UID:
almafu_9959328073902883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781118858585
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1118858581
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9781118858592
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111885859X
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9781118858615
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1118858611
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1306639646
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9781306639644
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0470671769
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9780470671764
Series Statement:
Conservation science and practice series ; no. 14
Content:
BLURB TO COME! DO NOT USE TEXT BELOW! The proposed book will be composed of 16 chapters, each written by one lead author and 2-7 additional authors/contributors. The book draws on the results of five years research on the dynamics of an ecosystem where elephant and antelope populations were severely decimated more than a century ago, and then recovered. We show that both the decline and return of elephants caused profound ecosystem perturbations. A heterogeneity framework (Pickett et al. 2003) provides the conceptual structure of the book. Following Pickett et al. (2003) we consider the e.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I The Chobe Ecosystems; Chapter 1 Introduction; References; Chapter 2 The Chobe Environment; Geomorphology; Soils; Climate; Flora and vegetation in the Chobe savanna; The mammal community; Human impact; Closing remarks; References; Chapter 3 Elephant-Mediated Ecosystem Processes in Kalahari-Sand Woodlands; Large herbivore biomass density and the contribution of elephants; How can a dystrophic ecosystem support so many elephants?; An elephant ecosystem.
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Interactions between keystone and foundation species maintain regional biodiversityReferences; Part II The Substrate; Chapter 4 Historical Changes of Vegetation in the Chobe Area; Vegetation in the Chobe area before the decline in elephants; Elephants, germs, livestock and logging; Vegetation changes on the alluvium and on the sand; Elephants and the Chobe woodlands; References; Chapter 5 Vegetation: Between Soils and Herbivores; Habitat types; Plant communities, species diversity and structure of vegetation; Abiotic and biotic variables related to the present vegetation.
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Life-form and species distributionSeed-bank of woody species; Concluding remarks; References; Part III The Agent; Chapter 6 Guns, Ivory and Disease: Past Influences on the Present Status of Botswana's Elephants and their Habitats; Introduction; Pre- and post-colonial hunting of elephants in southern Africa; Disease and ecological transformation: the rinderpest panzootic arrives in 1896; Recovery of Botswana's elephant population in the 20th century; Overview; References; Chapter 7 The Chobe Elephants: One Species, Two Niches; Sexual size-dimorphism and social organization.
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Sex differences in the use of plant partsBrowsing height stratification; Sex differences in the use of food patches; Sexual segregation at the habitat scale; Implications for management and further research; References; Chapter 8 Surface Water and Elephant Ecology: Lessons from a Waterhole-Driven Ecosystem, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe; A brief description of Hwange National Park; Movement patterns reveal the dry-season trade-off between foraging and drinking; Evidence that water defines key-resource areas: population-level processes; Beyond water, habitats and social interactions.
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Surface-water driven management of elephants and savanna ecosystemsAcknowledgements; References; Part IV Controllers; Chapter 9 Soil as Controller of and Responder to Elephant Activity; The soils; Soil as a controller of elephant activities and impact; Soil controls the vegetation; Mammal communities and soil; Soil as a responder to elephant activities; Large herbivores and fire; References; Chapter 10 Impala as Controllers of Elephant-Driven Change within a Savanna Ecosystem; Introduction; Impala and seedlings; Seedling predation across eastern and southern African.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Elephants and savanna woodland ecosystems. Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014 ISBN 9780470671764
Language:
English
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118858615
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118858615
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118858615
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