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- Library Collection RecordThe construction and validation of a user-friendly index to measure attitude of landowners towards conservation of Overberg Coastal Renosterveld (OCR), a critically endangered, distinctive grassy-…Publication Date 2005
- landowners
- Perceived benefit
- Willingness to conserve
- Cronbach Alpha
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- grasslands
- conservation agriculture
- land use
- eco - tourism
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordHabitat degradation through over-grazing and wood collection is especially prevalent in developing countries such as South Africa. As human populations expand and the demand for land increases, the…Publication Date 2005
- Lizards
- ecosystems
- disturbance
- reptiles
- biodiversity
- human impact
- savanna
- Traditional medicine
- South Africa
- degradation
- conservation
- land use
- species richness
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA hybrid approach comprising literature review, field investigation and interpretation of multi-date panchromatic aerial photographs at the 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 scales over four time slices between…Publication Date 2005
- population density
- Environmental deterioration
- Long-term trends
- remote sensing
- Aerial Photographs
- socio-economic aspects
- erosion
- degradation
- rangeland condition
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordProduction-oriented research in the second half of the 20th century made impressive contributions to technical developments which helped to meet the food requirements of an expanding world population…Publication Date 2005
- Grassland science
- research priorities
- Tertiary education
- Agro-ecology
- environment
- grasslands
- management
- land use
- biodiversity
- conservation
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSite degradation occurs mainly through deterioration of the soil's capacity to capture and store water, as well as the loss of organic matter or the accumulation of salts or other toxic…Publication Date 2004-05-01
- soil bulk density
- organic matter
- land use
- Northeast Mexico
- land degradation
- Library Collection RecordAbstract. Tendency to crust is a potentially useful index for assessing soil degradation and for assisting land use planning in South Africa. In this study, the influence of land use, geology and…Publication Date 2004
- Crusting
- dispersible clay
- erosion
- land use
- soil degradation
- vegetation cover
- degradation
- management
- policies
- ecology
- fire
- Soil Condition
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Aim Wildlife and pastoral peoples have lived side-by-side in the Mara ecosystem of south-western Kenya for at least 2000 years. Recent changes in human population and landuse are…Publication Date 2004
- Kenya
- Maasai Mara
- pastoralism
- rangelands
- bomas
- livestock
- wildlife
- land use
- conservation
- national parks
- tourism
- Economic Aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAim To determine whether patterns of avian species turnover reflect either biome or climate transitions at a regional scale, and whether anthropogenic landscape transformation affects those patterns…Publication Date 2004
- Avian species turnover
- ?-diversity
- biome
- heterogeneity
- spatial congruence
- birds
- biodiversity
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- climate
- landscape ecology
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the melding of two discourses in southeastern Zimbabwe: land reform and wildlife management. The former seeks to redistribute large, [`]under-utilized' landholdings to…Publication Date 2004
- Zimbabwe
- wildlife management
- land reform
- Campfire
- political ecology
- Lowveld
- Community based natural resource management
- management
- conservation
- land use
- socio-economic aspects
- politics
- wildlife
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper investigates the ways in which national and regional policies relate to farming activities and concerns amongst the rural population in an area of southern Africa. The struggle to make a…Publication Date 2004
- Smallholder agriculture
- Rural livelihoods
- drylands
- diversification
- southern Africa
- policies
- subsistence agriculture
- rural areas
- socio-economic aspects
- Poverty
- land use
- land reform
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is a pressing need for an objective, repeatable, systematic and spatially explicit measure of land degradation. In northeastern South Africa (SA), there are large areas of the former homelands…Publication Date 2004
- land degradation
- NDVI values
- rangelands
- South Africa
- degradation
- land use
- remote sensing
- rainfall
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe role of the hydrological cycle in contributing to the livelihoods of rural communities is often said to be important, but clear evidence of this is rarely offered. Furthermore, where such aspects…Publication Date 2004
- Green water
- Blue water
- Rural livelihoods
- hydrological cycle
- land use change
- hydrology
- land use
- ecology
- rural areas
- rainfall
- runoff
- agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn arid and semi-arid areas, total evaporation is a major component of the hydrological cycle and seasonal water shortages and drought are common. In these areas, the role of land use and land use…Publication Date 2004
- Green water
- Blue water
- Hydrological model
- land use change
- land use
- management
- non-grazing resources
- rainfall
- hydrology
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEnvironmental policies in African rangelands affect development and welfare as well as environmental measures. Biodiversity is widely perceived as declining, and environments as undergoing…Publication Date 2004
- environmental policy
- African rangelands
- Environmental discourse
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Serengeti
- Mara
- land use
- Land privatisation
- Commercial cultivation
- Biodiversity decline
- policies
- rangelands
- biodiversity
- degradation
- management
- decision support systems
- pastoralism
- system economics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRecent attempts to streamline the identification of areas requiring immediate conservation attention have resulted in the development of prioritisation procedures that identify areas of biodiversity…Publication Date 2004
- biodiversity
- conservation
- Land cover change
