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- Library Collection RecordDegradation of soil as a consequence of land use poses a threat to sustainable agriculture in South Africa, resulting in the need for a soil protection strategy and policy. Development of such a…Publication Date 2011
- land use
- soils
- policy
- Organic Content
- grazing
- fire
- rangeland
- agriculture
- conservation
- no-till
- pasture
- soil nutrients
- organic carbon
- management
- restoration ecology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper is a first step towards a conservation plan for the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C) on the South African Central Lowveld, quantifying the historical land-cover trends (1993 2006…Publication Date 2010
- Central Lowveld
- conservation planning
- development
- land-use change
- conservation
- management
- land use
- rangeland
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- socio-economic aspects
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 1991
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- conservation
- South Africa
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordOver the past half-century, agricultural production gains have provided a platform for rural and urban economic growth worldwide. In African countries, however, agriculture has been widely assumed to…Publication Date 2011
- farming
- scaling-up
- Social capital
- sustainable intensification
- Sustainable development
- soil conservation
- soils
- sustainability
- conservation
- agriculture
- policies
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordBrowsing herbivores are generally highly selective feeders, selecting for new shoots and young plant material. Determinations of browser carrying capacity are then greatly inflated when based on…Publication Date 2014
- savanna
- browsing
- grazing
- game
- wildlife
- conservation
- carrying capacity
- climate
- soil
- rainfall
- modelling
- plant production
- management
- Zululand region
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordWith the rapid expansion of wildlife ranching and conservation in South African savannas and the resultant increase in multi-species grazing and browsing systems, information on browse production…Publication Date 2014
- savanna
- browsing
- grazing
- game
- wildlife
- conservation
- carrying capacity
- climate
- soil
- rainfall
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe paper agrees with three fundamental points raised by Vetter (in this issue), whilst highlighting an emerging trend in wildlife land use, which should be considered in policy making. Firstly, the…Publication Date 2013
- game animals
- policies
- communal rangelands
- subsistence agriculture
- biodiversity
- conservation
- Poverty
- livastock
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordInvasive species in Africa have important impacts on food security and biodiversity conservation. African floodplains in arid areas are critical wildlife habitats in addition to crop production and…Publication Date 2011
- dispersers
- habitat
- shifting cultivation
- wildlife
- Alien invasive species
- seeds
- seedlings
- livestock
- game
- conservation
- old lands
- ecosystem ecology
- Tana River
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Grassland biome is the most transformed biome in South Africa, with cultivation and other human impacts having the largest effect on pristine grasslands. Conversion of natural grassland to…Publication Date 2011
- conservation
- Gauteng
- grassland
- old lands
- rehabilitation
- species diversity
- reseeding
- restoration ecology
- Weeds
- plant production
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Anthropogenic natural habitat transformation presents the single most important threat to global biodiversity. Land cover data, based on Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery, were used to…Publication Date 2000
- biodiversity
- land use
- Landsat images
- conservation
- species richness
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe coastal grasslands in north-eastern South Africa are a severely threatened vegetation type rich in plant species, particularly forbs. Many of the forbs have underground storage organs which allow…Publication Date 2011
- C4 grassland
- forb
- persistence
- pine afforestation
- resprouters
- restoration
- conservation
- diversity
- species richness
- fire ecology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIncreasing evidence shows that anthropogenic climate change is affecting biodiversity. Reducing or stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions may slow global warming, but past emissions will continue to…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity hotspot
- climate change risk assessment
- Mediterranean type ecosystem
- species distribution modelling
- modelling
- climate change
- biodiversity
- greenhouse gases
- conservation
- rainfall
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Fire is a key ecological process in several biomes worldwide. Although many conservation agencies have the protection of biodiversity as at least one of their major goals, information on the…Publication Date 2003
- Conservation management
- experimental design
- Fynbos
- grassland
- savanna
- fire ecology
- conservation
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Aim Wildlife and pastoral peoples have lived side-by-side in the Mara ecosystem of south-western Kenya for at least 2000 years. Recent changes in human population and landuse are…Publication Date 2004
- Kenya
- Maasai Mara
- pastoralism
- rangelands
- bomas
- livestock
- wildlife
- land use
- conservation
- national parks
- tourism
- Economic Aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Woody plant increase in grassy biomes has been widely reported over the last century. Increases have been attributed to local drivers associated with land use change, such as heavy grazing…Publication Date 2010
- biome switch
- global drivers
- land use practices
- local drivers
- thicket expansion
- indigenous encroaching species
- grasslands
- grazing
- fire ecology
- carbon dioxide
- Aerial Photographs
- land use
- conservation
- commercial agriculture
- communal farming
- stocking rates
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study investigated the utilization of mist-belt grassland habitat by the threatened blue swallow and was conducted over three successive breeding seasons in the Blue Swallow Natural Heritage…Publication Date 2009
- conservation
- flight speed
- habitat management
- habitat requirements
- home-range
