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- Library Collection RecordElandskloof was the first land restitution case in post-apartheid South Africa in which the government returned land to a community. The communal property association became dysfunctional, and the…Publication Date 2011
- Communal land systems
- Common property regimes
- Land restitution
- Post-apartheid land reform
- legislation
- subsitence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- non-grazing resources
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordCentral governments have neither the capacity nor the local knowledge to implement a just, large-scale national land registration system. Support to local institutions to undertake intermediate forms…Publication Date 2009
- land
- Property
- institutions
- investment
- management
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- pastoralism
- land reform
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper explores Swaziland's National Action Programme (NAP) to combat desertification; the country's main strategy for implementing the United Nations Convention to Combat…Publication Date 2009
- land degradation
- policy
- Poverty
- Orthodoxy
- Myth
- desertification
- policies
- management
- degradation
- land use
- Africa
- Swaziland
- Library Collection RecordSummary The scientific and management perception of artificial surface-water provision has swung like a pendulum from being to the benefit of herbivores, to being to the detriment of many vegetation…Publication Date 2009
- Artificial water provision
- Surface-water management policies
- management
- GIS
- national parks
- monitoring
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- decision support systems
- Kruger National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper explores the physical and imaginative construction of the Zimbabwean [`]lowveld' landscape. A powerful legacy of the colonial encounter with Zimbabwe was the notion that the lowveld…Publication Date 2005
- Zimbabwe
- wildlife
- wilderness
- conservation
- land reform
- landscape
- political ecology
- management
- national parks
- politics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIt is well recognised that local ecological knowledge is an important facet of natural resource management in rural regions of the developing world. However, techniques to assess levels and to…Publication Date 2010
- experts
- local ecological knowledge
- savanna
- Scoring
- traditional knowledge
- management
- Indigenous knowledge
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, we asked the Ariaal herders of northern Kenya to answer 'why, what and how' they classified landscape, and assessed and monitored the biodiversity of 10 km2 of grazing land.…Publication Date 2009
- Anthropogenic indicators
- Ariaal
- biodiversity
- Indigenous knowledge
- Grazing suitability
- landscape classification
- Landscape potential
- traditional knowledge
- pastoralism
- monitoring
- grazing
- grasslands
- land use
- Soil Condition
- livestock
- conservation
- management
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouth Africa's moist grassland harbours globally significant biodiversity, supplies essential ecosystem services, supports crop and livestock agriculture, forestry and settlement, yet is poorly…Publication Date 2009
- agriculture
- animals
- biodiversity
- birds
- climate
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- crops
- Agricultural/growth & development
- ecosystem
- environment
- forestry
- insects
- mammals
- Poaceae
- Soil/analysis
- grasslands
- land use
- conservation
- management
- landscape ecology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAnthropogenic fires in Africa are an ancient form of environmental disturbance, which probably have shaped the savanna vegetation more than any other human induced disturbance. Despite anthropogenic…Publication Date 2005
- Anthropogenic fires
- Bush encroachment
- Indigenous knowledge of herders
- fire history
- Namibia
- savanna
- Scale dependence
- species richness
- vegetation trends
- fire ecology
- disturbance
- management
- vegetation dynamics
- landscape ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impacts of fire and grazing management on grass nutritional quality in semi-arid savannas may depend on inherent variation in rainfall and soil nutrient status. We examined the effects of grazing…Publication Date 2010
- crude protein
- Grass nutritional quality
- phosphorus
- rainfall
- grazing
- fire ecology
- soil nutrients
- management
- savanna
- forage quality
- plant production
- Northern Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAfrican savannas are primarily used as pastures and are subject to changes in climate and management strategies. For sustainable management of these landscapes ecological knowledge on seasonal and…Publication Date 2010
- beta diversity
- Distance decay
- Precipitation gradient
- species richness
- Systematic sampling
- Tree islands
- biodiversity
- savanna
- pasture management
- climate
- management
- sustainability
- rainfall
- monitoring
- conservation
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe issue of sustainability and productivity of open communal rangelands compared to fenced rangelands is often subject to controversy. This study investigated differences in soil and grass layer…Publication Date 2010
- game
- livestock
- Lowveld
- overgrazing
- stocking rates
- grazing
- sustainability
- management
- Soil Condition
- commercial agriculture
- communal farming
- rangelands
- vegetation dynamics
- plant production
- soil fertility
- Swaziland
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes a manual-style Decision Support System that integrates land degradation indicators with adaptive management options and is designed for land managers to easily collect data and…Publication Date 2010
- innovations
- land degradation
- Manual
- monitoring
- participation
- rangelands
- degradation
- decision support systems
- management
- sustainability
- subsistence agriculture
- pastoralism
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNatural resource management may change local and regional ecosystems, especially in drought-prone environments. Livestock are commonly kept as a source of capital in agriculturally dominated…Publication Date 2009
- desertification
- erosion
- Holistic management
- riparian grazing
- management
- degradation
- communal farming
- ecosystem dynamics
- livestock
- watering points
