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- Library Collection RecordThe relationships between the spatial distribution of gully erosion and topographic thresholds in the form of slope angle, position and configuration, as well as land use change in the form of…Publication Date 2009
- gully erosion
- Abandoned lands
- Slope configuration
- Stream power index
- Topographic threshold
- erosion
- land use
- degradation
- GIS
- remote sensing
- policies
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordEnvironmental policies in African rangelands affect development and welfare as well as environmental measures. Biodiversity is widely perceived as declining, and environments as undergoing…Publication Date 2004
- environmental policy
- African rangelands
- Environmental discourse
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Serengeti
- Mara
- land use
- Land privatisation
- Commercial cultivation
- Biodiversity decline
- policies
- rangelands
- biodiversity
- degradation
- management
- decision support systems
- pastoralism
- system economics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe need to implement sustainable resource management regimes for semi-arid and arid rangelands is acute as non-adapted grazing strategies lead to irreversible environmental problems such as…Publication Date 2009
- adaptation
- climate change
- Arid rangelands
- Namibia
- Bio-economic simulation approach
- land use
- sustainability
- management
- socio-economic aspects
- grazing
- modelling
- ecology
- savanna
- stocking rates
- decision support systems
- vegetation dynamics
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPatchy vegetation patterns are an expression of soil surface conditions, water redistribution on the soil surface and landscape function. Their origin is attributed by many a scholar to the…Publication Date 2009
- patchiness
- Moisture dependencies
- Soil crusting
- Runoff generation
- Dysfunctional
- Soil Condition
- rainfall
- runoff
- Aerial Photographs
- Alien invasive species
- disturbance
- erosion
- land use
- grazing
- landscape ecology
- degradation
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study looks at the impact of subdivision and sedentarization of pastoral lands on wildlife numbers and production in a savanna ecosystem of southern Kenya. The study uses aerial counts over a…Publication Date 2009
- land fragmentation
- rangelands
- Maasai
- settlement
- conservation
- land reform
- land use
- savanna
- ecosystem dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- wildlife
- management
- grazing
- grasslands
- socio-economic aspects
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIt is becoming increasingly difficult to manage and expand statutory conservation areas (i.e., parks and formally protected areas). Therefore, alternative opportunities for land conservation merit…Publication Date 2009
- Private protected areas
- stewardship
- Gap analysis
- Systematic conservation planning
- conservation easements
- Private land conservation
- conservation
- management
- biodiversity
- land use
- Little Karoo
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe construction and validation of a user-friendly index to measure attitude of landowners towards conservation of Overberg Coastal Renosterveld (OCR), a critically endangered, distinctive grassy-…Publication Date 2005
- landowners
- Perceived benefit
- Willingness to conserve
- Cronbach Alpha
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- grasslands
- conservation agriculture
- land use
- eco - tourism
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordHabitat degradation through over-grazing and wood collection is especially prevalent in developing countries such as South Africa. As human populations expand and the demand for land increases, the…Publication Date 2005
- Lizards
- ecosystems
- disturbance
- reptiles
- biodiversity
- human impact
- savanna
- Traditional medicine
- South Africa
- degradation
- conservation
- land use
- species richness
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRecent attempts to streamline the identification of areas requiring immediate conservation attention have resulted in the development of prioritisation procedures that identify areas of biodiversity…Publication Date 2004
- biodiversity
- conservation
- Land cover change
- Land use suitability
- land use
- savanna
- management
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe abundance and distribution patterns of four threatened species of bustards (Eupodotis caerulescens, E. barrowii, E. melanogaster and Neotis denhami) in 3200 km2 of montane grasslands in the…Publication Date 2004
- Bustards
- South Africa
- distribution patterns
- Conservation status
- grasslands
- birds
- land use
- biodiversity
- monitoring
- 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 RecordA hybrid approach comprising literature review, field investigation and interpretation of multi-date panchromatic aerial photographs at the 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 scales over four time slices between…Publication Date 2005
- population density
- Environmental deterioration
- Long-term trends
- remote sensing
- Aerial Photographs
- socio-economic aspects
- erosion
- degradation
- rangeland condition
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordProduction-oriented research in the second half of the 20th century made impressive contributions to technical developments which helped to meet the food requirements of an expanding world population…Publication Date 2005
- Grassland science
- research priorities
- Tertiary education
- Agro-ecology
- environment
- grasslands
- management
- land use
- biodiversity
- conservation
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany external effects of land use change are based on modifications of lateral flows of soil, water, air, fire or organisms. Lateral flows can be intercepted by filters and thus the severity and…Publication Date 2004
- biodiversity
- Filters
- fire
- Lateral flows
- Scale effects
- Watershed functions
- land use
- policies
- fire ecology
- species richness
- vegetation dynamics
- stakeholders
- hydrology
- management
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate, topography, vegetation and land use interact to influence fire regimes. Variable fire regimes may promote landscape heterogeneity, diversification in vegetation pattern and biotic diversity…Publication Date 2004
- Botswana
- Fire exclusion
- fire management
- Landsat
- landscape heterogeneity
- Landscape metric
- Patch characteristic
- prescribed fire
- Principal components analysis
- South Africa
- land use
- fire
- fire ecology
- grasslands
