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- Library Collection RecordEstimates of the value of carbon sequestration services provided by a savanna ecosystem and of the value of water for the supply of a number of environmental goods and services are developed in a…Publication Date 2000
- carbon sequestration
- Marginal values
- Water value
- Ecological-economic modeling
- economics
- ecology
- modelling
- grasslands
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMiombo woodlands are crucial to the livelihoods of rural people throughout southern, eastern and central Africa. This paper describes a dynamic simulation model of key ecological processes in miombo…Publication Date 2000
- management
- economics
- ecosytem ecology
- grazing
- fire
- grasslands
- carbon sequestration
- hydrology
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIndicators of land quality (LQIs) are being developed as a means to better coordinate actions on land related issues, such as land degradation. Economic and social indicators are already in regular…Publication Date 2000
- Land quality
- land use
- land management
- land degradation
- monitoring
- management
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordUsing normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) imagery, we examined changes in vegetative cover across Tanzania and found that overall greenness increased over 13 years from 1982 to 1994. We…Publication Date 2000
- Habitat change
- NDVI
- protected areas
- Tanzania
- Vegetative greenness
- NDVI values
- mapping
- satellite imagery
- remote sensing
- vegetation dynamics
- management
- land use
- degradation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPatterns of higher plant species richness and beta diversity were assessed using standard Modified-Whittaker plots in relation to landuse, slope position and mean annual rainfall across a rainfall…Publication Date 2000
- species richness
- biodiversity
- land use
- rainfall
- savanna
- communal farming
- conservation
- management
- 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 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 RecordWe identified land uses, vegetation cover types, and landscape patterns associated with avian community diversity in 2 rural landscapes in a hardwood forest-tallgrass prairie ecotone that differ with…Publication Date 1999-09-01
- rural population
- suburban areas
- roads
- arable land
- patch size
- population change
- breeding places
- deciduous forests
- wild birds
- shrublands
- landscapes
- habitat selection
- ground cover
- land use
- population density
- ecotones
- grasslands
- brush control
- species diversity
- pastures
- Oklahoma
- wildlife management
- prairies
- Library Collection RecordWe determined rates of western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis spp. occidentalis Hook.) density and cover change during the period 1951 to 1994 at 3 adjacent sites with nearly identical elevation,…Publication Date 1999-09-01
- population growth
- aerial photography
- grassland condition
- ground cover
- land use
- seed productivity
- ecological succession
- Juniperus occidentalis
- fires
- fire effects
- leaf area index
- Oregon
- Artemisia tridentata
- plant density
- plant competition
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordAnalysis of a Landsat TM image from a rangeland near Peddie, Eastern Cape, revealed differences in two vegetation indices (normalised difference vegetation index, NDVI, and moving standard deviation…Publication Date 1999
- land use
- management
- remote sensing
- Landsat images
- rangeland condition
- subsistence agriculture
- commercial agriculture
- 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 RecordThe biodiversity convention aims at conserving biodiversity and guaranteeing fair and sustainable human use of biodiversity. The convention further requires that the causes of biodiversity decline…Publication Date 1999
- biodiversity
- climate change
- Earth system modelling
- global change
- Scenarios
- land use
- modelling
- 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 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 RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1998-08-01
- information technology
- land use
- Western United States
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1998
- pastures
- farm surveys
- land use
- pastoralism
- data collection
- traditional farming
- Library Collection RecordHerbaceous and woody alien plants visible from a moving vehicle were recorded along 1 km roadside transects at 5 km intervals over a distance of 5869 km in the semi-arid and arid Fynbos, Succulent…Publication Date 1998
- Alien invasive species
- rainfall
- ecosystem ecology
- soil classification
- land use
- savanna
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- Phytosociology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo account for the failure of state-driven development projects, policy makers and planners have tended to blame communal farmers for adhering to outmoded traditional values and practices.…Publication Date 1998
- culture
- politics
- land
- development
- tradition
- modernity
- hybridity
- socio-economic aspects
- land use
- management
- Sustainable development
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper presents an overview of the current status, problems and prospects for achieving a better nutrient balance to support varying levels of productivity from the three major livestock systems…Publication Date 1998
- livestock systems
- nutrient management
- Nutrient depletion
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- grazing
- monitoring
- management
- forage quality
- Economic Aspects
- land use
- socio-economic aspects
- 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 RecordResults of a 1985 survey of California hardwood rangeland landowners were used to develop a multi-agency research and extension program known as the Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program. In…Publication Date 1997-07-01
- surveys
- land ownership
- conservation
- land management
- landowners
- land use
- Quercus
- California
- woodlands
- Library Collection RecordTemporal changes in land use, vegetation cover types, and landscape structure were examined in a hardwood forest-tallgrass prairie ecotone in northern Oklahoma using a Geographic Information System.…Publication Date 1997-05-01
- deciduous forests
- landscape ecology
