Serengeti III : human impacts on ecosystem dynamics /
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. |
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| Description: | x, 522 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7409620 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Understanding the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
- 2. Historical and Future Changes to the Serengeti Ecosystem
- 3. Paleoecology of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem
- 4. The Resource Basis of Human-Wildlife Interaction
- 5. Generation and Maintenance of Heterogeneity in the Serengeti Ecosystem
- 6. Global Environmental Changes and Their Impact On the Serengeti
- 7. The Multiple Roles of Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti Ecosystem
- 8. Reticulate Food Webs in Space and Time: Messages from the Serengeti
- 9. Spatial Dynamics and Coexistence of the Serengeti Grazer Community
- 10. Dynamic Consequences of Human Behavior in the Serengeti Ecosystem
- 11. Human Responses to Change: Modeling Household Decision Making in Western Serengeti
- 12. Larger-Scale Influences on the Serengeti Ecosystem: National and International Policy, Economics, and Human Demography
- 13. Land-Use Economics in the Mara Area of the Serengeti Ecosystem
- 14. Propagation of Change through a Complex Ecosystem
- 15. Who Pays for Conservation? Current and Future Financing Scenarios for the Serengeti Ecosystem
- 16. Integrating Conservation in Human and Natural Ecosystems
- Appendix. The Main Herbivorous Mammals and Crocodiles in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
- Contributors
- Index
