Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene (eBook, ePUB)

The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story
Redaktion: Cromsigt, Joris P. G. M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108157957
• Artikelnr.: 49046389

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Anthropogenic influences in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park: from early times to recent management Mariska te Beest
Norman Owen-Smith
Roger Porter and Jim Feely; 2. The abiotic template for the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park's landscape heterogeneity Ruth A. Howison
Han Olff
Norman Owen-Smith
Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt and Sally Archibald; 3. Long-term vegetation dynamics within the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park A. Carla Staver
Heath Beckett and Jan Graf; 4. Temporal changes in the large herbivore fauna of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Elizabeth le Roux
Geoff Clinning
Dave J. Druce
Norman Owen-Smith
Jan A. Graf and Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt; Part II. Theoretical Advances in Savanna Ecology: 5. Megaherbivores
competition and coexistence within the large herbivore guild Norman Owen-Smith
Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt and Randal Arsenault; 6. The functional ecology of grazing lawns - how grazers
termites
people and fire shape HiP's savanna grassland mosaic Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt
Michiel Veldhuis
William Stock
Elizabeth le Roux
Cleo Gosling and Sally Archibald; 7. Demographic bottlenecks and savanna tree abundance William J. Bond
A. Carla Staver
Michael Cramer
Julia Wakeling
Jeremy J. Midgley and Dave Balfour; 8. Woody plant traits and life history strategies across disturbance gradients and biome boundaries in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Laurence Kruger
Tristan Charles-Dominique
William Bond
Jeremy Midgley
Dave Balfour and Abednig Mkhwanazi; 9. Contributions of smaller fauna to ecological processes and biodiversity Norman Owen-Smith
Cleo Gosling
Nicole Hagenah
Marcus Byrne and Catherine Parr; 10. Interactions between fire and ecosystem processes Sally Archibald
Heath Beckett
William J. Bond
Corli Coetsee
Dave J. Druce and Carla Staver; Part III. Where Science and Conservation Management Meet: 11. Rhino management challenges: spatial and social ecology for habitat and population management Wayne Linklater and Adrian M. Shrader; 12. Reassembly of the large predator guild into Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Michael J. Somers
Penny Becker
Dave J. Druce
Jan Graf
Micaela Szykman Gunther
David Marneweck
Martina Trinkel
Marcos Moleón and Matt W. Hayward; 13. Wildlife disease dynamics in carnivore and herbivore hosts in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Anna E. Jolles
Nicki Le Roex
Gabriella Flacke
David Cooper
Claire Geoghegan and Michael J. Somers; 14. Elephant management in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Dave J. Druce
Heleen Druce
Mariska te Beest
Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt and Susan Janse van Rensburg; 15. Successful control of the invasive shrub Chromolaena odorata in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Mariska te Beest
Owen Howison
Ruth A. Howison
L. Alexander Dew
Mandisa Mgobozi Poswa
Lihle Dumalisile
Susan J. van Rensburg and Colette Terblanche; 16. Conserving Africa's mega-diversity in the Anthropocene: the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park story Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt
Sally Archibald and Norman Owen-Smith.