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Format: 1 online resource (x, 522 p.) : , ill., maps.

ISBN: 9780226760353 (ebook) :

Content: This, the third book of the series, focuses on the interactions between the natural system and the human-dominated agricultural system in the Serengeti. By examining the ways in which humans have affected the ecosystem, the authors are able to pinpoint where the ecosystem has affected humans.

Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9780226760339

Language: English

URL: Chicago scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (534 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9786612070235 , 1-282-07023-1 , 0-226-76035-9

Content: 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

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , 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 , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-76034-0

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-76033-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.7208/9780226760353