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- 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 RecordClimate change is a reality and will affect the poor in developing countries in many ways. The effectiveness of global change research could be substantially improved by linking International…Publication Date 2000
- climate change
- CGIAR
- soil fertility
- carbon sequestration
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe scale "jump" in hydrology and agriculture from the small scale at which individual processes such as infiltration, soil water redistribution, evapotranspiration, soil loss or crop…Publication Date 2000
- scale
- scaling
- hydrology
- agriculture
- soil moisture
- climate change
- Economic Aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is significant uncertainty about the effects of global change on the vegetation and animal productivity of pasture and rangeland ecosystems. This paper presents a synthesis of progress made…Publication Date 2000
- climate change
- management
- pastures
- rangelands
- Sensitive regions
- synthesis
- animal production
- plant production
- modelling
- carbon dioxide
- socio-economic aspects
- 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 RecordThis article describes a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenario for a world that chooses collectively and effectively to pursue service-oriented economic prosperity while taking into account equity…Publication Date 2000
- climate change
- greenhouse gases
- socio-economic aspects
- carbon dioxide
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe age-constrained pollen data of a sedimentary sequence from the crater Lake Masoko, southern Tanzania (9°20'S, 33°45'E, 770 m), display a continuous record of vegetation for the past…Publication Date 2003
- palaeobotany
- pollen
- Late Holocene
- southern Tanzania
- Zambezian woodland
- climate change
- human activity
- 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 RecordGlobal environmental change problems due to their unstructured characteristics, being marked by great uncertainties and a big number of stakeholders, prove to be too difficult to solve in a…Publication Date 2005
- stakeholder participation
- learning
- Systems change
- Global environmental change
- Transition management
- management
- stakeholders
- climate change
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSubtropical thicket dominated by the leaf- and stem-succulent tree Potulacaria afra (spekboom) accumulates extraordinarily high amounts of soil organic carbon for a semi-arid ecosystem. This has been…Publication Date 2011
- carbon dioxide
- rainfall
- restoration
- Semi-arid ecosystem
- soil organic matter
- carbon sequestration
- climate change
- Eastern Cape Province
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe estimation of near surface air temperature (Ta) is useful for a wide range of applications such as agriculture, climate related diseases and climate change studies. Air temperature is commonly…Publication Date 2010
- Land surface temperature
- air temperature
- accuracy assessment
- MODIS
- remote sensing
- modelling
- climate change
- agriculture
- temperature
- disease
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen analysis of a 12.8-m-long core (R96-I) from the southern basin of Lake Rukwa (Tanzania, 8°S, 33°E, 793 m a.s.l.) provides new information on the vegetation history of central eastern Africa…Publication Date 2005
- palaeobotany
- pollen
- Late Quaternary
- southern Tanzania
- vegetation dynamics
- lake levels
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo reconstruct the response of vegetation to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial we have compiled pollen records from the circum-Atlantic tropics between 23° 176' N and 23° 176…Publication Date 2010
- palaeobotany
- climate change
- South America
- Library Collection RecordA paleo-environmental record covering the last 16 ka (16,000 cal yrs BP) from the eastern areas of the summer rainfall region in South Africa is presented. This area is until now sparsely…Publication Date 2009
- climate change
- pollen
- stable isotopes
- palaeobotany
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe results from two climate model simulations are used to explore the relationship between North Atlantic sea surface temperatures and the development of African aridity around 100,000 years ago.…Publication Date 2009
- Human dispersal
- Heinrich events
- Paleoenvironment
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordExisting projections of the optimal share of carbon sequestration in an overall portfolio of greenhouse-gas mitigation strategies almost all assume the carbon price to be constant over time. This…Publication Date 2005
- climate change
- carbon sequestration
- forestry
- Carbon price
- Integrated assessment models
- greenhouse gases
- Economic Aspects
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFires threaten human lives, property and natural resources in Southern African savannas. Due to warming climate, fire occurrence may increase and fires become more intense. It is crucial, therefore,…Publication Date 2009
- Burned area estimation
- Fire probability
- GLM
- Hierarchical partitioning
- logistic regression
- MODIS fire data
- spatial autocorrelation
- fire ecology
- savanna
- modelling
- climate change
- GIS
- East Caprivi
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIssues of equity and justice are high on international agendas dealing with the impacts of global climate change. But what are the implications of climate change for equity and justice amongst…Publication Date 2005
- climate change
- adaptation
- Justice
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- stakeholders
- community based resource management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAttention has been directed towards both the impacts of future climate change on environmental systems and dunefield activity in the past, but there has been relatively little consideration of…Publication Date 2004