- Land use suitability
- land use
- savanna
- management
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe abundance and distribution patterns of four threatened species of bustards (Eupodotis caerulescens, E. barrowii, E. melanogaster and Neotis denhami) in 3200 km2 of montane grasslands in the…Publication Date 2004
- Bustards
- South Africa
- distribution patterns
- Conservation status
- grasslands
- birds
- land use
- biodiversity
- monitoring
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany external effects of land use change are based on modifications of lateral flows of soil, water, air, fire or organisms. Lateral flows can be intercepted by filters and thus the severity and…Publication Date 2004
- biodiversity
- Filters
- fire
- Lateral flows
- Scale effects
- Watershed functions
- land use
- policies
- fire ecology
- species richness
- vegetation dynamics
- stakeholders
- hydrology
- management
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate, topography, vegetation and land use interact to influence fire regimes. Variable fire regimes may promote landscape heterogeneity, diversification in vegetation pattern and biotic diversity…Publication Date 2004
- Botswana
- Fire exclusion
- fire management
- Landsat
- landscape heterogeneity
- Landscape metric
- Patch characteristic
- prescribed fire
- Principal components analysis
- South Africa
- land use
- fire
- fire ecology
- grasslands
- climate
- vegetation dynamics
- biodiversity
- ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSeveral U.S. rangeland areas recently have been designated as national monuments to protect scientifically or culturally important resources. Typically recreation and livestock uses have been…Publication Date 2003-11-01
- recreation areas
- recreation users
- sociodemographic characteristics
- land use
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordOff-road military vehicle traffic is a major consideration in the management of military lands. The objective of this study was to determine the impacts of military tracked M1A1 heavy combat tank…Publication Date 2003-07-01
- rocks
- soil conservation
- military lands
- vehicles
- desert soils
- vegetation cover
- land management
- land use
- soil erosion
- dry seasons
- wet season
- forbs
- shrubs
- sediment yield
- plant litter
- grasses
- New Mexico
- military lands
- soil stability
- site recovery
- seasonal drought
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Cape Province of South Africa has a long history of human occupation and utilisation; the impact of colonial settlement (late 17th century onwards) on agriculture has been especially…Publication Date 2003
- soil erosion
- soil conservation
- Land use policy
- Environmental history
- South Africa
- conservation
- land use
- agriculture
- degradation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAssessing the impacts of climatic and, in particular, land use changes on rates of soil erosion by water is the objective of many national and international research projects. However, over the last…Publication Date 2003
- gully erosion
- climate change
- land use change
- sediment yield
- techniques
- thresholds
- Flow hydraulics
- rainfall
- topography
- soils
- infiltration
- drainage
- models
- erosion control
- connectivity
- land use
- erosion
- runoff
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGullied and ungullied catchments in four areas of deeply weathered saprolite in the Middle Veld of Swaziland can be successfully separated (p<0.01) using discriminant analysis based on area and…Publication Date 2003
- gully erosion
- thresholds
- discriminant analysis
- Swaziland
- land use
- soil erosion
- rangelands
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper draws on recent empirical studies of changing land and water use in semi-arid Africa to identify socioeconomic and political dynamics and discusses their implications for current policy…Publication Date 2003
- Decentralization
- land tenure
- Mali
- Kenya
- Botswana
- South Africa
- land reform
- land use
- socio-economic aspects
- politics
- policies
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAcocks measured representative sites of good condition grassland in the 1940's that were re-sampled approximately 50 years later in order to compare the effect of commercial versus communal…Publication Date 2003
- grasslands
- land use
- commercial agriculture
- communal farming
- grazing
- forage quality
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLittle is known regarding the effects of land use on soil organic matter status and earthworm communities in South African soils. For that reason the effects of the main agricultural land uses in the…Publication Date 2003
- earthworms
- Soil organic C
- microbial biomass
- pastures
- Arable crops
- forests
- Oxisols
- South Africa
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Soil Condition
- soil fertility
- invertebrates
- agriculture
- management
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA study on grasshopper assemblage response to seasonal grazing, rotational grazing, continuous resting and continuous grazing was undertaken in the eastern Karoo, South Africa. Rotationally-grazed…Publication Date 2003
- seasonal grazing
- rotational grazing
- Karoo
- grasshoppers
- South Africa
- plant production
- insects
- grazing
- land use
- rangelands
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTransformation of natural vegetation to other land-uses, such as crop cultivation and urban development, presents the most important threat to biodiversity. Plant and animal species distribution data…Publication Date 2003
- Land transformation
- Biodiversity risk
- arable land
- conservation
- species richness
- biodiversity
- land reform
- land use
- policies
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study investigates the practical and financial implications of alternative strategies for meeting explicit conservation goals on the Agulhas Plain, South Africa. This is an area of exceptional…Publication Date 2003
- conservation planning
- off-reserve conservation
- Protected area network
- incentives
- Economic Aspects
- conservation
- biodiversity
- Alien invasive species
- agriculture
- land use
- management
- legislation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe semi-arid savannah environment (SASE) of sub-Saharan Africa are characterized by low erratic rainfall which result to high risk of droughts, intra-seasonal dry spells and frequent food insecurity…Publication Date 2003
