Serengeti III : Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics
A. R. E. Sinclair
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago ; London : : University of Chicago Press, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (534 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Understanding the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem - Craig Packer and Stephen Polasky; 2 Historical and Future Changes to the Serengeti Ecosystem - A .R. E. Sinclair, J. Grant C. Hopcraft, Han Olff, Simon A.R. Mduma, Kathleen A. Galvin, and Gregory J. Sharam; 3 Paleoecology of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem - Charles R. Peters, Robert J. Blumenschine, Richard L. Hay, Daniel A. Livingstone, Curtis W. Marean, Terry Harrison, Miranda Armour-Chelu, Peter Andrews; 4 The Resource Basis of Human-Wildlife Interaction - Han Olff and J. Grant C. Hopcraft. - 12 Larger- Scale Influences on the Serengeti Ecosystem: National and International Policy, Economics, and Human Demography - Stephen Polasky, Jennifer Schmitt, Christopher Costello, and Liaila Tajibae13 Land-Use Economics in the Mara Area of the Serengeti Ecosystem - Mike Norton-Griffiths, Mohammed Y. Said, Suzanne Serneels, Dixon S. Kaelo, Mike Coughenour, Richard H. Lamprey, D. Michael Thompson,; 14 Propagation of Change through a Complex Ecosystem - Ray Hilborn, A. R. E. Sinclair, and John M. Fryxell. - 15 Who Pays for Conservation? Current and Future Financing Scenarios for the Serengeti Ecosystem - Simon Thirgood, Charles Mlingwa, Emmanuel Gereta, Victor Runyoro, Rob Malpas, Karen Laurenson, and Ma16 Integrating Conservation in Human and Natural Ecosystems - A. R. E. Sinclair; Appendix: The Main Herbivorous Mammals and Crocodilesin the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem - Simon A. R. Mduma and J. Grant C. Hopcraft; Contributors; Index. - 5 Generation and Maintenance of Heterogeneity in the Serengeti Ecosystem - T. Michael Anderson, Jan Dempewolf, Kristine L. Metzger, Denné N. Reed, and Suzanne Serneels6 Global Environmental Changes and Their Impact On the Serengeti - Mark E. Ritchie; 7 The Multiple Roles of Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti Ecosystem - Sarah Cleaveland, Craig Packer, Katie Hampson, Magai Kaare, Richard Kock, Meggan Craft, Tiziana Limbo, Titus Mlengeya, and Andy; 8 Reticulate Food Webs in Space and Time: Messages from the Serengeti - Robert D. Holt, Peter A. Abrams, John M. Fryxell, and T. Kimbrell. - 9 Spatial Dynamics and Coexistence of the Serengeti Grazer Community - John M. Fryxell, Peter A. Abrams, Robert D. Holt, John F. Wilmshurst, A. R. E. Sinclair, and Ray Hilborn10 Dynamic Consequences of Human Behavior in the Serengeti Ecosystem - Christopher Costello, Nicholas Burger, Kathleen A. Galvin, Ray Hilborn, and Stephen Polasky; 11 Human Responses to Change: Modeling Household Decision Making in Western Serengeti - Kathleen A. Galvin, Steven Polasky, Christopher Costello, and Martin Loibooki. - Serengeti National Park is one of the world's most diverse ecosystems, a natural laboratory for ecology, evolution, and conservation, with a history that dates back at least four million years to the beginnings of human evolution. The third book of a ground- breaking series, Serengeti III is the result of a long-term integrated research project that documents changes to this unique ecosystem every ten years. Bringing together researchers from a wide range of disciplines-ecologists, paleontologists, economists, social scientists, mathematicians, and disea
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| Emner | Nature conservation - Tanzania - Serengeti National Park Region
Nature - Serengeti National Park Region - Tanzania Animal ecology - Tanzania - Serengeti National Park Region. Animal ecology. Vis mer... Nature - Effect of human beings on - Tanzania - Serengeti National Park Region.
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| ISBN | 9780226760339. - 9780226760346
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