Serengeti III : human impacts on ecosystem dynamics / edited by A.R.E. Sinclair ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sinclair, A. R. E. (Anthony Ronald Entrican)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal ecology--Tanzania--Serengeti National Park Region.

Animal ecology.

Nature conservation--Tanzania--Serengeti National Park Region.

Nature conservation.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Tanzania--Serengeti National Park Region.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (534 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Serengeti 3

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ONE. Introduction: Understanding the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem

TWO. Historical and Future Changes to the Serengeti Ecosystem

THREE. Paleoecology of the Serengeti- Mara Ecosystem

FOUR. The Resource Basis of Human- Wildlife Interaction

FIVE. Generation and Maintenance of Heterogeneity in the Serengeti Ecosystem

SIX. Global Environmental Changes and Their Impact on the Serengeti

SEVEN. The Multiple Roles of Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti Ecosystem

EIGHT. Reticulate Food Webs in Space and Time: Messages from the Serengeti

NINE. Spatial Dynamics and Coexistence of the Serengeti Grazer Community

TEN. Dynamic Consequences of Human Behavior in the Serengeti Ecosyst

ELEVEN. Human Responses to Change: Modeling Household Decision Making in Western Serengeti

TWELVE. Larger-Scale Influences on the Serengeti Ecosystem: National and International Policy, Economics, and Human Demography

THIRTEEN. Land Use Economics in the Mara Area of the Serengeti Ecosystem

FOURTEEN. Propagation of Change through a Complex Ecosystem

FIFTEEN. Who Pays for Conservation? Current and Future Financing Scenarios for the Serengeti Ecosystem

SIXTEEN. Integrating Conservation in Human and Natural Ecosystems

APPENDIX. The Main Herbivorous Mammals and Crocodiles in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612070235

9781282070233

1282070231

9780226760353

0226760359

OCLC:

435816628