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- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article. N. Jürgens, D. H. Haarmeyer, J. Luther-Mosebach, J. Dengler, M. Finckh & U. Schmiedel ( eds ). Klaus Hess Publishers , Göttingen and Windhoek , 2010…Publication Date 2012
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article. By Ross. A. Bradstock, A. Malcolm Gill and Richard J. Williams, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 2012. xi?+?333 pp. Price A$79.95 (paperback; also available…Publication Date 2012
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract available.Publication Date 2011
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordEnvironmental Law provides a comprehensive and succinct examination of the entire environmental law landscape in South Africa. The second edition includes a new chapter on climate change, and also…Publication Date 2011
- legislation
- climate change
- Environmental impact assessment
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Wiley-Blackwell, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Hardcover and softcover, 201pp ISBN 9781405198943 (hardcover), 9781405198950 (softcover). Price £90.00/â Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Earthscan Publications, Dunstan House, 14a St Cross St, London, EC1N 8XA UK Hardcover or softcover, 184 pp ISBN 9781849711449 (hardcover), 9781849711456 (softcover). Price US\$145.00 (hardcover…Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2011, CSIRO Publishing, 150 Oxford Street, PO Box 1139, Collingwood, VIC 3036, Australia 144 pages, softcover ISBN 9780643094437. Price AU\$49.95Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Earthscan Publications, Dunstan House, 14a St Cross St, London, EC1N 8XA, UK Hardcover, 360 pp ISBN 9781844079162. Price £60.00Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Wiley-Blackwell, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Softcover, 448 pp ISBN 9781405177856. Price £45.00/€54.00Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Klaus Hess Publishers, Sudetenland-Str. 18, 37085 Göttingen, Germany; and PO Box 90624, Windhoek, Namibia Hardcover, 3 volumes, XLIV + 1375 pp + CD-ROM ISBN 9789991657301 (Namibia and South…Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, CSIRO Publishing, PO Box 1139, Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia 416 pp, softcover ISBN 978?0-6430?9402-4. Price AU\$99.95Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Wiley-Blackwell, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK 211 pages, hardcover and softcover ISBN 978?0-470?66101-7 (hardcover), 978?0-470?66102-4 (softcover). Price …Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742, USA 323 pp, hardcover ISBN 978?1-4200?4739-4. Price US\$144.95Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe second edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is a resource for understanding and analysing global disaster risk today and in the future (Ban Ki-moon,…Publication Date 2011
- drought
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record2008, Springer, PO Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands 306 pages, hardcover or softcover ISBN 978?1?4020?6848?5 (hardcover), 978?1?4020?6849?2 (softcover). Price €119.95 / €59.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Livestock grazing is often viewed as having detrimental effects on plants and plant communities. Livestock grazing can, however, be managed to be an effective tool for vegetation management…Publication Date 2010
- livestock
- grazing
- nutrition
- ecology
- management
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- fire ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470609880.ch8.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * Hominid Exploitation of Wetlands Environments and Resources * Early Hominins: Colonization of New…Publication Date 2010
- exploitation of wetlands environments and foods by pre-sapiens hominins
- early hominins - colonization of new environments
- preconditions for encephalization - physiological considerations
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA thorough understanding of the behavior of fire in grasslands is critical to the minimization of the impact of fires on agricultural and pastoral land as well as the successful management of the…Publication Date 2010
- fire
- grasslands
- management
- species richness
- climate change
- fire ecology
- agriculture
- pastoralism
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordConservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology…Publication Date 2010
- conservation
- climate change
- socio-economic aspects
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- fire ecology
- invasive species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordOver the past decade, economic and agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has resumed. The secular downward trend in agricultural prices ended in the early 1990s; growing incomes in Asia and…Publication Date 2010
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record2007, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK 336 pp, hardcover and softcover ISBN 978?0?19?857065?3 (hardcover), 978?0?19?857066?0 (softcover). Price £60 / £29.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2008, James Currey Publishers, Box 242, 266 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DL, UK 312 pages, softcover and hardcover ISBN 978-0-85255-990-1 (softcover), 978-0-85255-991-8 (hardcover). Price £17.95 (…Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, CSIRO Publishing, PO Box 1139, Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia 184 pages, softcover ISBN 978-0-64309-527-4. Price AU\$49.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Island Press, 1718 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009, USA 396pp, softcover and hardcover ISBN 978?1-59726?671-0 (softcover), 978?1-59726?670-3 (hardcover). Price US\$95 (…Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2008, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK 305 pages, hardcover and softcover ISBN 978-0-19-852918-7 (hardcover), 978-0-19-852919-4 (softcover). Price £70 / £34.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- 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 RecordThis chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * Why has woody plant abundance increased on rangelands? * Traditional perspectives on woody plant encroachment * Emerging perspectives on woody…Publication Date 2009
- southern 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 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 RecordThis handbook, updated edition of the 2002 edition, seeks to address planning, monitoring, and evaluation in the context of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and its evaluation policy.…Publication Date 2009
- planning
- monitoring
- decision-making
- management
- sustanable development
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis article is a world-wide overview of plant domestication and the origins of agriculture. It focuses on the archaeological record: the what, where, and when of these processes, with a brief…Publication Date 2008
- agriculture
- China
- crops
- domestication
- eastern North America
- Formative
- Maize (corn)
- Mesoamerica
- Near East
- Neolithic
- New Guinea
- Rice
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- wheat
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordMixed farming (the ‘Iron Age’) was introduced to the summer rainfall areas of southern Africa early in the first millennium AD and did not evolve from the local Later Stone Age. In southern…Publication Date 2008
- Bantu-speakers
- Hunter-gatherers
- Indian Ocean trade
- [`]Iron Age'
- Mapungubwe
- mixed farming
- summer rainfall
- Zimbabwe culture
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470292136.ch7.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Objectives for This Chapter * Introduction * Defining Biodiversity * The Economic Value of Biodiversity * Threats to…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- wildlife conservation
- ecosystem
- habitat destruction
- invasive species
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- Alien invasive species
- indigenous encroaching species
- 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 Record
36 Savanna
Savannas are characterized by the coexistence of trees and grasses and occur largely in the seasonal tropics between the equatorial rainforests and mid-latitude desert ecosystems. This article…Publication Date 2008- climate change
- Deciduous
- Evergreen
- fire
- grazing
- herbivory
- phenology
- Seasonal tropics
- soils
- Tree and grass competition
- savanna
- ecology
- animal impact
- grasslands
- rainfall
- southern Africa
- 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 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 RecordCarrying capacity is typically defined as the maximum population size that can be supported indefinitely by a given environment, but there are at least 10 different specific definitions used in basic…Publication Date 2008
- Density dependence
- Law of the minimum
- Logistic population growth model
- population regulation
- population size
- Sustainable yield
- carrying capacity
- cattle
- ecology
- rangelands
- southern Africa
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 2006
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- Africa
- 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