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- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470698716.ch20.abs This chapter contains section titled: * Early Grassland Soils * How did Grasslands Arise? * Evolutionary ProcessesPublication Date 2008
- dry continental interiors
- advent of grasses
- urine-impregnated middens
- plant fossils
- ancient aridland ecosystems
- grasslands
- palaeobotany
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470292136.ch4.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Objectives for This Chapter * Introduction * Factors Influencing the Agricultural Use of Animals * Animal Distribution…Publication Date 2008
- food production
- physiological adaptation
- buffalo
- livestock
- veterinary service
- agriculture
- management
- sustainability
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordIrrigated Pasture Production in the Central Valley of CaliforniaPublication Date 2008
- irrigated pasture
- Grazing Ecology and Management
- rangeland plants
- plant physiology
- Vegetation Management and Restoration
- Library Collection RecordIrrigated Alfalfa Management for Mediterranean and Desert ZonesPublication Date 2008
- irrigated pasture
- rangeland plants
- plant physiology
- Vegetation Management and Restoration
- climate variability
- pest management
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 2008
- Library Collection RecordDryland degradation and desertification now affect almost a billion people around the world. Tragically, the biological resources and productivity of millions of acres of land are lost to…Publication Date 2007
- arid ecosystems
- deserts
- restoration ecology
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Late Pleistocene vertebrate record of Africa contributes to our understanding of human evolution and the development of modern biotic environments. This article explores this record, paying…Publication Date 2007
- Africa
- Ancient DNA
- Body size changes
- Bovids
- carnivores
- climate change
- Equids
- Extinctions
- Fossils
- Late Pleistocene
- Madagascar
- mammals
- Mid-Pleistocene
- Modern human origins
- Paleontology
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordCurrent knowledge of the vegetation response to climate changes in tropical Africa and particularly the reconstitution of stand dynamics is severely limited by the scarcity of long and complete, well…Publication Date 2007
- African Humid Period
- freshwater algae
- paleobiodiversity
- plant Migration
- palynology
- pollen
- tropical Africa
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary Grasses are one of the great successes of evolution. They occur in nearly every habitat from impoverished Antarctic wastes to the lush tropics and are dominant over vast stretches of…Publication Date 2007
- fire ecology
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe carbon- and oxygen-isotopic composition of surficial meteoric carbonate (soils, groundwater) is widely used in paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Quaternary. Temperature, the oxygen-…Publication Date 2007
- Meteoric Carbonate
- carbon isotopes
- Oxygen Isotopes
- Devils Hole
- soil
- C4 plants
- palaeoclimate
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary In this chapter, we discuss climatic fluctuations in northern and eastern Africa during the Holocene and in particular the middle Holocene. The major emphasis is on the Sahara and the…Publication Date 2007
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe pollen record of the late Pleistocene in Africa is poorly resolved due to the paucity of sites combined with the fragmented nature of most sequences. A vegetation history of the continent can,…Publication Date 2007
- palynology
- Vegetation history
- Last Glacial Maximum
- Biomes
- Tropical rain forest
- savannas
- Arid and semiarid biomes
- Afromontane region
- Mediterranean climate regions
- climate change
- Refugium hypothesis
- palaeoecology
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- palaeoenvironmental data
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe world population has increased from 2–10 million at the dawn of settled agriculture about 10–12 millennium ago to 6.5 billion in 2006, and may stabilize at 10–12 billion by 2100. Most of…Publication Date 2007
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- pastoralism
- soils
- management
- plant production
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAfrican lakes show considerable dynamism over a range of timescales, underlining the large changes in precipitation-evaporation balance that have characterized Quaternary climates in Africa. On a…Publication Date 2007
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces multiple problems. The main one is improving the lives of the 30% of its population that suffers from extreme poverty and food insecurity. As more than 70% of the…Publication Date 2007
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBook by Karen Launchbaugh et al. concerning Grazing, Rangeland Management, Livestock and other subjectsPublication Date 2006
- grazing
- grassland management
- livestock
- Idaho
- 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 2006
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
- cattle
- endangered species
- ranching
- restoration
- United States
- urbanization
- Library Collection RecordAims to advance the science behind the practice of restoring ecosystems, while exploring ways in which restoration ecology can inform basic ecological questions. This work provides a comprehensive…Publication Date 2006
- restoration ecology
- Library Collection RecordGrassland in most cases is a man-made ecosystem. It covers large areas as a result of logging and slash-and-burn agriculture. It is maintained by regularly burning and cattle grazing. In contrast to…Publication Date 2006
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 2006
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis book is primarily aimed at agricultural scientists, educationalists, extensionists and decision-makers with interests in the grassland and land-use fields. It brings together information on the…Publication Date 2005
- Library Collection Record
172 GRASSLAND SOILS
No Abstract available.Publication Date 2005- grasslands
- soil
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA powerpoint PresentationÂPublication Date 2005
- 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"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 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
184 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 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
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