Research Catalog

Title

Fragmentation in semi-arid and arid landscapes : consequences for human and natural landscapes / edited by Kathleen A. Galvin [and others].

Publication

Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Galvin, Kathleen A., 1949-
• Ellis, Jim, 1938-

Description

xv, 411 pages : illustrations, maps (some color); 24 cm

Alternative Title

Fragmentation in semiarid and arid landscapes

Subjects

• Land use > Environmental aspects
• Arid regions ecology
• Fragmented landscapes

Note

• Publication dedicated to the late Jim Ellis.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Global significance of extensive grazing lands and pastoral societies: an introduction / Robin S. Reid, Kathleen A. Galvin, Russell S. Kruska -- Fragmentation of arid and semi-arid ecosystems: implications for people and animals / N. Thompson Hobbs ... [et al.] -- Causes and consequences of herbivore movement in landscape ecosystems / Michael B. Coughenour -- Changing patterns of land use and tenure in the Dalrymple Shire, Australia / Chris J. Stokes ... [et al.] -- From fragmentation to reaggregation of rangelands in the Northern Great Plains, USA / Jill M. Lackett, Kathleen A. Galvin -- Land use, fragmentation, and impacts on wildlife in Jackson Valley, Wyoming, USA / Jill M. Lackett, N. Thompson Hobbs -- Ideology, land tenure and livestock mobility in Kazakhstan / Iliya I. Alimaev, Roy H. Behnke, Jr. -- Policy changes in Mongolia: implications for land use and landscapes / Dennis Ojima, Togtohyn Chuluun -- Fragmentation of a peri-urban savanna, Athi-Kaputiei plains, Kenya / Robin S. Reid ... [et al.] -- Processes of fragmentation in the Amboseli ecosystem, southern Kajiado District, Kenya / Shauna B. BurnSilver, Jeffrey Worden, Randall B. Boone -- Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania: fragmentation of a unique region of the Greater Serengeti ecosystem / Kathleen A. Galvin ... [et al.] -- North-West Province, South Africa: communal and commercial livestock systems in transition / Kathleen A. Galvin ... [et al.] -- The drivers of fragmentation in arid and semi-arid landscapes / Roy H. Behnke -- Comparing landscape and infrastructural heterogeneity within and between ecosystems / Randall B. Boone, Shauna B. BurnSilver, Russell L. Kruska -- Responses of pastoralists to land fragmentation: social capital, connectivity and resilience / Kathleen A. Galvin.

ISBN

• 9781402049057
• 1402049056

OCLC

• ocn144222194
• 144222194
• SCSB-5392768

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries