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- Library Collection RecordAlso available on CD-ROM. Accompanying map and table in pocket at back of book. (copy one) Accomapnying map and table available on level 3 (copy two) Summary in English and Afrikaans. Vegetation…Publication Date 2007
- ecology
- grasslands
- mapping
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Grassland biome of South Africa has been identified as critically endangered and the biome in South Africa most requiring conservation attention through the implementation of efficient,…Publication Date 2007
- grassland ecology
- South Africa
- grassland
- conservation
- natural resources
- grassland biome
- biodiversity
- degradation
- soil erosion
- Alien invasive species
- indigenous encroaching species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of livestock type (cattle-to-sheep ratio) and stocking rate on grassland species richness and vegetation composition were tested using two long-term trials in Highland Sourveld Grassland…Publication Date 2007
- grasslands
- grazing
- South Africa
- KwaZulu - Natal
- plant diversity
- grazing
- environmental aspects
- livestock
- cattle
- sheep
- stocking rates
- grassland
- species richness
- fire
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouth African dairy farmers have generally used kikuyu pasture to tide them over from one ryegrass season to the next, and as a result of its resilient nature, have assumed careful management of it…Publication Date 2007
- management
- pastures
- dairy farming
- Economic Aspects
- nutrients
- animal production
- grazing
- fire
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGrazing lands in Eritrea are degraded due to decades of overstocking and consequent overgrazing. Since the rangelands are accessible to entire village communities, organisation and coordinated…Publication Date 2007
- rangelands
- degradation
- communal farming
- subsistence agriculture
- livestock
- management
- grazing
- Commercial farming
- cattle
- household income studies
- forage
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordFood and Agriculture Statistics Global Outlook. Includes facts figures, graphs and charts.Publication Date 2006
- global
- international
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of fire and mechanical clearing were investigated for their potential in assisting with the eradication of Chromolaena odorata (previously Eupatorium odoratum). The study was divided into…Publication Date 2006
- Alien invasive species
- fire
- management
- restoration ecology
- drought
- savanna
- grassland
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: The KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South Africa, is predominantly a grassland ecosystem maintained by fire. The effect of the current burning regime on invertebrate and flowering forb diversity…Publication Date 2006
- fire ecology
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- species richness
- invertebrates
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Ngorongoro Crater is a volcanic caldera located within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. The Crater comprises a flat grassland plain surrounded by steep, bushy walls. It contains…Publication Date 2006
- grasslands
- conservation
- cattle
- fire ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- monitoring
- vegetation dynamics
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and Afrikaans. Also issue on CD-ROMPublication Date 2006
- rangeland management
- pasture management
- Economic Aspects
- vegetation dynamics
- pastoralism
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study investigated rural livelihoods in two contrasting environments in the upper and lower reaches of the Gariep River: Sehlabathebe in the Lesotho highlands, and the Richtersveld in the…Publication Date 2006
- Rural development
- Lesotho
- Poor
- agriculture
- sustainability
- household income studies
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and Afrikaans. Also issued on CD-ROM.Publication Date 2006
- savanna
- ecology
- restoration ecology
- Alien invasive species
- management
- South Africa
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordWildfire prediction and management is an issue of safety and security for many rural communities in South Africa. Wildfire prediction and early warning systems can assist in saving lives,…Publication Date 2006
- vegetation mapping
- South Africa
- remote sensing
- fire ecology
- Mpumalanga
- Savanna ecology
- ground cover fires
- grassland fires
- grassland
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe 2005 Nevada Rangeland Vegetation Survey was conducted as a collaborative effort between the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Department of Resource Economics and the University of Nevada…Publication Date 2005
- Nevada
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2005
- cattle
- nutrition
- animal production
- forage quality
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract available.Publication Date 2005
- Endemic plants
- phytogeography
- alien plants
- alien invasive plants
- Floristics
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Recorddewey class number: 633.2009684 Full text also available online. Scroll down for electronic link.Publication Date 2005
- rangeland management
- Kwa Zulu Natal
- Okhombe ward
- Agricultural systems
- grazing
- Commons
- natural resources
- communal management
- citizen participation
- grassland ecology
- Fodder trees
- Ukulinga Research Farm
- feed composition
- nutritional value
- Cropping Systems
- subsistence agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe overall aim of the study was to investigate re-vegetation of disturbed sites, using nursery grown plugs (from seedling trays) of Themeda triandra, Heteropogon contortus and Hyparrhenia dregeana…Publication Date 2005
- restoration ecology
- revegetation
- grasslands
- herbicides
- Alien invasive species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe replacement of indigenous grasslands by commercial forestry plantations on the mountainous eastern escarpment of South Africa, has inevitably led to alteration of nutrient cycling. The overall…Publication Date 2005
- soil nutrients
- soil ecology
- plants nutrition
- soil nutrition
- landscape ecology
- Pinus patula
- South Africa
- Eucalyptus grandis
- trees
- growth
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordWestern NSW, like the rest of the Australian pastoral zone, has experienced well documented land degradation associated with droughts (1879 -1902, 1943 -1945, 1960 -1964 and 1982) (McKeon et al., …Publication Date 2004
- wool production
- sheep
- drought
- land degradation
- rainfall
- climate data
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIt is generally accepted that healthy rangeland landscapes are those that function to conserve resourcesby retaining water, soil and nutrients. How well landscapes retain, not `leak', water and…Publication Date 2004
- resources