- GCMs
- Dune mobility
- climate change
- Kalahari
- global warming
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge of the southern Africa soil carbon pool, its heterogeneity, sources (from trees or grasses), and potential response to climate is extremely limited. In this study the Kalahari Transect (KT…Publication Date 2009
- geostatistics
- Kalahari
- savannas
- Soil [delta]13C
- soil organic carbon
- Stable isotope
- climate change
- savanna
- rainfall
- carbon sequestration
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impacts of climate change, drought and desertification are closely interlinked, and most acutely experienced by populations whose livelihoods depend principally on natural resources. Given the…Publication Date 2009
- adaptation
- policy
- climate change
- desertification
- drought
- pollution
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn this paper, we investigate the ways in which climate stressors and economic changes related to liberalisation alter the local vulnerability context. Household and key informant data from two…Publication Date 2009
- Economic liberalization
- Coping strategies
- climate change
- drought
- vulnerability
- Mozambique
- economics
- Mozambique
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impacts of climate change are expected to be generally detrimental for agriculture in many parts of Africa. Overall, warming and drying may reduce crop yields by 10-20% to 2050, but there are…Publication Date 2009
- Season failure
- Poverty
- Agricultural systems
- Targeting
- climate change
- global warming
- agriculture
- drought
- animal production
- plant production
- livestock
- Sub-Saharan 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 RecordMeasurements of surface ozone in the southern African region are limited to a few active and passive monitoring sites. Over the region, the mean surface ozone concentrations exhibit strong seasonal…Publication Date 2004
- Ozone
- Botswana
- South Africa
- Zimbabwe
- Zambia
- CAPIA
- Cape Point
- monitoring
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRainfall variability is an important feature of semi-arid climates, and climate change is likely to increase that variability in many of these regions. An understanding of rainfall variability and…Publication Date 2010
- rainfall
- climate change
- grassland
- policies
- Botswana
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDespite the importance of livestock to poor people and the magnitude of the changes that are likely to befall livestock systems, the intersection of climate change and livestock in developing…Publication Date 2009
- development
- research
- Poverty
- impact
- livestock
- systems
- climate change
- household income studies
- pastoralism
- Economic Aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate change impacts on agriculture could arguably be most critical for developing countries in tropical regions: their populations rely importantly on agriculture and climate-dependant resources,…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- agriculture
- impacts
- tropics
- C4 crops
- plant production
- precipitation
- modelling
- subsistence agriculture
- food security
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn situ rainwater harvesting (RWH) belong to the promising practices to support sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa facing climate change impacts. However, appropriate indicators for their…Publication Date 2009
- Ecosystem service
- climate change
- biodiversity
- soil and water conservation
- Downstream effects
- ecohydrology
- Soil Condition
- rainfall
- conservation
- sustainability
- soil nutrients
- species richness
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMethane is the most abundant organic chemical in the earth's atmosphere, and its abundance is increasing with time and has reached levels not seen in recent geological history. Methane is…Publication Date 1994
- Methane emissions
- greenhouse gases
- climate change
- cattle
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn analysis tool was developed to simulate primary productivity and crop yields for both present and possible future climate conditions. Southern Africa was delineated into 712 relatively homogeneous…Publication Date 1993
- plant production
- agriculture
- climate change
- soil
- vegetation dynamics
- hydrology
- modelling
- GIS
- rainfall
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- food security
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNow that governments are beginning to consider actions to respond to the potential threat of global warming (even if they do not yet believe that it will definitely occur), their representatives…Publication Date 1992
- global warming
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Pliocene epoch represents an important transition from a climate regime with high-frequency, low-amplitude oscillations when the Northern Hemisphere lacked substantial ice sheets, to the typical…Publication Date 1994
- palaeobotany
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary Small dome-shaped hills are recurrent and common landforms associated with plateau surfaces in the savanna woodland landscapes, both to the north and south of the Congo Basin. They may be…Publication Date 1979
- insects
- savanna
- climate change
- ecology
- rainfall
- fire
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines sensitivity of the Southern African subcontinent to climate change. It shows that the region has particularly sensitive water resources. Aridification of the subcontinent will…Publication Date 1994
- climate change
- southern Africa
- drought
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEmpirical evidence indicates that the magnitude of global warming to be expected from the relase of CO2 into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been greatly overestimated by scientists…Publication Date 1983
