Wild rangelands : conserving wildlife while maintaining livestock in semi-arid ecosystems / edited by Johan du Toit, Richard Kock, and James Deutsch.
Rangeland ecosystems which include unimproved grasslands, shrublands, savannas and semi-deserts, support half of the world's livestock, while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland ecosystems worldwide from hum...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| Series: | Conservation science and practice series ;
no. 6. |
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| Online Access: | Wiley Online Library Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | Rangeland ecosystems which include unimproved grasslands, shrublands, savannas and semi-deserts, support half of the world's livestock, while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland ecosystems worldwide from human land use, over-hunting, and subsistence and commercial farming of livestock and crops. Leading experts have pooled their experiences from all continents to cover the ecological, sociological, political, veterinary, and economic aspects of rangeland management today. This book provides practitioners. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1405177853 9781405177856 140519488X 9781405194884 1283835339 9781283835336 1444317091 9781444317091 1444317105 9781444317107 |