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- Library Collection RecordManaging annual grass infestations can be difficult and very expensive. It’s a regular occurrence that that an expensive treatment is applied and no reduction in annual grass invasion occurs. Using…Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordThere is a growing consensus that climate change is transforming the context for rural development, changing physical and socio-economic landscapes and making smallholder development more expensive.…Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordThe widespread provision of water points in protected areas in semi-arid savannas has supported associated increases in cumulative grazing pressure. This study addresses the management implications…Publication Date 2011
- water
- piosphere
- management
- savanna
- grazing
- nature reserve
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe rangeland literature synthesis provides an unprecedented source of evidence-based information to guide the development and assessment of management practices and conservation programs on the…Publication Date 2011
- Library Collection RecordThe Wambiana trial was established in December 1997 near Charters Towers to objectively test how a range of grazing strategies cope with climate variability. To ensure relevance to the grazing…Publication Date 2011
- Queensland
- Field Trials
- pasture management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPanter, K.E., M.H. Ralphs, J.A. Pfister, D.R. Gardner, B.L. Stegelmeier, S.T. Lee, K.D. Welch, B.T. Green, T.Z. Davis, and D. Cook. 2011. Plants Poisonous to Livestock in the Western States. U.S.…Publication Date 2011
- abortion
- Bitterweed
- Bracken Fern
- arrowgrass
- Chokecherry
- copperweed
- death camas
- Emaciation
- false hellebore
- greasewood
- groundsel
- Halogeton
- hemp dogbane
- horse-brush
- Library Collection RecordThe Savanna biome covers around 60% of sub-Saharan Africa. The goods and services it provides are utilised and often depended upon by rural communities, commercial farmers and managers of…Publication Date 2011
- remote sensing
- Savanna ecology
- biomass
- spatial ecology
- spatial analysis
- plant biomass
- remote sensing
- fire ecology
- management
- MODIS
- Nature reserves
- savanna
- mapping
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordANR Publication 8398. Horses, goats, sheep, and cattle can sicken or die if they eat from a poisonous plant. The best strategy is just to keep these plants out of reach. Here are photos, ID info, and…Publication Date 2011
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding Livestock Grazing ImpactsPublication Date 2011
- Grazing Ecology and Management
- monitoring and assessment
- rangeland ecology
- Library Collection Record"This report provides managers with the current state of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of fuel treatments for mitigating severe wildfire effects. A literature review examines the…Publication Date 2011
- Central Idaho
- Library Collection RecordThe research and development (R&D) arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, works at the forefront of science to improve the health and use of our Nation’s forests and…Publication Date 2011
- United States
- Library Collection RecordBoreholes in the Kruger National Park (KNP) was at first developed to increase the number of animals that were at low densities because of poaching, diseases, fencing and low permanent water…Publication Date 2011
- national park
- water
- management
- piospheres
- soil moisture
- boreholes
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe data for this report was collected at the end of calendar year 2009.  It provides a snapshot look at the 2009 grazing season. Data records that were acquired for this report represent the best…Publication Date 2011
- United States
- Library Collection RecordGlobally, ecosystems provide services of almost twice the value of global gross national product (Costanza et al., 2006). The Buffalo City Municipality (BCM), South Africa contains biodiversity of…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity conservation
- South Africa
- Buffalo City
- ecosystem services
- biodiversity
- conservation
- mapping
- degradation
- GIS
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordCities must go further and further away to find new, more costly sources of water for human consumption while industries and agriculture continue to compete for increasingly scarce water resources.…Publication Date 2011
- Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve
- water resources
- environmental economics
- ecosystem services
- nature reserve
- water
- Economic Aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe 28-month study assessed the impacts of five syntopic medium-sized mammalian browsers and one fire event in a woodland savanna in the Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe. Aspects of herbivory, mechanical…Publication Date 2011
- antelopes
- Zimbabwe
- Duikers
- Bushbuck
- kudu
- seed dispersal
- grazing
- ecosystem ecology
- fire ecology
- savanna
- nutrients
- game plant production
- germination
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordOver the past few years, agribusiness, investment funds and government agencies have been acquiring long-term rights over large areas of land in Africa. Together with applicable national and…Publication Date 2011
- policies
- land use
- Economic Aspects
- politics
- International Institute for Environment and Development policy
- research
- climate
- ecology
- urban
- economics
- sustainability
- legislation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- Library Collection RecordAffirming the substantial national conservation and ecosystem benefits associated with farmlands, ranchlands, and forests, every Farm Bill since 1985 has included a section dedicated to…Publication Date 2011
- Library Collection RecordOn March 1, 2011, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy hosted its tenth annual Conservation Leadership Dialogue, focused this year on The Future of Large Landscape Conservation in America. With…Publication Date 2011
- Library Collection RecordIUCN has recently engaged in a worldwide dryland management strategy and has started in 2010 the implementation of a “Securing Rights and Restoring Drylands for Improved Livelihoods Programmeâ€.…Publication Date 2011
- Library Collection RecordTechnical Reference 1737-23 (Revised). Multiple Indicator Monitoring (MIM) of Stream Channels and Streamside Vegetation was developed to provide information necessary for managers, landowners, and…Publication Date 2011
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this guidebook is to help you, the rancher and/or land manager, use business planning and ecological monitoring to ensure your ranch or land is managed in a sustainable manner.Publication Date 2011
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this guidebook is to help you, the rancher and/or land manager, use business planning and ecological monitoring to ensure your ranch or land is managed in a sustainable manner.Publication Date 2011
- Library Collection RecordMRD is pleased to announce the publication of a Supplement Issue containing keynote papers, a synthesis paper, and policy papers that emerged from the 2010"Global Change and the World's…Publication Date 2010
- economics
- climate change
- ecosystem services
- hydrology
- policies