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Grazing is one of the key processes in terrestrial ecosystems and this can be provided by both indigenous and domestic ungulates. However, a question remains whether or not traditional forms…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- dung beetles
- grazing
- land use
- indicator species
- livestock
- insects
- management
- conservation
- Vaalbos National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary The Nyl River floodplain is one of southern Africa's conservation, eco-tourism and agricultural assets. Its location in a water-stressed region means that the biota of the Nyl River…Publication Date 1996
- floodplain ecosystem
- landscape ecology
- water resource
- conservation
- eco - tourism
- agriculture
- Economic Aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordQuestion The co-existence of woody plants and grasses characterize savannas, with the horizontal and vertical spatial arrangement of trees creating a heterogeneous biotic environment. To understand…Publication Date 2014
- Carnegie Airborne Observatory
- heterogeneity
- LiDAR
- Object-based image classification
- vegetation structure
- woody vegetation
- savanna
- remote sensing
- biodiversity
- conservation
- mapping
- management
- monitoring
- vegetation analysis
- Sabi Sand Wildtuin and Kruger National Park
- Mpumalanga province
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordSavannahs are widespread vegetation type in Sudanian zone of Africa. As protected areas are often assumed to be the best way to conserve biodiversity, we assessed the effectiveness of the Pendjari…Publication Date 2013
- conservation
- diversity
- savannah
- Structure
- Woody Species
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Protected areas such as national parks are often assumed to be the best way to conserve plant diversity and maintain ecosystem composition and structure. To evaluate this assertion, we…Publication Date 2011
- conservation
- management
- restoration ecology
- management
- grasslands
- data analysis
- biodiversity
- land use
- vegetation dynamics
- grazing
- species richness
- national parks
- Tunisia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: We used spatial and statistical analyses to identify and prioritize broad areas for conservation attention in the northern Zululand region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. We attempted to…Publication Date 2000
- conservation
- biodiversity
- ecosystem services
- endemic species
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract. South Africa has an important responsibility to global biodiversity conservation, but a largely inadequate conservation area network for addressing this responsibility. This study employs a…Publication Date 2001
- biodiversity
- conservation
- savanna
- grasslands
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTwenty-four grassland fragments were established in an area of high botanical diversity planted with Pinus patula plantations. This area is representative of the eastern Drakensberg escarpment,…Publication Date 1999
- afforestation
- biodiversity
- conservation
- grassland
- metapopulations
- Africa
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Species diversity and community structure indices (richness, diversity and evenness) are typically derived from contemporary biological survey atlases to identify conservation areas or to…Publication Date 2002
- biodiversity
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- modelling
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordCommunity Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) has been a pervasive paradigm in conservation circles for three decades. Despite many potentially attractive attributes it has been extensively…Publication Date 2010
- Natural resources management
- community-based
- models
- community-based natural resource management
- conservation
- South America
- Library Collection RecordSummarySouth Africa contains an extensive, well-managed protected area network which generates considerable economic benefits from tourism, but the extensive land and financial resources required by…Publication Date 1996
- eco - tourism
- socio-economic aspects
- rural areas
- Poverty
- conservation
- national parks
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpatial prioritizations and gap analyses are increasingly undertaken to allocate conservation resources. Most spatial prioritizations are conducted without specifying the conservation instruments to…Publication Date 2011
- Conservancy
- Community conservation
- Effectiveness
- Gauteng
- off-reserve conservation
- optimal instrument mix
- conservation
- management
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has developed and applied a landscape-scale conservation planning methodology in eight priority conservation landscapes in Africa, areas we call African…Publication Date 2009
- conservation
- biodiversity
- stakeholders
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Cape Province of South Africa has a long history of human occupation and utilisation; the impact of colonial settlement (late 17th century onwards) on agriculture has been especially…Publication Date 2003
- soil erosion
- soil conservation
- Land use policy
- Environmental history
- South Africa
- conservation
- land use
- agriculture
- degradation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper argues that, at present, ecotourism can contribute to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystem functions in developing countries, even though meeting the requirements for ecotourism is…Publication Date 1999
- biodiversity
- cost-benefit analysis
- Ecosystem functions
- eco-tourism
- Rainforests
- ecosystem dynamics
- ecosystem services
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe use a dynamic stochastic simulation model of forage, herbivores, predators and domestic livestock in the Machakos District of Kenya to address policies related to the multiple use of rangeland…Publication Date 1997
- policies
- grazing
- livestock
- land use
- rangelands
- Traditional management
- commercial agriculture
- conservation
- pastoralism
- Forage Quantity
- drought
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) was used to predict soil erosion hazard in the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro North basin of Kenya using data from erosion plots and reconnaissance surveys. The R-…Publication Date 2000
- soil erosion hazard assessment
- USLE
- GIS
- Kenya
- Upper Ewaso Ng'iro basin
- erosion
- rainfall
- conservation
- mapping
- hazard assessment
