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- Library Collection Recorddewey class number: 633.2009684 Full text also available online. Scroll down for electronic link.Publication Date 2005
- rangeland management
- Kwa Zulu Natal
- Okhombe ward
- Agricultural systems
- grazing
- Commons
- natural resources
- communal management
- citizen participation
- grassland ecology
- Fodder trees
- Ukulinga Research Farm
- feed composition
- nutritional value
- Cropping Systems
- subsistence agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe overall aim of the study was to investigate re-vegetation of disturbed sites, using nursery grown plugs (from seedling trays) of Themeda triandra, Heteropogon contortus and Hyparrhenia dregeana…Publication Date 2005
- restoration ecology
- revegetation
- grasslands
- herbicides
- Alien invasive species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe replacement of indigenous grasslands by commercial forestry plantations on the mountainous eastern escarpment of South Africa, has inevitably led to alteration of nutrient cycling. The overall…Publication Date 2005
- soil nutrients
- soil ecology
- plants nutrition
- soil nutrition
- landscape ecology
- Pinus patula
- South Africa
- Eucalyptus grandis
- trees
- growth
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordInstitutions of collective action and systems of property rights shape how people use natural resources, and these patterns of use in turn affect the outcomes of people’s agricultural production…Publication Date 2004
- Library Collection RecordThis book provides information on the various species that pollinate Sonoran Desert plants.Publication Date 2004
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- pollinators
- United States
- Library Collection Record Throughout eastern Africa the economic base of tribal societies has gone through rapid change, with concomitant declines in common pool resources and emergence of new tenure systems (public and…Publication Date 2004
- Library Collection Record"There is a story almost totally unknown outside the West, but urgently discussed every day now in the western press: the story of a steadily growing number of local agreements among western…Publication Date 2003
- New Mexico
- ranching
- range management
- rangeland ecology
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis chapter describes relationships between environmental stress and the reaction of plants thereupon. Plants might react to environmental stress on various levels: on the biochemical, cellular, or…Publication Date 2003
- Autecology
- biodiversity
- character state
- climate change
- ecotoxicology
- effects
- Ellenberg
- flora
- heavy metal
- IEPS
- insecticide
- PAF
- palynology
- photosynthesis
- Synecology
- vascular plants
- vegetation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo Abstract available.Publication Date 2003
- grasslands
- management
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the Sahel and the Kalahari, the growth in groundwater extraction via simple wells and boreholes is contributing to an increased use of dryland natural resources, to competition for resources, and…Publication Date 2003
- rangeland condition
- rainfall
- groundwater
- animal production
- vegetation dynamics
- biodiversity
- bush thickening
- indigenous encroaching species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordPublished studies relating erosion and productivity have been generally based on information derived from expert opinion on the extent and severity of soil erosion and on limited data on its impact…Publication Date 2003
- soil erosion
- plant production
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe following dissertation sets out to investigate the decline of agriculture in Mission location at Butterworth, Transkei, using the Rehabilitation Scheme as a benchmark. The scheme was introduced…Publication Date 2003
- agriculture
- South Africa
- Transkei
- land use
- land tenure
- soil erosion
- politics
- policies
- communal farming
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2003
- rangelands
- rangeland management
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordRanching is as much a part of the West as its wide-open spaces. The mystique of rugged individualism has sustained this activity well past the frontier era and has influenced how we view—and valueâ…Publication Date 2002
- Arizona
- endangered species
- ranching
- Southwest
- United States
- urbanization
- Library Collection RecordThe tropics cover 8.2 billion hectares or approximately 40% of the world's land area. These regions are characterized by a large portion of the world's rapidly increasing population, high…Publication Date 2002
- carbon dioxide
- carbon dynamics
- carbon sequestration
- Carbon Sink
- greenhouse gases
- climate change
- soils
- socio-economic aspects
- land use
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo Abstract available.Publication Date 2002
- cattle
- sustainability
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record
167 Desertification
Desertification 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 RecordThe chapter describes different patches that are included in a single landscape unit. Patches differ in size, species composition, and the way they function in a landscape. Patches may be composed of…Publication Date 2002
- vegetation dynamics
- ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored an International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas, May…Publication Date 2002
- Library Collection RecordThe System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored an International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas, May…Publication Date 2002
- Africa
- North Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- West Asia
- Library Collection RecordThe System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored an International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas, May…Publication Date 2002
- Africa
- North Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- West Asia
- Library Collection RecordLantana camara (lantana), a thicket-forming shrub, a number of different varieties of which were introduced into South Africa as ornamental plants but which has become a serious invasive weed.…Publication Date 2002