- climate
- vegetation dynamics
- biodiversity
- ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMultiple land-use designs are becoming increasingly necessary in semi-arid Africa as growing populations focus numerous production systems onto spatially limited arable lands. Engineering distinct…Publication Date 1993
- land use
- fodder production
- agriculture
- irrigation
- livestock
- carrying capacity
- pastoralism
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordResults are presented of the diagnostic phase of a study of the [`]traditional' smallholder system of cattle production in southern Mozambique. Data were obtained over an 18-month period from…Publication Date 1991
- cattle
- subsistence agriculture
- agriculture
- commercial agriculture
- land use
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA mathematical model is presented of the subsistence pastoral system on the Makatini Flats surrounding the Pongola floodplain just south of the Mozambique border in north-eastern South Africa. The…Publication Date 1990
- modelling
- management
- subsistence agriculture
- pastoralism
- land use
- grazing
- irrigation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA versatile computerised overlay technique to analyse the capability of relatively constant and objectively measured land characteristics to sustain any defined land use was developed in FORTRAN. The…Publication Date 1984
- land use
- mapping
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAgricultural development is a complex undertaking because of the numerous factors involved, including those of a physical and non-physical nature. Land and water have often been (and are nowadays…Publication Date 1974
- agriculture
- land use
- management
- hydrology
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlthough ecological, economic and social conditions vary from country to country, the quandary of increasing pressure on limited tropical savanna resources is universal. This article reviews some of…Publication Date 1994
- savanna
- land use
- policies
- management
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand use policy is often developed without regard to historical considerations, even though policy may fail because it is familiar to local people who have found it to be inaccurate and inappropriate…Publication Date 1989
- land use
- policies
- subsistence agriculture
- management
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis article addresses the potential land use conflict between trees and cattle. The search for pasture frequently leads to the large-scale destruction of trees yet, paradoxically, when grazing land…Publication Date 1989
- cattle
- grazing
- pasture management
- communal farming
- land use
- management
- rangelands
- decision support systems
- sustainability
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 1988
- land use
- mapping
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA transition from shifting cultivation towards more intensive types of agriculture necessitates the introduction of alternative systems of cultivation. Since this change is often followed by…Publication Date 1990
- agriculture
- subsistence agriculture
- soil fertility
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe semi-arid lands of the world are characterized by low and unreliable rainfall, with lack of soil moisture during all or part of the year being the predominant limitation to vegetative growth.…Publication Date 1988
- agriculture
- irrigation
- soil moisture
- management
- erosion
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe large human and livestock populations in relation to the land area, coupled with the [`]user-right' land tenure system, makes the land use planning process in the communal lands of Zimbabwe…Publication Date 1990
- management
- land use
- policies
- politics
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper presents results of a deforestation experiment carried out with the general circulation model of the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique coupled to the Schématisation des Echanges…Publication Date 1994
- modelling
- land use
- environmental factors
- soils
- soil moisture
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe prediction of land erosion rates under different types of land use is difficult because of the large number of variables involved. This paper attempts to isolate the most important…Publication Date 1980
- land use
- erosion
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe past and present distributions of Rudd's lark are reviewed, and recent claims concerning range reduction examined. The species occurs within a geographically and altitudinally restricted…Publication Date 1988
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- birds
- grazing
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany areas of East Africa show signs of misuse of natural resources by man. An improved use of these resources can be made if land use is integrated within the boundaries of a natural ecosystem,…Publication Date 1987
- conservation
- land use
- pastoralism
- agriculture
- ecosystem ecology
- eco - tourism
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWithin the field of conservation there has been increasing concern about the fragmentation and isolation of habitats. Suggestions have been made for the implementation of [`]buffer zones' to…Publication Date 1987
- conservation
- land use
- monitoring
- satellite imagery
- remote sensing
- mapping
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe examined relationships between vegetation and soil nutrients along rainfall and land use gradients in the Kalahari. Soil organic carbon (SOC) was significantly lower where reduced rainfall and…Publication Date 2003
- soil organic carbon
- soil organic nitrogen
- rainfall gradient
- land-use gradient
- Kalahari
- savanna
- Botswana
- soil nutrition
- rainfall
- grazing
- grasslands
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of intensive grazing and browsing of domestic stock and wildlife on the number of species and abundance of vegetation was investigated in the Hoanib River catchment, north-western Namibia…Publication Date 2003
- vegetation impact
- Arid Environment
- intensive grazing
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- grasslands
- grazing
- livestock
- wildlife
- land use
- drought
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe numbers of livestock and wildlife that can be supported in an arid environment such as the Hoanib River catchment, north-western Namibia, are determined by annual and seasonal availability of…Publication Date 2003
- Non-equilibrium system