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Research and Development (R&D) Invasive Species Strategic Program Area (SPA) provides the scientific information, methods, and technology application services needed by regulators,…Publication Date 2010
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis publication is intended to encourage and guide the consideration of rangelands natural resource management issues in national strategies and other relevant work by the NRMMC. It outlines key…Publication Date 2010
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (SDCP) is a locally developed, long-term vision for protecting the natural and cultural heritage of Pima County . The Plan seeks to combine short-term actions to…Publication Date 2010
- Arizona
- Pima County
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 2010
- United States
- Library Collection RecordDescription not available.Publication Date 2010
- climate variability
- economics
- Library Collection RecordThe Black Hills National Forest proposes to reauthorize domestic livestock grazing on six allotments on the Hell Canyon Ranger District in Custer County, SD. The allotments include Bull Flats,…Publication Date 2010
- Hell Canyon Range
- Library Collection RecordClimate change and a growing demand for freshwater resources due to population increases and socio-economic changes will make water a limiting factor (in terms of both quantity and quality) in…Publication Date 2010
- water supply
- southern Africa
- hydrology
- mathematical models
- hydrologic models
- Rain and rainfall
- runoff
- climate change
- modelling
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe focus of this study is to explore and expand farmer learning processes in sustainable agriculture workplace contexts. It examines change oriented learning processes in the context of three…Publication Date 2010
- sustainable agriculture
- southern Africa
- Sustainable development
- Permaculture
- organic farming
- Training of farmers
- Zimbabwe
- South Africa
- Social and economic conditions
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- Sustainable development
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe project was initiated by Eastern Cape Parks (ECP) as a request for the construction of inventories of priority species and their population levels inside three nature reserves on the Eastern Cape…Publication Date 2010
- Plant diversity conservation
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Rare plants
- Population viability analysis
- biodiversity
- Plant conservation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Human-plant relationships
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- Nature reserves
- subsistence agriculture
- management
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Great Escarpment forms a semi-continuous mountain system 5 000 km long, stretching from Angola in the north-west, south through Namibia, and into western, southern and eastern South Africa,…Publication Date 2010
- phytogeography
- Great Escarpment
- Sneeuberg
- Nuweveldberge
- Roggeveldberge
- Endemism
- Flora - migration
- conservation
- climate change
- degradation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe exotic plant Lantana camara L. has invaded the riparian areas of the Victoria Falls World Heritage Site in Livingstone, southern Zambia, threatening native plant communities which support…Publication Date 2010
- Lantana camara
- Victoria Falls
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- invasive plants
- biological control
- Riparian restoration
- riparian ecology
- restoration ecology
- herbicides
- seeds
- Weeds
- Alien invasive species
- conservation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe spatial and temporal patterns of fire in Africa south of the equator are described and investigated to test hypotheses on the main drivers of fire. In particular, the relative importance of…Publication Date 2010
- fire ecology
- Savanna ecology
- southern Africa
- vegatation dynamics
- fires
- environmental aspects
- satellite imagery
- modelling
- global change
- rainfall
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBiomass burning contributes significantly to the global concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere (Fishman et al., 2003, Kaufman et al., 1998). The African continent is…Publication Date 2010
- Air
- pollution
- earth sciences
- remote sensing
- image processing
- fire ecology
- groundcover fires
- environmental aspects
- southern Africa
- Savanna ecology
- biomass
- greenhouse gases
- savanna
- carbon dioxide
- Methane
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordVegetation data were collected at 30 randomly located sample points during June 2009. Data were collected using both ocular estimation and line-point intercept transects each describing fuel load…Publication Date 2010
- Southeastern Idaho
- Library Collection RecordLand use and land transformation are major threats to biodiversity. Only a small percentage of land and thus biodiversity is protected within reserves. The majority of biodiversity lies in the hands…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Agrobiodiversity
- Agricultural ecology
- veld
- landscape assessment
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- plant production
- grassland
- savanna
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- grazing
- fire ecology
- soil erosion
- commercial agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this report is to provide an analysis of the impact of the global financial crisis ("the crisis") on financial flows to the water sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To gain…Publication Date 2010
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNot AvailblePublication Date 2010
- Colorado
- Library Collection RecordThis report discloses effects to rangeland resources as a result of the Klamath National Forest’s proposed action to reauthorize cattle grazing on the Ash Creek, Hornbrook and East Beaver grazing…Publication Date 2010
- Library Collection RecordThe proposed action is to suppress grasshopper outbreaks on federally managed rangeland in Southeast Idaho.  Populations of grasshoppers occur in some areas nearly every year in Southeast Idaho. …Publication Date 2010
- Southeast Idaho
- Library Collection RecordThis manual describes how to monitor three rangeland attributes: soil and site stability, watershed function and biotic integrity. Nearly everything we value about rangelands depends on these…Publication Date 2009
- Library Collection RecordThe National Range and Pasture Handbook provides procedures in support of NRCS policy for the inventory, analysis, treatment, and management of grazing land resources. The National Range and Pasture…Publication Date 2009
- United States
- Library Collection Record"The data for this report was collected at the end of calendar year 2008. It provides a snapshot look at the 2008 grazing season. Data records that were acquired for this report represent the…Publication Date 2009
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe matrices provide an indicator-based assessment of current site condition as compared with a desired condition and the potential to reach the desired condition. Inventory and tracking of site…Publication Date 2009
- Library Collection RecordAnaplasmosis is an infectious disease of cattle that causes anemia, abortions, and death. Adult cattle have the most severe symptoms of the disease. Virginia farmers should be concerned about…Publication Date 2009