African ecology : benchmarks and historical perspectives / Clive A. Spinage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spinage, C. A. (Clive A.)

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Springer geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Africa.

Ecology.

Ecology--Africa--History.

Climatic changes--Africa--History.

Climatic changes.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

History.

Human ecology.

Biogeography.

Communicable diseases--Environmental aspects.

Communicable diseases.

Africa.

Communicable diseases--Environmental aspects--Africa--History.

Biogeography--Africa.

Human ecology--Africa--History.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Africa--History.

Nature.

Physical Description:

xli, 1562 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2012]

Contents:

Africa background to exuberance

The changing climate of Africa. Part 1, Introduction and eastern Africa

The changing climate of Africa. Part 2, West Africa and the Sahel

The changing climate of Africa. Part 3, Southern Africa

The changing climate of Africa. Part 4, Its effects

Fire. Part 1, Introduction and history

Fire. Part 2, Effects and ecology

Vegetation and change : introduction and western Africa

Vegetation and change : eastern and southern Africa and conclusion

Locusts the forgotten plague. Part 1, Locusts and their ecology

Locusts the forgotten plague. Part 2, History of locust plagues

Other abundant populations

Too many hippopotamuses?

Too many elephants : a continent-wide problem. Part 1

Elephants : a continent-wide problem. Part 2

Elephants : a continent-wide problem. Part 3

The tsetse fly. 1, Africa's bane and benefice

The tsetse fly. 2, Decline and recovery

The trypanosomiases. 1

The trypanosomiases. 2

The trypanosomiases. 3

Rinderpest the great panzootic and its afer effects

Zoonoses animal and human diseases endo and ectoparasites mainly mammal. 1

Zoonoses animal and human diseases endo and ectoparasites mainly mammal. 2

Epidemic disease in African history. 1, Micro and macro parasites, zoonoses, introduction, viral and protozoal diseases

Epidemic disease in African history. 2, Viral diseases

Epidemic disease in African history. 3, Bacterial and higher order infections

Epidemic disease in African history. 4, Bubonic and pneumonic plague

Man's place in the ecology of Africa

Appendix 1. Age of baobabs

Appendix 2. African mammal trypanosome host-parasite list.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1417-1539) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

3642228712

9783642228711

OCLC:

740625920

Publisher Number:

99949643244