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- 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 RecordAbstract not available
- stocking rate
- rangelands
- range management
- ranching
- planning
- grazing management
- grazing intensity
- grazing
- animal production
- animal nutrition
- animal husbandry
- animal health
- animal feeding
- weed control
- sustainability
- sheep
- Hawaii
- recreation
- grazing systems
- goats
- fencing
- cattle
- 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 RecordSummary in English and Afrikaans. Also issue on CD-ROMPublication Date 2006
- rangeland management
- pasture management
- Economic Aspects
- vegetation dynamics
- pastoralism
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGrazing lands in Eritrea are degraded due to decades of overstocking and consequent overgrazing. Since the rangelands are accessible to entire village communities, organisation and coordinated…Publication Date 2007
- rangelands
- degradation
- communal farming
- subsistence agriculture
- livestock
- management
- grazing
- Commercial farming
- cattle
- household income studies
- forage
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2003
- rangelands
- rangeland management
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Savanna biome covers around 60% of sub-Saharan Africa. The goods and services it provides are utilised and often depended upon by rural communities, commercial farmers and managers of…Publication Date 2011
- remote sensing
- Savanna ecology
- biomass
- spatial ecology
- spatial analysis
- plant biomass
- remote sensing
- fire ecology
- management
- MODIS
- Nature reserves
- savanna
- mapping
- 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 RecordThis study investigated rural livelihoods in two contrasting environments in the upper and lower reaches of the Gariep River: Sehlabathebe in the Lesotho highlands, and the Richtersveld in the…Publication Date 2006
- Rural development
- Lesotho
- Poor
- agriculture
- sustainability
- household income studies
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and Afrikaans. Also issued on CD-ROM.Publication Date 2006
- savanna
- ecology
- restoration ecology
- Alien invasive species
- management
- South Africa
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAccelerated erosion is a major environmental, social and economical threat in South Africa. It is estimated that in excess of 400 million tones of soil is lost every year in South Africa, with much…Publication Date 2008
- soil erosion
- management
- bushveld
- rangelands
- savanna
- Game Reserve
- rainfall
- restoration ecology
- 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 RecordAbstract not available
- water
- rangelands
- forestry
- educational institutions
- training
- teaching
- Colorado
- 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
- 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 RecordSound understanding of the influence of scale and context on ecological patternprocess relationships is lacking in many systems. The hierarchical patch dynamics paradigm (HPDP) provides a framework…Publication Date 2008
- vegetation dynamics
- savanna
- riparian ecology
- South Africa
- Kruger National Park
- Savanna ecology
- spatial ecology
- management
- woody plants
- indigenous encroaching shrubs
- modelling
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordWildfire prediction and management is an issue of safety and security for many rural communities in South Africa. Wildfire prediction and early warning systems can assist in saving lives,…Publication Date 2006
- vegetation mapping
- South Africa
- remote sensing
- fire ecology
- Mpumalanga
- Savanna ecology
- ground cover fires
- grassland fires
- grassland
- management
- 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 widespread provision of water points in protected areas in semi-arid savannas has supported associated increases in cumulative grazing pressure. This study addresses the management implications…Publication Date 2011
- water
- piosphere
- management
- savanna
- grazing
- nature reserve
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa
- 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 review of Taking action on climate change: Long-term mitigation scenarios for South AfricaPublication Date 2010
- climate change
- policiy
- environment
- modelling
- greenhouse gases
- mitigation
- gas emissions
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordOver the past few years, agribusiness, investment funds and government agencies have been acquiring long-term rights over large areas of land in Africa. Together with applicable national and…Publication Date 2011
- policies
- land use
- Economic Aspects
- politics
- International Institute for Environment and Development policy
- research
- climate
- ecology
- urban
- economics
- sustainability
- legislation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this report is to provide an analysis of the impact of the global financial crisis ("the crisis") on financial flows to the water sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To gain…Publication Date 2010
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record
- rangelands
- information dissemination
- training
- teaching
- Colorado
- Library Collection RecordNumerous studies have documented the coexistence of two different ranching communities in the western US: ranchers motivated primarily by profit and those motivated primarily by lifestyle. While…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordFragmentation of wildlands is one of the most important components of global change with profound but critically underexamined impacts. A need exists to understand how fragmentation impacts…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordThe Bi-State DPS comprises a genetically unique meta-population of greater sage-grouse that defines the far southwestern limit of the species' range. This genetic distinction may be the result…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordDrought can have major impacts on rangeland productivity and remains highly unpredictable. Â The objective of this study was to determine the drought resistance and resilience of introduced cool-…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordLegumes are an important component of northern temperate pastures, improving forage productivity and quality at low cost by inputting biologically fixed nitrogen into the agro-ecosystem. Management…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordMedusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae (L.) Nevski) is one of the most damaging invasive plants in North America. It is prolific and spreads quickly, is unpalatable to livestock, and significantly…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection Record4-H is the youth education program of each state's land grant university. As of the early 2000's most western US states had, at one time or another, a 4-H range, forestry, wildlife or other…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordA collaborative project is being conducted in North Dakota to develop riparian complex ecological site descriptions (RCESDs) and state-and-transition models (STMs). A STM for a riparian ecosystem is…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordA collaborative project is being conducted in North Dakota to develop six riparian ecological site descriptions within four watersheds. The goals of this project is to improve and strengthen the…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordA computer model was developed using monthly inputs of rainfall to predict forage production, carrying capacity (CC) and stocking rate (SR) in arid and semiarid rangelands in northern Mexico. Using…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available
- weed control
- grazing
- brush control
- woody plants
- goats
- Library Collection RecordA growing and sometimes controversial body of literature is the valuation of ecosystem services (ES). ES valuation is a key component in evaluating how human dimensions interact with landscape…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordA habitat monitoring program was initiated in 1991to mitigate long-standing conflicts concerning forage allocation among cattle, elk, and deer in southeastern British Columbia. The sites were re-…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordA new report from the National Academy of Sciences reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordA primary objective of the currently funded USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant “Building a Better Capstone for Multidisciplinary Education†is to inventory and characterize senior capstones.…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordA question of Brazilian ranchers is to identify the genotype of sheep and goats that will be most productive when finished on native rangeland in the semi-arid region (Caatinga) of northeast Brazil.…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordA serious problem facing land managers of many prairie remnant of the northern Great Plains is the invasion and persistence of introduced cool-season perennial grasses, such as smooth brome (Bromus…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordA suite of nonlethal deterrents and strategies are available to livestock producers to aid in the reduction or prevention of livestock-predator conflict. These tools include turbofladry, livestock…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordA telephone survey was conducted in the winter and spring of 2011-12 to determine private grazing lease arrangements in Idaho. A random sample of lessees and lessors of private forage was drawn from…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordA vulnerability assessment is one tool that land managers can use to inform rangeland management decisions. As part of a distributed vulnerability assessment of the impact of climate change on…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordAccelerated soil erosion, gully formation, and stream channel entrenchment undermine hydrologic function, rangeland productivity, and wildlife habitat. On Bureau of Land Management's 13,000-acre…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available
- Weeds
- shrubs
- grazing
- woody plants
- weed control
- recreation
- grazing systems
- grazing management
- grasses
- goats
- Library Collection RecordAccording to mammalogists, anthropologists, historians, and newspaper accounts, white-tailed jackrabbits (Lepus townsendii) were once an important faunal component of mid-to upper elevation sagebrush…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordAccurate and precise estimation of herbage mass is essential for livestock management, because herbage allowance depends on it estimation. Difficulties in estimation arise because of great…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordAchieving conservation goals in California's spatially and temporally variable grasslands requires management approaches that are both opportunistic and adaptive. Ecological site classifications…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordAcute and growing social and legal conflict over regulation of non-point source pollution in Washington State is straining proactive efforts to improve water quality, especially as it relates to…Publication Date 2014
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