- Rainwater harvesting
- River basin
- Fanya juu
- Fanya chini
- food production
- water scarcity
- rainfall
- land use
- subsistence agriculture
- Economic Aspects
- drought
- conservation
- hydrology
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe examined relationships between vegetation and soil nutrients along rainfall and land use gradients in the Kalahari. Soil organic carbon (SOC) was significantly lower where reduced rainfall and…Publication Date 2003
- soil organic carbon
- soil organic nitrogen
- rainfall gradient
- land-use gradient
- Kalahari
- savanna
- Botswana
- soil nutrition
- rainfall
- grazing
- grasslands
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of intensive grazing and browsing of domestic stock and wildlife on the number of species and abundance of vegetation was investigated in the Hoanib River catchment, north-western Namibia…Publication Date 2003
- vegetation impact
- Arid Environment
- intensive grazing
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- grasslands
- grazing
- livestock
- wildlife
- land use
- drought
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe numbers of livestock and wildlife that can be supported in an arid environment such as the Hoanib River catchment, north-western Namibia, are determined by annual and seasonal availability of…Publication Date 2003
- Non-equilibrium system
- vegetation assessment
- Arid Environment
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- livestock
- wildlife
- grazing
- rainfall
- land use
- piosphere
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2002-12-01
- grazing
- range management
- rangelands
- sustainability
- ranching
- Colorado
- ecosystems
- plant communities
- wildlife
- land use
- conservation areas
- watersheds
- natural resource management
- population change
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge of livestock population dynamics is important to better understand functional attributes and development potential of pastoral production systems. With a focus on the Borana system of semi-…Publication Date 2002-09-01
- pastoralism
- Ethiopia
- risk assessment
- land use
- population dynamics
- mortality
- rain
- stocking rate
- cattle
- drought
- Borana
- pastoralism
- drought
- equilibrial/non-equilibrial systems
- risk management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2002-08-01
- land ownership
- range condition
- pastures
- overgrazing
- monitoring
- pastoralism
- land use
- China
- history
- livestock
- sustainability
- rangelands
- range management
- wildlife management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2002-06-01
- data collection
- agricultural land
- land use
- California
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2002-02-01
- rangelands
- Colorado
- land use
- fragmentation
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Species diversity and community structure indices (richness, diversity and evenness) are typically derived from contemporary biological survey atlases to identify conservation areas or to…Publication Date 2002
- biodiversity
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- modelling
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIt is claimed that high returns can be achieved from hunting and ecotourism operations. As a result wildlife production is a rapidly growing form of land-use in South Africa. Lately, rural African…Publication Date 2002
- Economies of scale
- Wildlife production
- livestock production
- Savannah land-use
- land use
- game farming
- commercial agriculture
- livestock
- Economic Aspects
- eco - tourism
- subsistence agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Kinangop highland grasslands, the world stronghold of the endangered Sharpe's longclaw (Macronyx sharpei), consist almost entirely of privately owned land. As human population in the…Publication Date 2002
- fragmentation
- human population
- Land subdivision
- Privately owned land
- land use
- management
- species richness
- grasslands
- birds
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRange condition at sites of differing land-use intensity at a communal farm was assessed. Vegetation, soil and termite parameters were tested for their potential as indicators. The vegetation…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- land degradation
- range condition assessment
- indicators
- soil fertility
- Termites
- biodiversity
- land-use intensity
- land use
- degradation
- rangeland condition
- communal farming
- Soil Condition
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-12-01
- population growth
- resource utilization
- food supply
- climate change
- natural resources
- land use
- environmental protection
- rangelands
- range management
- Library Collection Record
144 Water's Role
The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-12-01- water use
- water quality
- urban areas
- water supply
- water management
- land use
- Western United States
- rangelands
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-10-01
- range management
- United States
- rangelands
- history
- land use
- natural resources
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-08-01
- environmental management
- environmental policy
- land use
- land use planning
- rangelands
- United States
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-08-01
- government agencies
- Navajo Indians
- land ownership
- cooperation
- environmental assessment
- case studies
- land use
- New Mexico
- rangelands
- range management
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-08-01
- plateaus
- mixed farming
- Ordos Plateau
- green banking
- arid lands
- land use
- biodiversity
- xerophytes
- wildlife
- China
- environmental protection
- sustainability
- rangelands
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThe objectives of this Colorado study were to assess primary reasons ranchers choose to stay or sell the ranch, compare the motivations for ranching between a traditional agriculturally based county…Publication Date 2001-07-01
- public domain
- geographical variation
- urban development
- urbanization
- surveys
- land ownership
- ranching
- land use
- farmers' attitudes
- issues and policy
- profitability
- rangelands
- Colorado
- rangeland policy
- regulation
- survey
- public lands
- urban development
- land use conversion
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-04-01
- ranching
- Colorado
- land use
- public domain
- Moffat County, Colorado
- Rout County, Colorado
- ranchers
- farmers' attitudes
- regional surveys