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- 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordPresentation and Discussion Notes from the Third Roundtable: May 28, 2009Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Senegal
- 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
- 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 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 RecordTrue intestinal digestibility of dry matter (DM), rumen-undegraded dietary protein (UDP) and amino acids of cowpea, silverleaf desmodium and Brachystegia spiciformis (musasa) were estimated. The true…Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEditorialPublication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection Record
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- Library Collection RecordSmallholder dairy farmers in Natural Region II, especially in Chikwaka Communal Area, adopted Acacia angustissima, Calliandra calothyrsus and Leucaena leucocephala in the 1995/96 season as…Publication Date 2009
- dairy
- Fodder
- small-holder
- Tree
- yields
- plant production
- communal farming
- animal nutrition
- forage quality
- fodder production
- soils
- management
- Zimbabwe
- 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 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 RecordThe Southwest Climate Change Network is designed to foster dialog and exchange of reliable science and policy information among climate experts and other scientists, natural resource managers,…Publication Date 2009
- climate change
- climate data
- Impact assessment
- Arizona
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Texas
- United States
- Utah
- 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 RecordDescription not available.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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordThis paper describes a procedure for evaluating the desertification risk in threatened areas. The procedure is based on an eight-equation dynamic model of a generic human-resource system that can be…Publication Date 2008
- Desertification risk
- System Dynamics
- Alternative long-term states
- desertification
- modelling
- management
- grasslands
- sustainability
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn Kenya, lands surrounding wildlife protected areas (PAs), referred to as dispersal areas, have undergone widespread land use changes, but these have been little studied. This study investigated…Publication Date 2008
- conservation
- agriculture
- national parks
- land use
- grazing
- biodiversity
- disturbance
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is a perception that sustained frequent fires cause nitrogen limitation over the long term (50–100 y) by volatilizing the nitrogen in soil, plant biomass and litter. Here we test this…Publication Date 2008
- soils
- fire ecology
- management
- Nitrogen cycle
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper documents a continuous ~ 44,000-yr pollen record derived from the Mfabeni Peatland on the Maputaland Coastal Plain. A detailed fossil pollen analysis indicates the existence of extensive…Publication Date 2008
- climate change
- Forest history
- Maputaland
- Africa
- pollen
- human impacts
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSoil erosion and subsequent degradation has been a contributor to societal collapse in the past and is one of the major expressions of desertification in arid regions. The revised universal soil loss…Publication Date 2008
- Arid and semi-arid regions
- cryptobiotic soil crusts
- cryptogams
- Cyanobacteria
- Erosion modeling
- Universal Soil Loss Equation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the low-rainfall areas of much of Africa and Asia, small ruminants represent the principal economic output, contributing a large share of the income of farmers. Animal numbers have increased over…Publication Date 2008
- small ruminants
- Feeding strategies
- Cereal crop residues
- Agro-industrial by-products
- Fodder shrubs
- Dry environment
- technology adoption
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEthnobotanical field studies in the Graaff-Reinet and Murraysburg regions (southeastern Karoo) have revealed a wealth of traditional knowledge on medicinal plants and their uses amongst elderly…Publication Date 2008
- Cape Dutch culture
- Ethnobotanical survey
- Khoi-San culture
- medicinal plants
- Phytotherapy
- Southeastern Karoo
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reviews the results of recent research on riparian vegetation recovery following the clearance of invasive alien plants. In Fynbos, Grassland and Savanna Biomes, riparian ecosystems were…Publication Date 2008
- Alien vegetation control
- fire
- Fynbos
- grassland
- biological invasions
- restoration
- riparian ecosystems
- savanna
- seed banks
- Alien invasive species
- management
- restoration ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- ecosystem services
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn 1998, a restoration field trial was initiated in a catchment near Wellington (Western Cape, South Africa) to determine whether fynbos riparian scrub vegetation cleared of woody invasive alien…Publication Date 2008
- biological invasions
- fire
- Follow-up treatment
- management
- restoration ecology
- Alien invasive species
- seeds
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordInvasion by alien woody species is a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystem function in the Fynbos and Grassland Biomes of South Africa, and riparian areas are particularly affected. Large stands…Publication Date 2008
- Acacia longifolia
- Grassy fynbos
- invasive alien plants
- riparian vegetation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRecovery of indigenous species subsequent to the clearing of invasive alien plants (IAPs) is crucial for ecosystem recovery to occur. However, cleared sites are often just left in the hope that…Publication Date 2008
- biological invasions
- Ecosystem repair
- exotic plants
- diversity
- resilience
- restoration
- Working for Water
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem dynamics
- monitoring
- restoration ecology
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWorking for Water forms part of the Expanded Public Works Programme of the South African Government, aimed at the sustainable management of natural resources through the control and management of…Publication Date 2008
- Clearing unit reference values
- costs
- invasive alien plants
- net present value
- Person days
- riparian
- WIMS
- Workload
- Alien invasive species
- Economic Aspects
- management
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impacts of invasive alien plants (IAP) and their subsequent clearing by the Working for Water Programme (WfW) on (a) overstorey (woody plant) vegetation structure, (b) invasion intensity (…Publication Date 2008
- biological invasions
- Ecosystem repair
- grasslands
- Overstorey aerial cover
- restoration ecology
- savannas
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSolanum mauritianum Scopoli (Solanaceae; 'bugweed') is a major weed of natural vegetation and plantations in the eastern higher rainfall regions of South Africa. This study assessed the…Publication Date 2008
- Ecosystem repair
- integrated control
- non-native species
- restoration ecology
- weed management
- Working for Water
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- hydrology
- grasslands
- savanna
- herbicides
- seed banks
- germination
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRiparian zones are complex disturbance-mediated systems that are highly susceptible to invasion by alien plants. They are prioritized in most alien-plant management initiatives in South Africa. The…Publication Date 2008
- biological invasions
- Community recovery
- invasive alien plants
- restoration ecology
- Soil-stored seeds
- species assemblages
- seed banks
- Alien invasive species
- disturbance
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 2008
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- Alien invasive species
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 2008
- conservation
- management
- ecosystem dynamics
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 2008
- fire ecology
- management
- conservation
- national parks
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlthough a variety of hierarchical image segmentation procedures for remote sensing imagery have been published, none of them specifically integrates remote sensing time series in spatial or…Publication Date 2008
- Hierarchical image segmentation
- Fast Fourier transform
- NDVI time series
- vegetation mapping
- mapping
- remote sensing
- ecosystem dynamics
- ecology
- Africa
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