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFocusing on the issue of veldt degradation and grazing pressure on rangelands, a simplified model was constructed for a sustainable stocking rate (SR) evaluation of the complex system of semi-arid…Publication Date 1999
- stocking rates
- mixed grazing
- modelling
- Arid and sub-humid regions
- grazing
- degradation
- management
- decision support systems
- biodiversity
- traditional knowledge
- ecosystem ecology
- conservation
- foraging ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGiven current population trends and projections in sub-Saharan Africa, it is anticipated that substantial intensification of agricultural cropland is certain within the next decades. In the absence…Publication Date 2002
- climate
- conservation
- Livelihoods
- socio-economic aspects
- ecology
- biodiversity
- legislation
- Communal areas
- subsistence agriculture
- sustainble development
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe role of herbivores in controlling plant species richness is a critical issue in the conservation and management of grassland biodiversity. Numerous field experiments in grassland plant…Publication Date 1998
- herbivores
- grassland
- diversity
- species richness
- environmental gradients
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- conservation
- management
- livestock
- soil fertility
- rainfall
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe South African Country Study on Climate Change was hosted by the South African National Research Foundation in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, on 22 August 2000.Publication Date 2001
- climate change
- production
- conservation
- vulnerability
- adaptation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2000
- Mkomazi
- Game Reserve
- ecology
- conservation
- biodiversity
- savanna
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand-use practices can impact on bird populations. This study set out to explain why the helmeted guineafowl, Numida meleagris (Linnaeus 1766; Aves: Numididae) declined in the Midlands of KwaZulu-…Publication Date 1999
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Land-use patterns
- Pesticides
- Maize agriculture
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Edge distance
- birds
- conservation
- biodiversity
- savanna
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn experiment designed to study the effects of habitat fragmentation on biological diversity in the montane grasslands of Southern Africa was launched in September 1994. The Groenvaly experiment is…Publication Date 1998
- grasslands
- Fragmentation experiment
- Pinus elliotti
- Groenvaly
- biodiversity
- vegetation dynamics
- invasive plants
- monitoring
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEnvironmental weeds are an escalating problem worldwide. Integrated control is unable to keep up with the demands for management strategies for existing and new, potentially invasive plant species.…Publication Date 1998
- Environmental weeds
- management
- Priority areas
- surveys
- integrated control
- rehabilitation
- Weeds
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTransformation of natural vegetation to other land-uses, such as crop cultivation and urban development, presents the most important threat to biodiversity. Plant and animal species distribution data…Publication Date 2003
- Land transformation
- Biodiversity risk
- arable land
- conservation
- species richness
- biodiversity
- land reform
- land use
- policies
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSoil degradation due to tillage has been reported Africa-wide. Other main causes of soil degradation are overgrazing, extensive cultivation of marginal lands, widespread clearing of vegetation for…Publication Date 2002
- Reduced tillage
- organic carbon
- soil structure
- soil quality
- sustainability
- no-till
- conservation
- Africa
- Soil Condition
- soil fertility
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordInformation from the literature about forage conservation losses in the field has been reviewed, contrasted and analysed in the categories respiratory loss, leaching loss and mechanical loss. An…Publication Date 1989
- forage quality
- conservation
- agriculture
- modelling
- temperature
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the melding of two discourses in southeastern Zimbabwe: land reform and wildlife management. The former seeks to redistribute large, [`]under-utilized' landholdings to…Publication Date 2004
- Zimbabwe
- wildlife management
- land reform
- Campfire
- political ecology
- Lowveld
- Community based natural resource management
- management
- conservation
- land use
- socio-economic aspects
- politics
- wildlife
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWhere species distribution data are inadequate reserve selection procedures have to rely on surrogate measures of biodiversity. The informativeness of land facets (the simplest units of a landscape…Publication Date 1999
- biodiversity
- Surrogates
- Land facets
- Reserve selection
- Priority conservation areas
- conservation
- species richness
- land use
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDifferences in reporting rates of birds on atlas checklists from major land-use categories (protected, unprotected, wildlife management area (WMA)) in Botswana were investigated to evaluate the…Publication Date 1998
- Botswana
- Bird conservation
- land use
- overgrazing
- Atlas-data
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe grass Agrostis stolonifera L. is the most successful introduced vascular plant at sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Since its accidental introduction, probably in the 1950s, it has spread over the…Publication Date 1998
- Sub-Antarctic
- introduced plants
- Soil fauna
- species richness
- conservation
- Alien invasive species
- biodiversity
- ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNomadic larks in the semi-arid Nama-Karoo, South Africa, depend on patches of temporally suitable habitat for breeding. These patches occur where rain has recently fallen, where there has been growth…Publication Date 1998
- semi-arid
- Nomadic birds
- modelling
- Patchy environment
- Stochastic environment
- Protected area design
- biodiversity
- birds
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe spatial characteristics of African protected areas classified as national parks (category II) by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) were quantified on a regional basis. Four groups of spatial…Publication Date 1998
- area
- shape
- isolation
- interaction
- national parks and Africa
- conservation
- national parks
- Africa
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