Serengeti III : human impacts on ecosystem dynamics /

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 res...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sinclair, A. R. E. (Anthony Ronald Entrican)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Temas:
Animal ecology > Tanzania > Serengeti National Park Region.
Nature conservation > Tanzania > Serengeti National Park Region.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Tanzania > Serengeti National Park Region.
Animal ecology.
Nature.
Nature conservation.
Écologie animale.
Nature > Conservation.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Plains & Prairies.
Animal ecology
Nature
Nature conservation
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Understanding the greater Serengeti ecosystem / Craig Packer and Stephen Polasky
  • Historical and future changes to the Serengeti ecosystem / A.R.E. Sinclair [and others]
  • Paleoecology of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem / Charles R. Peters [and others]
  • The resource basis of human-wildlife interaction / Han Olff and J. Grant C. Hopcraft
  • Generation and maintenance of heterogeneity in the Serengeti ecosystem / T. Michael Anderson [and others]
  • Global environmental changes and their impact on the Serengeti / Mark E. Ritchie
  • The multiple roles of infectious diseases in the Serengeti ecosystem / Sarah Cleaveland [and others]
  • Reticulate food webs in space and time : messages from the Serengeti / Robert D. Holt [and others]
  • Spatial dynamics and coexistence of the Serengeti grazer community / John M. Fryxell [and others]
  • Dynamic consequences of human behavior in the Serengeti ecosystem / Christopher Costello [and others]
  • Human responses to change : modeling household decision making in western Serengeti / Kathleen A. Galvin [and others]
  • Larger-scale influences on the Serengeti ecosystem : national and international policy, economics, and human demography / Stephen Polasky [and others]
  • Land-use economics in the Mara area of the Serengeti ecosystem / Mike Norton-Griffiths [and others]
  • Propagation of change through a complex ecosystem / Ray Hilborn, A.R.E. Sinclair, and John M. Fryxell
  • Who pays for conservation? : current and future financing scenarios for the Serengeti ecosystem / Simon Thirgood [and others]
  • Integrating conservation in human and natural ecosystems / A.R.E. Sinclair
  • Appendix : The main herbivorous mammals and crocodiles in the greater Serengeti ecosystem / Simon A.R. Mduma and J. Grant C. Hopcraft.

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