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- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2000
- biodiversity
- habitats
- landscape
- Commercial farming
- monitoring
- management
- Australia
- 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 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 not available.Publication Date 2000
- Mkomazi
- Game Reserve
- ecology
- conservation
- biodiversity
- savanna
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA vegetation survey of road verges along an urban to rural gradient in the Potchefstroom Municipal Area was conducted. Important applications of these studies include understanding of the role of…Publication Date 2000
- Braun-Blanquet approach
- Dispersal corridors
- roadside vegetation
- vegetation analysis
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe species composition of grazing lands can be influenced by livestock and grazing pressure. A study on manure seed bank was conducted in Ghinchi highland Research Site in Ethiopia between 1995 and…Publication Date 2000
- manure
- species
- Life-form
- livestock
- seed banks
- biodiversity
- grazing
- species richness
- grasslands
- germination
- soil fertility
- management
- 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 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 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 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 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 RecordLarge-scale afforestation with pines is taking place in montane grasslands of South Africa. Many species dependent on the grass sward will be eliminated from the planted areas. Land should be…Publication Date 1999
- commercial afforestation
- Afromontane
- endemicity
- land type
- species richness
- biodiversity
- birds
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSmall mammal and bird assemblages were compared across fence-lines between one communal and three adjacent commercial range-lands in Namaqualand, South Africa. The communal area has twice the…Publication Date 1999
- Arid rangelands
- birds
- grazing
- livestock impacts
- small mammals
- Succulent karoo
- livestock
- management
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordInvertebrate assemblages occurring on Paulshoek, a heavily grazed communal farm in Namaqualand, South Africa, were compared to those found on adjacent, moderately grazed farms. The study was…Publication Date 1999
- invertebrates
- livestock grazing
- Arid rangelands
- Succulent karoo
- biodiversity
- grazing
- livestock
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to examine the impact of provision of perennial water supply, as a management strategy to enhance game viewing, on herbaceous vegetation. Changes in herbaceous species…Publication Date 1999
- Artificial water provision
- drought
- ecotourism
- herbivore impacts
- proximal polygons
- spatial dynamics
- temporal dynamics
- wildlife management
- savanna
- management
- piosphere
- animal impact
- species richness
- biodiversity
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA paired site study was conducted of communally grazed eutrophic and dystrophic grasslands and adjacent ungrazed areas of varying periods of exclusion from communal grazing. This allowed…Publication Date 1999
- grasslands
- grazing
- rural areas
- subsistence agriculture
- animal production
- plant production
- biodiversity
- Africa
- 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 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 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 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 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 RecordThe effects of herbicide applications to kill honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa Torr.) on community diversity are poorly documented. Our objective was to test the hypothesis that herbicide…Publication Date 1997-03-01
- nontarget organisms
- rodents
- biodiversity
- wild birds
- Prosopis glandulosa
- triclopyr
- species diversity
- rain
- vegetation
- Texas
- canopy
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1997
- Kenya
- biodiversity
- Nature conservation
- ecosystems
- animals
- plants
- woodlands
- grasslands
- wetlands
- Kenya
- Library Collection RecordIntensification of agriculture in the tropics has resulted from a shortage of farmland and insufficient food production to satisfy the needs of an expanding population. Many tropical farmers are…Publication Date 1997
- Decomposition
- Decomposer biota
- biodiversity
- soil fertility
- Agricultural intensification
- Biotic interactions
- Ecosystem function
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMontane grasslands in high rainfall areas of South Africa are subject to large-scale afforestation, making wildlife conservation evaluations necessary. A system which uses landscape features to…Publication Date 1997
- bird
- butterfly
- endemic
- grasshopper
- species richness
- biodiversity
- savanna
- conservation
- soil classification
- 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 RecordGrazed and ungrazed sites subjected to different fire frequencies were sampled on the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area in northeast Kansas after 4 years of bison grazing (1987-1991). The objective…Publication Date 1996-09-01
- biodiversity
- bison
- topography
- frequency
- Kansas
- fires