- vegetation assessment
- Arid Environment
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- livestock
- wildlife
- grazing
- rainfall
- land use
- piosphere
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRange condition at sites of differing land-use intensity at a communal farm was assessed. Vegetation, soil and termite parameters were tested for their potential as indicators. The vegetation…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- land degradation
- range condition assessment
- indicators
- soil fertility
- Termites
- biodiversity
- land-use intensity
- land use
- degradation
- rangeland condition
- communal farming
- Soil Condition
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe debate about the sustainability and productivity of communal lands, especially in comparison with privately managed land, is far from settled. Emerging theories emphasize the spatial and temporal…Publication Date 2000
- Vegetation Change
- vegetation diversity
- semi-arid
- southern Africa
- agropastoralism
- land use
- overgrazing
- Bush encroachment
- soil
- biodiversity
- vegetation dynamics
- indigenous encroaching species
- sustainability
- management
- plant production
- rangeland condition
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe structural and functional attributes of the herbaceous sward were contrasted under three land uses (commercial cattle farms, communal cattle lands and private game farms) and two catenal…Publication Date 1997
- Annual
- basal area
- cattle
- communal grazing
- density
- game
- palatability
- perennial
- tuft size
- landscape ecology
- commercial agriculture
- communal farming
- game farming
- soils
- climate
- land use
- management
- species richness
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper discusses land use patterns of hunter-gatherers inhabiting arid grasslands of later Pleistocene East Africa, inferred from an analysis of raw material economy in five Later Stone Age (LSA…Publication Date 1999
- palaeobotany
- land use
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe paper gives an overview on the trends in the usage of landscape metrics as indicators for: land use changes, habitat functions (biodiversity, habitats), landscape regulating functions (fire…Publication Date 2013
- land use
- biodiversity
- habitat
- fire ecology
- laqndscape metrics
- ecosystem services
- Library Collection RecordThe desertification tendency of the Qubqi Desert in China for 10 years was investigated using vegetation and soil change indices extracted from seven LANDSAT TM images. To identify the…Publication Date 2011
- desertification
- grasslands
- monitoring
- LANDSAT vegetation index
- land use
- Qubqi Desert
- China
- Library Collection RecordFirst page of Land, Food, and Biodiversity Agriculture currently occupies over 40% of Earth's land area and consumes 70% of available freshwater. Production systems have increased food output in…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity
- animal production
- plant production
- Economic Aspects
- ecology
- conservation
- land use
- management
- Library Collection RecordSeveral studies have demonstrated that seed mass is related to different environmental factors. However, they have taken no account of the joint effects of spatial and phylogenetic information. We…Publication Date 2013
- Elevational gradient
- Phylogenetic autocorrelation
- soil pH
- soil fertility
- spatial autocorrelation
- temperature
- seeds
- grasslands
- climate
- soils
- modelling
- land use
- southern Alps
- Library Collection RecordSpecies richness of plants generally decreases along elevational gradients or peaks at intermediate elevations. Land use including grazing by wild and domestic herbivores also affects plant…Publication Date 2013
- beta diversity
- buffering
- climate warming
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- herbivory
- homogenization
- land use
- species richness
- stability
- turnover
- globale warming
- grazing
- Norway
- Europe
- Library Collection Record1. Spatially explicit understanding of the delivery of multiple ecosystem services (ES) from global to local scales is currently limited. New studies analysing the simultaneous provision of multiple…Publication Date 2011
- of plant community diversity and structure
- ecosystem services
- functional trade-offs
- landscape modelling
- mountain grassland management
- plant functional traits
- management
- grassland
- modelling
- ecosystem services
- policy
- land use
- grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- plant functional traits
- Central French Alps
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordCarbon storage in vegetation and soil underpins climate regulation through carbon sequestration. Because plant species differ in their ability to capture, store and release carbon, the collective…Publication Date 2013
- ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- carbon sequestration
- carbon dioxide
- soils
- land use
- Chaco forest
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordDuring the last few decades, many regions have experienced major land use transformations, often driven by human activities. Assessing and evaluating these changes requires consistent data over time…Publication Date 2010
- Dryland observation
- scale
- Time series analysis
- NOAA AVHRR
- Landsat TM/ETM+
- remote sensing
- land use
- monitoring
- NOAA
- management
- Greece
- Library Collection RecordLand degradation in drylands is one of the major environmental issues of the 21st century particularly due to its impact on world food security and environmental quality. Climate change, shifts in…Publication Date 2010
- drylands
- Ecogeomorphology
- land degradation
- sediment transport
- Vegetation patterns
- degradation
- climate change
- soil erosion
- vegetation dynamics
- erosion
- land use
- management
- Library Collection RecordThe total area of abandoned and fallow agricultural fields in Japan has been increasing annually. The change in agricultural land use can alter belowground carbon (C) stocks associated with changes…Publication Date 2013
- agriculture
- land use
- soil carbon
- carbon sinks
- carbon sequestration
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding changes in biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in relation to land-use type and intensity is a major issue in current ecological research. In this context nutrient enrichment has…Publication Date 2011
- Biodiversity exploratories
- fertilization
- grazing
- land use
- mowing
- nitrogen
- nutrient limitation
- phosphorus
- productivity
- agriculture
- pastures
- grasslands
- plant production
- soil nutrients
- Europe