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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