- plant communities
- prairies
- botanical composition
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordThese proceedings are the result of a symposium, "Conserving biodiversity on native rangelands" held on August 17, 1995 in Fort Robinson State Park, NE. The purpose of this symposium was to…Publication Date 1996
- biodiversity
- drought
- conservation
- sustainability
- North Dakota
- black-tailed prairie dog
- neotropical migratory bird
- fire
- greater prairie chicken
- Library Collection RecordWe outline the results of recent work aimed at determining the impact of grazing on biodiversity of the arid and semi-arid rangelands. We examined changes in the abundance and species composition of…Publication Date 1996
- biodiversity
- grazing
- water
- biodiversity
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- Australia
- biodiversity
- invasive species
- Nature conservation
- Library Collection RecordRangeland wildlife dynamics are based on refuge habitats. Piospheres result from grazing impact around waterpoints and biodiversity is affected by grazing intensity. Wildlife losses have been…Publication Date 1996
- islands
- wildlife
- biodiversity
- pastoralism
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordA number of authors have emphasised the importance of areas outside nature reserves in the maintenance of biodiversity. A study of the vegetation of the Scotia country of western New South Wales on…Publication Date 1996
- conservation (storage)
- vegetation
- biodiversity
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordMountain grassland: biodiversity and agricultural value. [Papers], FAO, Rome (Italy). Regional Office for Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). Bureau Regional pour l'Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). European…Publication Date 1995
- meadows
- pastures
- biodiversity
- Bulgaria
- Feed Crops
- crop yield
- Bulgaria
- Library Collection RecordMountain grassland: biodiversity and agricultural value. [Papers], FAO, Rome (Italy). Regional Office for Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). Bureau Regional pour l'Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). European…Publication Date 1995
- alpine grasslands
- pastures
- biodiversity
- plant ecology
- France
- dairy cows
- France
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1995
- dairy cows
- biodiversity
- pastures
- alpine grasslands
- plant ecology
- France
- Library Collection RecordMountain grassland: biodiversity and agricultural value. [Papers], FAO, Rome (Italy). Regional Office for Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). Bureau Regional pour l'Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). European…Publication Date 1995
- grasslands
- grazing
- flora
- biodiversity
- flora
- Library Collection RecordMountain grassland: biodiversity and agricultural value. [Papers], FAO, Rome (Italy). Regional Office for Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). Bureau Regional pour l'Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). European…Publication Date 1995
- meadows
- soil management
- Feed grasses
- quality
- biodiversity
- Spain
- highlands
- Library Collection RecordMountain grassland: biodiversity and agricultural value. [Papers], FAO, Rome (Italy). Regional Office for Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). Bureau Regional pour l'Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). European…Publication Date 1995
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- Italy
- highlands
- Library Collection RecordMountain grassland: biodiversity and agricultural value. [Papers], FAO, Rome (Italy). Regional Office for Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). Bureau Regional pour l'Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). European…Publication Date 1995
- alpine grasslands
- biodiversity
- France
- evaluation
- France
- evaluation
- Library Collection RecordMountain grassland: biodiversity and agricultural value. [Papers], FAO, Rome (Italy). Regional Office for Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). Bureau Regional pour l'Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). European…Publication Date 1995
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- Library Collection RecordMountain grassland: biodiversity and agricultural value. [Papers], FAO, Rome (Italy). Regional Office for Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). Bureau Regional pour l'Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). European…Publication Date 1995
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- highlands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1995
- grasslands
- highlands
- Europe
- biodiversity
- Agronomic characters
- Feed Crops
- quality
- nutritive value
- crop yield
- stocking density
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordMountain grassland: biodiversity and agricultural value. [Papers], FAO, Rome (Italy). Regional Office for Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). Bureau Regional pour l'Europe; FAO, Rome (Italy). European…Publication Date 1995
- grasslands
- Feed Crops
- biodiversity
- highlands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1995
- biodiversity
- France
- alpine grasslands
- evaluation
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 1995
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- highlands
- Italy