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Serengeti III

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 disease specialists- Serengeti III focuses on the interactions between the natural system and the human-dominated agricultural system. By examining how changes in rainfall, wildebeest numbers, commodity prices, and human populations have impacted the Serengeti ecosystem, the authors conclude that changes in the natural system have affected human welfare just as changes in the human system have impacted the natural world. To promote both the conservation of biota and the sustainability of human welfare, the authors recommend community-based conservation and protected-area conservation.

Serengeti III presents a timely and provocative look at the conservation status of one of earth's most renowned ecosystems.

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Understanding the greater Serengeti Ecosystem
Craig Packer and Stephen Polaski

2. Historical and Future Changes to the Serengeti Ecosystem
A. R. E. Sinclair, J. Grant C. Hopcraft, Han Olff, Simon A. R. Mduma, Kathleen A. Galvin, and Gregory J. Sharam

3. Paleoecology of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem
Charles R. Peters, Robert J. Blumenschine, Richard L. Hay, Daniel A. Livingstone, Curtis W. Marean, Terry Harrison, Miranda Armour-Chelu, Peter Andrews, Raymond L. Bernor, Raymond Bonnefille, and Lars Werdelin

4. The Resource Basis of Human-Wildlife Interaction
Han Olff and J. Grant C. Hopcraft

5. Generation and Maintenence of Heterogeneity in the Serengeti Ecosystem
T. Michael Anderson, Jan Dempewolf, Kristine L. Metzger, Denné N. Reed, and Suzanne Serneels

6. Gobal Environmental Changes and Teir Impact on the Serengeti
Mark E. Ritchie

7. The Multiple Roles of Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti Ecosystem
Sarah Cleaveland, Craig Packer, Katie Hampson, Magai Kaare, Richard Kock, Meggan Craft, Tiziana Limbo, Titus Mlengeya, and Andy Dobson

8. Reticulate Food Webs in in Space and Time: Messages from the Serengeti
Robert D. Holt, Peter A. Abrams, John M. Fryxell, and T. Kimbrell

9. Spatial Dynamics and Coexistance of the Serengeti Grazer Community
John M. Fryxell, Peter A. Abrams, Robert D. Holt, John F. Wilmshurst, A. R. E. Sinclair, and Ray Hilborn

10. Dynamic Consequences of Human Behavior in in the Serengeti Ecosystem
Christopher Costello, Nicholas Burger, Kathleen A. Galvin, Ray Hilborn, and Stephen Polasky

11. Human Response to Change: Modeling Household Decision Making in Western Serengeti
Kathleen A. Galvin, Steven Polasky, Christopher Costello, and Martin Loibooki

12. Larger Scale Influences on the Serengeti Ecosystem: National and International Policy, Economics, and Human Demography
Stephen Polasky, Jennifer Schmitt, Christopher Costello, