UID:
almafu_9960117659802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxxvi, 405 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-15795-5
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1-108-15879-X
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1-139-38279-9
Serie:
Ecology, biodiversity and conservation
Inhalt:
Centring on South Africa's Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, this book synthesizes a century of insights from the ecology and conservation management of one of Africa's oldest protected wildlife areas. The park provides important lessons for conservation management, as it has maintained conservation values rivalling those of much larger parks sometimes through, and sometimes despite, strong management interventions, including the rescue of the white rhino from extinction. In addition, the book highlights the ecological science produced in the park, much of which has become widely influential, including the megaherbivore concept, new functional approaches to understanding biomes, and new understandings about the role of consumers in shaping ecosystems. The volume is ideal for researchers and policymakers interested in the conservation of relatively small, isolated and protected areas.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Apr 2017).
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Cover -- Half title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Further Details on Zulu Place Names in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park -- Acknowledgements -- Preamble -- Map of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park -- Part I Setting the Scene -- 1 Anthropogenic Influences in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park: From Early Times to Recent Management -- 2 The Abiotic Template for the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park's Landscape Heterogeneity -- 3 Long-Term Vegetation Dynamics within the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park -- 4 Temporal Changes in the Large Herbivore Fauna of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park -- Part II Theoretical Advances in Savanna Ecology -- 5 Megaherbivores, Competition and Coexistence within the Large Herbivore Guild -- 6 The Functional Ecology of Grazing Lawns: How Grazers, Termites, People, and Fire Shape HiP's Savanna Grassland Mosaic -- 7 Demographic Bottlenecks and Savanna Tree Abundance -- 8 Woody Plant Traits and Life-History Strategies across Disturbance Gradients and Biome Boundaries in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park -- 9 Contributions of Smaller Fauna to Ecological Processes and Biodiversity -- 10 Interactions between Fire and Ecosystem Processes -- Part III Where Science and Conservation Management Meet -- 11 Rhino Management Challenges: Spatial and Social Ecology for Habitat and Population Management -- 12 Reassembly of the Large Predator Guild into Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park -- 13 Wildlife Disease Dynamics in Carnivore and Herbivore Hosts in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park -- 14 Elephant Management in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park -- 15 Successful Control of the Invasive Shrub Chromolaena odorata in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park -- 16 Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene: The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-62799-0
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-03176-1
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139382793
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