- management
- carbon dioxide
- climate change
- greenhouse gases
- plant production
- grasslands
- global warming
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIt is important to know how the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) will affect growth of agricultural plants. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of…Publication Date 1992
- climate change
- carbon dioxide
- grasslands
- plant autecology
- plant production
- agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordResults of various studies on the origin of Arctic air pollution are reviewed, focusing on what is known about its physical characteristics and chemical composition, as well as on emission sources…Publication Date 1995
- Arctic air pollutants
- emissions
- Origins
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe oxygen isotopic composition of modern soil carbonate is well correlated with the isotopic composition of local meteoric water. The carbon isotopic cycle for CO2 in soils can be described in terms…Publication Date 1984
- carbon dioxide
- climate change
- soils
- palaeoclimate
- palaeoecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSeasonal distribution of rainfall is thought to be important in structuring arid and semi-arid plant communities. Controlled studies of rainfall distribution have proven difficult, especially at the…Publication Date 1999
- Artemisia tridintata
- climate change
- rainout shelters
- precipitation distribution
- rainfall
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- climate
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordUsing the methods of direct gradient analysis, we investigated some of the factors responsible for species turnover in the dwarf shrubland/grassland interface of the eastern half of the Nama-Karoo…Publication Date 1994
- grasslands
- soil moisture
- species richness
- rainfall
- environmental factors
- climate change
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract 10.1002/qj.49712253008.abs An atmospheric general-circulation model with realistic land-surface properties is used to investigate the climatic effect of doubling the extent of the earth…Publication Date 1996
- climate change
- Climate modelling
- desertification
- Regional climate sensitivity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRestoration of degraded soils is a development strategy to reduce desertification, soil erosion and environmental degradation, and alleviate chronic food shortages with great potential in sub-Saharan…Publication Date 2005
- soil organic matter
- soil degradation
- global warming
- soil restoration
- agroforestry
- farming systems
- ecoregions
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- carbon sequestration in soil
- soil organic carbon
- carbon sequestration
- climate change
- restoration ecology
- degradation
- Soil Condition
- desertification
- erosion
- carbon dioxide
- fire ecology
- agriculture
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the context of climate change mitigation and poverty reduction, it has been argued that biogas energy is relevant, as it is economically and ecologically useful. In the 1980s, biogas use played an…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- Biogas
- socio-economic aspects
- policy
- rural women
- household income studies
- subsistence agriculture
- rural areas
- Burundi
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordImproving tolerance to heat stress is a major challenge in many C3 crops given the threat of global warming. Populations of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) tolerant and sensitive to summer…Publication Date 2011
- plant physiology
- climate change
- global warming
- temperature
- Fv/Fm
- hydrogen peroxide
- high temperature stress
- Lolium perenne
- population difference
- C3 grass
- Yamanashi Dairy Agricultural Station
- Japan
- Library Collection Record1. Plant-plant interactions are known to vary with changing environmental conditions; however, we have little empirical knowledge of the impact of abrupt environmental changes on millennial scale…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- palaeoecology
- management
- grasses
- modelling
- community dynamics
- ecosystem changes
- abrupt climate change
- alternative stable states
- community dynamics
- competition
- facilitation
- fire
- herbivore density
- nitrogen availability
- plant population
- Tree-grass coexistence
- England
- Library Collection Record1. Global change is likely to alter plant community structure, with consequences for the structure and functioning of the below-ground community and potential feedbacks to climate change.…Publication Date 2010
- climate change
- soils
- bacteria:fungi ratio
- ecosystem ecology
- carbon cycling
- leaf traits
- nutrient cycling
- plant growth strategy
- relative growth rate
- root traits
- soil microbial community structure
- ScotlandÂ
- Library Collection RecordThe notion of a threshold of dangerous climate change has been central to national and international efforts to address climate risks. However, the focus on a single target has now become an obstacle…Publication Date 2014
- Dangerous Climate Change
- Climate Risk Management
- Climate Policy
- Risk Perception
- mitigation
- adaptation
- socio-economic aspects
- climate change
- global warming
- management
- Library Collection Record1. Successful poleward shifts of plant species ranges as a result of climate change will depend on interactions between migrating species and the communities they invade. Although poleward migration…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- grasslands
- seeds
- germination
- ecosystem ecology
- Brachypodium pinnatum
- Bromus erectus
- invader phenology
- invasion resistance
- plant-climate interactions
- resource availability
- seed provenance
- soil heterogeneity
- summer drought
- winter warming
- northern England