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe examined the relationship between the distribution of Martial Eagles Polemaetus bellicosus (and other large eagle species) breeding on electricity transmission pylons in the central and…Publication Date 2005
- Large eagles
- land management
- habitat quality
- conservation
- South Africa
- birds
- management
- rangeland condition
- landscape ecology
- ecosytem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSavanna water management is predicated on the hypothesis that surface water availability can be manipulated at scales that influence herbivore distributions. Using a case study in the Kruger National…Publication Date 2005
- water management
- wildlife management
- Semi-arid savannas
- Artificial water sources
- Water source heterogeneity
- rainfall
- Kruger National Park
- savanna
- national parks
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reviews the predictions and management implications of two current paradigms in the ecology and management of arid and semi-arid rangelands. The equilibrium model stresses the importance…Publication Date 2005
- range condition
- overgrazing
- key resources
- rainfall variability
- heterogeneity
- Scale dependence
- Mobility
- management
- ecology
- rangelands
- modelling
- rangeland condition
- rainfall
- livestock
- stocking rates
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLocal communities use an indigenous classification of environmental land units for natural resource management in central north Namibia. These indigenous land units (ILUs) were compared with a…Publication Date 2005
- Indigenous environmental knowledge
- vegetation
- ordination
- land classification
- Resource Use
- grazing
- Indigenous knowledge
- community based resource management
- management
- ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIt is known that, depending on the degree of degradation, the vegetation recovery of severely degraded areas by means of natural succession processes is very slow, if not impossible, and that active…Publication Date 2005
- degradation
- Restoration technologies
- Over-sowing
- Rip-plough cultivation
- Karoo
- monitoring
- restoration ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- management
- germination
- seeds
- seed banks
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe study was conducted in a semi-arid savanna of South Africa, dominated by an almost pure stand of Acacia mellifera subsp. detinens (Black Thorn). Due to its invasive habits and suppression of the…Publication Date 2005
- Bush encroachment
- Canopied subhabitat
- soil nutrients
- Uncanopied subhabitat
- savanna
- management
- indigenous encroaching species
- plant production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn evolutionary time frames, grazing by domesticated livestock on the short grass plains of East Africa is a new occurrence resulting in increased animal densities year around and modification to…Publication Date 2005
- evolutionary history of grazing
- Modified-Whittaker plots
- Serengeti ecosystem
- East Africa
- seasonal grazing
- rangelands
- savanna
- grazing
- biodiversity
- vegetation dynamics
- management
- livestock
- animal impact
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLike other African countries, Madagascar is concerned by vegetation cover degradation especially in savanna ecosystems. In this article, we describe an approach to quantify and localise savanna…Publication Date 2010
- MODIS
- Time series
- STL
- change
- trend
- savanna
- Phenological indicator
- degradation
- remote sensing
- NDVI values
- management
- fire
- Madagascar
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSustainable natural resource management requires inputs from both the natural and the social sciences. Since natural and social systems are inter-related and inter-dependent, it is essential that…Publication Date 2010
- Water allocation decision making
- Geographical information systems
- Meta-modelling
- Data integration
- spatial analysis
- river basins
- Inkomati Water Management Area
- GIS
- management
- socio-economic aspects
- irrigation
- Mpumalanga province
- South Africa
- Swaziland
- Mozambique
- 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 RecordThe communal areas of the semi-arid (200 mm) winter-rainfall Namaqualand region of South Africa are heavily utilised by a large number of subsistence farmers who keep sheep and goats. For several…Publication Date 2005
- Semi-arid rangeland
- Vegetation Change
- Goat production
- desertification
- sheep
- goats
- stocking rates
- management
- pastoralism
- subsistence agriculture
- plant production
- plant community ecology
- animal production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA model of a plant community that is biologically reasonable and easily adaptable to economic models is presented. The model includes optimization, competition, stochastic limiting resources, and…Publication Date 2005
- plant competition
- redundancy
- invasive species
- Individual optimization
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- rangelands
- modelling
- indigenous encroaching species
- Alien invasive species
- Phytosociology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn previous papers we have considered the optimal mix of biodiversity in semi-arid rangelands, focusing on the steady state. This paper addresses the question of conservation in the optimal use of…Publication Date 2004
- rangelands
- biodiversity
- Managed
- Natural
- conservation
- management
- fire ecology
- grazing
- livestock
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDevelopment of biological control agents for weeds has been motivated by the need to reduce the abundance and distribution of a pest plant where chemical and mechanical control were not cost…Publication Date 2005
- Direct effects
- invasive plants
- Nontarget impacts
- Target plants
- vegetation management
- Post-release assessments
- biological control
- Weeds
- management
- restoration ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge of the success or otherwise of conservation interventions is often locked within localised networks, resulting in mistakes being replicated unnecessarily. The savannahs of eastern and…Publication Date 2013
- conservation
- Evidence based conservation
- Management interventions
- national parks
- protected areas
- savanna
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Knersvlakte in the Succulent Karoo Biome (South Africa) is known for its high plant diversity and endemism. In the course of establishing a conservation area there, we assessed baseline data for…Publication Date 2010