- conservation
- Library Collection Record Throughout eastern Africa the economic base of tribal societies has gone through rapid change, with concomitant declines in common pool resources and emergence of new tenure systems (public and…Publication Date 2004
- Library Collection RecordThe following dissertation sets out to investigate the decline of agriculture in Mission location at Butterworth, Transkei, using the Rehabilitation Scheme as a benchmark. The scheme was introduced…Publication Date 2003
- agriculture
- South Africa
- Transkei
- land use
- land tenure
- soil erosion
- politics
- policies
- communal farming
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2003
- rangelands
- rangeland management
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored an International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas, May…Publication Date 2002
- Library Collection RecordThe System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored an International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas, May…Publication Date 2002
- Africa
- North Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- West Asia
- Library Collection RecordThe System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored an International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas, May…Publication Date 2002
- Africa
- North Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- West Asia
- Library Collection RecordLantana camara (lantana), a thicket-forming shrub, a number of different varieties of which were introduced into South Africa as ornamental plants but which has become a serious invasive weed.…Publication Date 2002
- Biological pest control
- South Africa
- Lantana camara
- Beetles
- Hemiptera
- Weeds
- Alien invasive species
- biological control
- modelling
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordArid shrub-lands in Syria and elsewhere in West Asia and North Africa are widely thought degraded. Characteristic of these areas is a preponderance of unpalatable shrubs or a lack of overall ground…Publication Date 2001
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2001
- plant autecology
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Mceula Commonage Land in the Hewu district lies due northwest of Whittle sea and west of Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. This thesis has two main objectives. Firstly, to survey and analyse the…Publication Date 2000
- natural resources
- management
- Eastern Cape
- subsistence agriculture
- Economic Aspects
- medicinal plants
- soil
- socio-economic aspects
- sustainability
- land use
- degradation
- participatory rural appraisal
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA comparison of soil degradation between communal grazing and controlled grazing was undertaken in the Victoria-East district of the Eastern Cape. The study was undertaken in the communal rangeland…Publication Date 2000
- soil
- degradation
- rangelands
- management
- communal grazing
- subsistence agriculture
- grazing
- commercial agriculture
- erosion
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract The Addo Elephant National Park (AENP) is the only existing national park situated in succulent thicket. This unique veld type is endemic to the Eastern Cape, and forms an important centre…Publication Date 1998
- Addo Elephant National Park
- flora
- Elephants
- Nature reserves
- management
- biodiversity
- degradation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA history ofland degradation is reconstructed in a part of the dividing ridge between the Great Fish and Keiskamma rivers, in Peddie District, former Ciskei. The study entails a comparative…Publication Date 1997
- land use
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- erosion
- degradation
- Tenure
- land use
- Subsistence farming
- Commercial farming
- Traditional management
- betterment villages
- Aerial Photographs
- GIS
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP) is an interagency effort that includes the development and application of successional modeling. Two of the primarymodels used in…Publication Date 1996
- Interior Columbia Basin
- Northern Great Basin
- Library Collection RecordDiscusses the nature, significance, function and values of riparian areas.Publication Date 1996
- riparian zones
- management techniques
- Nebraska
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1992
- global
- international
- Library Collection RecordA brochure from the Society for Range Management about a career in range management and the opportunities that it affords. Contains a list of schools that have programs or courses in range management.
- United States
- Library Collection RecordA poster
- Senegal
- Library Collection RecordA recent MLA study showed a return on investment of over 50% from the application of remote telemetry in western Queensland. This poster will illustrate and suggest the economic development…
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: Prescribed burning is a rangeland management technology used world-wide for a variety of management objectives. The Flint Hills region of Kansas and Oklahoma represent the largest…
- prescribed burning
- Australia
- smoke management
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available
- Library Collection RecordLand - in rangeland - is used in the holistic way (FAO, 1976; Zonneveld, 1972) and therefore includes vegetation, soil, rock and water. This paper will deal with vegetation mainly, since vegetation…
- Library Collection RecordRangelands span a variety of ecosystems including grasslands, savannas, sagebrush steppe, shrublands, tundra, mountain meadows and deserts. The variety of life and its processes on them (biodiversity…
- Library Collection RecordAn article looking at rangelands and climate change with respect to mitigation, adaptation, and co-benefits.
- Library Collection RecordRuminant animals are one of the man'es most valuable and renewable resources. As protein is one of the most limiting in human alimentation, the ruminants are indispensable utilizing marginal…
- Library Collection RecordThis paper discusses developments in our understanding about rangeland ecology and rangeland dynamics in the last 20 years. Before the late 1980’s, the mainstream view in range ecology was that…
- Library Collection RecordEffective inventory, monitoring and assessment requires planning that identifies why monitoring is to be undertaken, what will be monitored, where monitoring will occur, who will monitor, how long…
- Library Collection RecordThe interactions among climate, ecosystems, and the welfare of human societies are becoming increasingly salient issues in research, development, and policy worldwide.  One component of our…
- Africa
- Kenya
- Laikipia Maasai Pastoralist Areas
- Library Collection RecordRiparian habitats historically constituted 1% of the land mass in western North America. Within the past 100 years, an estimated 95% of this habitat has been altered, degraded or destroyed due to a…
- Western United States