization of New…Publication Date 2010
- exploitation of wetlands environments and foods by pre-sapiens hominins
- early hominins - colonization of new environments
- preconditions for encephalization - physiological considerations
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe focus of this study is to explore and expand farmer learning processes in sustainable agriculture workplace contexts. It examines change oriented learning processes in the context of three…Publication Date 2010
- sustainable agriculture
- southern Africa
- Sustainable development
- Permaculture
- organic farming
- Training of farmers
- Zimbabwe
- South Africa
- Social and economic conditions
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- Sustainable development
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordConservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology…Publication Date 2010
- conservation
- climate change
- socio-economic aspects
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- fire ecology
- invasive species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe exotic plant Lantana camara L. has invaded the riparian areas of the Victoria Falls World Heritage Site in Livingstone, southern Zambia, threatening native plant communities which support…Publication Date 2010
- Lantana camara
- Victoria Falls
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- invasive plants
- biological control
- Riparian restoration
- riparian ecology
- restoration ecology
- herbicides
- seeds
- Weeds
- Alien invasive species
- conservation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordVegetation data were collected at 30 randomly located sample points during June 2009. Data were collected using both ocular estimation and line-point intercept transects each describing fuel load…Publication Date 2010
- Southeastern Idaho
- Library Collection RecordThe spatial and temporal patterns of fire in Africa south of the equator are described and investigated to test hypotheses on the main drivers of fire. In particular, the relative importance of…Publication Date 2010
- fire ecology
- Savanna ecology
- southern Africa
- vegatation dynamics
- fires
- environmental aspects
- satellite imagery
- modelling
- global change
- rainfall
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAgricultural growth will prove essential for improving the welfare of the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Roughly 80 percent of the continent’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not…Publication Date 2010
- Library Collection RecordOver the past decade, economic and agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has resumed. The secular downward trend in agricultural prices ended in the early 1990s; growing incomes in Asia and…Publication Date 2010
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordInternationally there is an increasing focus on involving local communities in natural resource management and monitoring. Monitoring methods which are professionally driven appear to be inadequate…Publication Date 2009
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- natural resources
- management
- Community development
- citizen participation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- social aspects
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- natural resources
- monitoring
- communal farming
- conservation
- biodiversity
- rangelands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlso issued on CD-ROM. Summary available in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2009
- plant production
- Forage Quantity
- forage quality
- nutrition
- triticale
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Recordflexible grazing management facilitates these processes and thus, the sustainability of rangeland livestock production.Publication Date 2009
- herbivory
- Arizona
- changes
- Library Collection RecordSpecies possess characteristics that are considered adapted to burning and these allow them to outcompete species and dominate in fire prone environments. It has therefore been proposed that fire…Publication Date 2009
- photosynthesis
- Carbon metabolism
- grasses
- Effect of fires on plants
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- drought
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlso issued on CD-ROM. Summary available in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2009
- pasture management
- foraging ecology
- plant production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo redress past discrepancies in land tenure, the ANC government acknowledged that land needs to be made accessible to the previously disadvantaged, announcing that commonage would be a pillar of…Publication Date 2009
- Municipal commonage
- Livelihoods
- natural resource valuation
- direct-use values
- policies
- politics
- socio-economic aspects
- land tenure
- land use
- communal farming
- legislation
- management
- grazing
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA highly variable invasive shrub, Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae), has been notoriously difficult to control thus far despite a well established biological control programme in South Africa. A…Publication Date 2009
- Lantana camara
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- biological control
- Biological pest control agents
- Weeds
- biological control
- invasive plants
- Hemiptera
- Miridae
- Alien invasive species
- management
- insects
- restoration ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Minerals and Petroleum Resources Act (MRPDA) No 28 of 2002 of South Africa states that the holder of a mining permit remains liable for environmental consequences until a closure certificate has…Publication Date 2009
- landscape ecology
- South Africa
- Highveld
- grassland ecology
- gold mines
- mining
- environmental aspects
- spectrum analysis
- restoration ecology
- rehabilitation
- modelling
- monitoring
- remote sensing
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAnyone who lives in the West County of St. Louis knows the next chapter of the story. Like urban deer populations that thrive in subdivisions with no predators, wild horse populations expanded…Publication Date 2009
- Library Collection RecordChanging climate adds a very significant dimension to the complex problem of ensuring that agriculture worldwide can feed the burgeoning human population. Ensuring food security must reduce…Publication Date 2009
- climate change
- plant production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand degradation is a global problem affecting many countries including South Africa. This study was conducted in order to assess and monitor the nature and extent of land degradation within Qoqodala…Publication Date 2009
- geographic information systems
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- remote sensing
- land degradation
- monitoring
- GIS
- indigenous encroaching species
- erosion
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis book is the most up to date and thorough account of the natural history of the plants that comprise the most important food crop on Earth, the grasses and grasslands. Source: OCLC WorldCat (http…Publication Date 2009
- grasses
- grassland ecology
- grasslands
- Library Collection RecordAlso issued on CD-ROM. Summary available in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2009
- agriculture
- plant production
- grazing
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe invasion of Acacia mearnsii in the Kouga catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa, has various negative impacts on the ecosystem. These impacts include: reduced species richness, increased water use…Publication Date 2009
- Acacia mearnsii
- Wattles
- soil erosion
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- biological invasions
- alien plants
- invasive plants
- biogeography
- soil management
- soil moisture
- Soils alien invasive species
- soil nutrients
- conservation
- restoration ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordConservation for a New Generation highlights the dynamic state of how natural resources management is being practiced in the United States today as it transitions from top-down programs and federal…Publication Date 2009
- conservation
- management
- natural resources
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * Why has woody plant abundance increased on rangelands? * Traditional perspectives on woody plant encroachment * Emerging perspectives on woody…Publication Date 2009
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis handbook, updated edition of the 2002 edition, seeks to address planning, monitoring, and evaluation in the context of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and its evaluation policy.…Publication Date 2009
- planning
- monitoring
- decision-making
- management
- sustanable development
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordCommonage is land that is usually found adjacent to a town, which is owned by the local municipality and acquired through state grants or, historically, through the church. Since the new government…Publication Date 2009
- commonage
- land reform
- common property resource
- adaptive co-management
- Subsistence farming
- management
- land use
- grazing
- Sustainable utilisation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, Springer, PO Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 274 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4020-8935-0. Price €139.95Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe decommissioning of mines and mining-related activities brings about the onset of rehabilitation. A legacy that most coal mines must address is the rehabilitation of the coal discard dumps that…Publication Date 2009
- conservation
- mining
- rehabilitation
- restoration ecology
- soils
- grass
- seeds
- fertiliser
- management
- soil nutrients
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York, USA, 418 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-387-87491-3. Price €79.95Publication Date 2009
- 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