- geographic information systems
- ground cover
- land use
- population density
- species diversity
- Oklahoma
- natural grasslands
- prairies
- botanical composition
- 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 amount and quality of inputs into soil organic matter will be altered by both climate and landuse change. The increase in growth of plants caused by increasing CO2 concentration implies not only…Publication Date 1997
- elevated carbon dioxide
- Decomposition
- organic residues
- secondary chemicals
- soil organic carbon
- climate change
- land use
- plant autecology
- carbon dioxide
- modelling
- ecosystem dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- plant production
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlteration of land use will continue to be the dominant driver of environmental change in the tropics for the next several decades. It can take the form of fundamental vegetation cover transformation…Publication Date 1997
- global change
- tropical ecosystems
- Land cover
- climate
- atmosphere
- land use
- landscape ecology
- management
- climate change
- ecosystem ecology
- 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 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 RecordIn Australia, as in other developed countries, rural industries are responding to increasing pressure to demonstrate their environmental credentials. At the same time, there is an increasing trend…Publication Date 1996
- land use
- management
- frameworks
- sustainability
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe loss of nutrients and soil has a dramatic impact on land use because rainfall in central Australia is often the result of storms.They are banks surveyed to hold water. Besides, roads often…Publication Date 1996
- water
- land use
- roads
- Flow rate
- Central Australia
- Library Collection RecordDead shrubs lying on the soil surface in an arid shrubland in the southern Karoo have half-lives of 9 to 18 years depending on wood density which varies among species. Dung pellets of sheep and…Publication Date 1996
- ecosystem ecology
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- land use
- climate
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1995-12-01
- fuelwood
- water erosion
- Albania
- coppice
- agricultural land
- Quercus
- land management
- pastures
- private ownership
- forage
- land use
- cattle production
- sheep farming
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1995-12-01
- ethics
- resource management
- natural resources
- land use
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1995-06-01
- range management
- United States
- sustainability
- land use
- public domain
- overgrazing
- common lands
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1995-04-01
- mineral resources
- migration
- soil conservation
- public domain
- land use
- drought
- controlled grazing
- grasslands
- history
- endangered species
- beef cattle
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1995-02-01
- livestock
- grasslands
- ecological balance
- land use
- wildlife
- species diversity
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1995-02-01
- environmental degradation
- land use
- species diversity
- range management
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1995
- Sudan
- land use
- Forest Land
- forest resources
- agroforestry
- water resources
- Rain forests
- rangelands
- pastures
- livestock management
- sociocultural environment
- Ethnic groups
- Sudan
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1995
- Africa South of Sahara
- coownership
- natural resources
- Tenure
- land use
- grassland management
- forestry
- animal production
- water management
- fisheries
- wildlife
- rural communities
- Role of women
- administration
- Poverty
- administration
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1995
- Pakistan
- land use
- planning
- site factors
- climate
- soil types
- rangelands
- water resources
- watershed management
- cartography
- Pakistan
- Pakistan
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1995
- Forestry development
- Feed production
- pastures
- Nepal
- Feed Crops
- livestock management
- land use
- Leases
- highlands
- monitoring
- Nepal
- Nepal
- Library Collection RecordThe concept of desertification has recently been re-evaluated with two major outcomes. Firstly, the term itself has been reviewed, with most authors concluding that the emotive implications of [`]…Publication Date 1995
- dryland degradation
- stocking rates
- grazing
- land use
- Vegetation Change
- conceptual model
- management
- ecosytem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1994-12-01
- Colorado
- land use
- public domain
- hunting
- right of access
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1994-04-01
- United States
- range management
- rangelands
- stocking rate
- land stewardship
- overstanding
- permits
- biodiversity
- diversity
- issues and policy
- fees
- market prices
- land use
- Library Collection RecordCoordinated Resource Management (CRM) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) each provide an approach for involving the public and resource specialists from many disciplines in public land…Publication Date 1994-03-01
- governmental programs and projects
- program planning
- land management
- land use
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1994-02-01
- economic impact
- farm income
- public domain
- land use
- fees
- Utah
- ranching
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1994-02-01
- decision making
- land use
- rangelands
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1994-02-01
- Great Britain
- value systems
- resource conservation
- cultural values
- Saskatchewan
- land use
- history
- Alberta
- rangelands
- range management
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1994
- rangelands
- grazing intensity
- vegetation
- land use
- Tenure
- erosion
- vegetation
- erosion
- erosion
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1994
- Sudan
- desertification
- erosion control
- resource management
- land use
- grassland management
- Cropping Systems
- agroforestry
- soil conservation
- water supply
- Credit
- planning
- desertification
- Credit
- Sudan
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1994
- China
- land resources
- land use
- crops
- plant production
- grasslands
- population density
- evaluation
- evaluation
- China
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