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- Library Collection RecordAs a textbook, the volume is well organised, with introductory chapters on the scope and key concepts of restoration ecology, followed by chapters on its ecological foundations – landscape,…Publication Date 2014
- restoration ecology
- Europe
- USA
- Australia
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordChanging climate adds a very significant dimension to the complex problem of ensuring that agriculture worldwide can feed the burgeoning human population. Ensuring food security must reduce…Publication Date 2009
- climate change
- plant production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn overview of ecological models of grasslands and their research questions is presented. For the purpose of this article, models are regarded as a simplified and formalized representation of…Publication Date 2008
- competition
- disturbance
- Ecosystem modeling
- Grassland dynamics
- grazing
- Optimal life-history strategies
- primary production
- Remote sensing data
- Spatially explicit models
- succession
- modelling
- ecosystem ecology
- community
- vegetation dynamics
- plant production
- 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 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 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 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