- Biological pest control
- South Africa
- Lantana camara
- Beetles
- Hemiptera
- Weeds
- Alien invasive species
- biological control
- modelling
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBook by Karen Launchbaugh (ed.) concerning Pasture, Rangeland Management, Grazing and other subjectsPublication Date 2001
- pastures
- grassland management
- grazing
- Idaho
- Library Collection RecordEvidence of the intensifying conflict between the economy and the ecosystem of which it is a part can be seen not only in the dust bowl emerging in China, but also in the burning rainforests in…Publication Date 2001
- Africa
- China
- Gulf of Mexico
- Library Collection RecordEvidence of the intensifying conflict between the economy and the ecosystem of which it is a part can be seen not only in the dust bowl emerging in China, but also in the burning rainforests in…Publication Date 2001
- Africa
- China
- Gulf of Mexico
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this guide is to describe the various organizations working in invasive plant management, compare existing approaches, and identify opportunities for cooperation and coordination that…Publication Date 2001
- Arizona
- California
- Mexico
- Sonoran Desert
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this guide is to describe the various organizations working in invasive plant management, compare existing approaches, and identify opportunities for cooperation and coordination that…Publication Date 2001
- Arizona
- California
- Mexico
- Sonoran Desert
- Library Collection RecordThe New Ranch Handbook: A Guide to Restoring Western Rangelands promises much in title and delivers more in substance. The book addresses the multitude of contemporary issues facing rangeland…Publication Date 2001
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAs a guide to determining historic reference conditions of a landscape, this text makes connections between past and future ecosystems, bringing together leading experts to offer an introduction to…Publication Date 2001
- biotic communities
- conservation
- human ecology
- Library Collection RecordThis chapter discusses the magnitude and dynamics of the soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic carbon (SIC) pools. The chapter also describes the impact of different land uses and management…Publication Date 2001
- carbon dioxide
- carbon sequestration
- Carbon Sink
- climate change
- soils
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract available.Publication Date 2001
- climate change
- carbon sequestration
- monitoring
- soils
- degradation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordPeople have inhabited terrestrial ecosystems of the world for thousands of years. Both resource management systems and cosmological belief systems have evolved and continue to develop. In fact, most…Publication Date 2001
- conservation
- biodiversity
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record
188 Desertification
The 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 RecordThe geology, climates past and present, and soils of Africa are summarized, as are the effects of fire on the vegetation. The vegetation and animals of each major zone – forest, tropical seasonal…Publication Date 2001
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary Grasslands are located in areas with precipitation ranging between 150 and 1200 mm yr-1 and temperature between 0 and 25 C (Lieth and Whittaker, 1975). Along a precipitation gradient, in…Publication Date 2001
- grasslands
- rainfall
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordWoody plant encroachment has been widespread in grassland and savanna ecosystems over the past century. This phenomenon jeopardizes grassland biodiversity and threatens the sustainability of pastoral…Publication Date 2001
- grasslands
- soils
- indigenous encroaching species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary The growth of agricultural production worldwide has led to an increasing role of agro-ecosystems within the global carbon cycle. Arable land in the world covers about one-tenth of the 134…Publication Date 2001
- plant production
- carbon dioxide
- animal nutrition
- animal production
- 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 RecordSummary The savanna biome is diverse, including formations ranging from almost treeless grasslands to more or less closed-canopy woodlands with considerable variation in plant composition, biomass,…Publication Date 2001
- savanna
- animal production
- plant production
- plant community ecology
- land use
- degradation
- agriculture
- ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record
195 Grasslands
Vegetation 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
- Library Collection RecordSummary In order to obtain a better insight into past vegetational and climatic changes along the Pole-Equator-Pole: Americas (PEP 1) transect, 32 late Quaternary pollen records from savanna and…Publication Date 2001
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordArid shrub-lands in Syria and elsewhere in West Asia and North Africa are widely thought degraded. Characteristic of these areas is a preponderance of unpalatable shrubs or a lack of overall ground…Publication Date 2001
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2001
- plant autecology
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Mceula Commonage Land in the Hewu district lies due northwest of Whittle sea and west of Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. This thesis has two main objectives. Firstly, to survey and analyse the…Publication Date 2000
- natural resources
- management
- Eastern Cape
- subsistence agriculture
- Economic Aspects
- medicinal plants
- soil
- socio-economic aspects
- sustainability
- land use
- degradation
- participatory rural appraisal
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA comparison of soil degradation between communal grazing and controlled grazing was undertaken in the Victoria-East district of the Eastern Cape. The study was undertaken in the communal rangeland…Publication Date 2000
- soil
- degradation
- rangelands
- management
- communal grazing
- subsistence agriculture
- grazing
- commercial agriculture
- erosion
- southern Africa