- Aizoaceae
- biodiversity
- herbivory
- Namaqualand
- rangeland management
- Systematic conservation planning
- conservation
- management
- grazing
- sheep
- goats
- 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 RecordThe relative importance of fire and herbivory on vegetation structure has been the subject of much debate in savanna ecology. Fire regime and herbivore numbers are two key variables that managers of…Publication Date 2009
- Carnegie Airborne Observatory
- conservation
- heterogeneity
- LiDAR
- management
- Thresholds of potential concern
- fire
- animal impact
- remote sensing
- national parks
- Kruger National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany existing parks are currently experiencing difficulties in achieving their conservation aims, yet they remain an important option for maintaining and enhancing the conservation of biological…Publication Date 2009
- Effectiveness evaluation
- Criteria and indicators
- Parks management
- Conservation Policy
- national parks
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- conservation
- biodiversity
- ecosystem services
- sustainability
- monitoring
- South Africa
- Canada
- 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 RecordCompetition and compatibility between livestock and wildlife in Africa has been a point of considerable speculation, with implications for conservation. However, controlled replicated experiments are…Publication Date 2005
- livestock
- Africa
- Dung counts
- Trait-mediated effects
- indirect effects
- conservation
- game farming
- wildlife
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMuch effort in systematic conservation planning has gone into devising measures and algorithms which are efficient at capturing the biological importance of different candidate areas. While cost is…Publication Date 2004
- Priority setting
- Reserve design
- costs
- Complementarity
- optimisation
- Area selection
- ecoregions
- Vertebrates
- Economic Aspects
- conservation
- management
- 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 RecordSouth African grasslands support a rich flora that is attracting growing conservation interest. Fire has long been used to manage grasslands for livestock production. However, there is very little…Publication Date 2004
- Alpha-diversity
- Beta-diversity
- Long-term ecological research
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- conservation
- management
- species richness
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary Seed dispersal via ingestion and defecation by large herbivores provides a possible aid for ecological restoration of plant communities, by connecting source communities of target species…Publication Date 2005
- seed dispersal
- grazing
- Heathland
- grassland
- conservation
- Indicator Values
- seeds
- restoration ecology
- Weeds
- management
- monitoring
- soil fertility
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe assessed whether prior foraging by wild herbivores affected foraging behaviour of cattle in Laikipia rangeland, Kenya, during February 2001, August 2001 and February 2002. The study compared…Publication Date 2009
- competition
- bite rate
- foraging behaviour
- livestock
- private land
- Step rate
- wildlife
- foraging ecology
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn sub-Saharan Africa problems associated with water scarcity are aggravated by increasing demands for food and water, climate change and environmental degradation. Livestock keeping, an important…Publication Date 2010
- livestock feed
- water management
- animal husbandry
- environment
- Livelihoods
- Gender
- water use efficiency
- drought
- animal production
- subsistence agriculture
- pastoralism
- management
- irrigation
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn communal areas of NE Zimbabwe, feed resources are collectively managed, with herds grazing on grasslands during the rainy season and mainly on crop residues during the dry season, which creates…Publication Date 2011
- Crop-livestock interactions
- Dynamic modelling
- cattle
- crop residues
- grasslands
- livestock
- foraging ecology
- soil organic carbon
- soil fertility
- management
- communal farming
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn investigation into the spread of two alien wattle species (Acacia mearnsii and Acacia dealbata) in rural parts of the Drakensberg region of South Africa and the importance of the trees to the…Publication Date 2005
- Acacia
- Green manure
- land management
- trees
- encroachment
- invasive plants
- socio-economic aspects
- medicinal plants
- management
- Poverty
- upliftment projects
- sustainability
- landscape ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordBiological productivity of grazing livestock under semi-arid conditions in northern Kenya is limited by marked seasonal fluctuations in the availability and quality of rangeland resources. With the…Publication Date 2004
- Seasonal breeding
- goats
- productivity
- Pastoral systems
- Northern Kenya
- plant production
- animal production
- agriculture
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGrasslands in South Africa have been extensively transformed and fragmented, but are poorly protected. Commercial afforestation poses a particular threat to grassland biodiversity because areas…Publication Date 2010
- Ecological network
- connectivity
- fragmentation
- agroforestry
- Grassland bird conservation
- grasslands
- conservation
- birds
- fire
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding changes in hydrological characteristics of rangeland ecosystems with degradation is essential when making rangeland management decisions in arid and semi-arid areas to ensure…Publication Date 2009
- Aboveground phytomass
- rangeland condition
- root distribution
- root mass
- water-use efficiency
- water use efficiency
- degradation
- hydrology
- management
- animal production
- plant production
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe establishment of enclosures has become an important measure to combat land degradation in many of the world's semi-arid rangelands. In view of the increased pressure exerted by this land…Publication Date 2009
- enclosures
- Semi-arid rangeland
- vegetation structure
- soil quality
- rehabilitation
- degradation
- management
- soil
- commercial agriculture
- communal farming
- plant production
- Soil Condition
- biomass
- Kenya
- 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
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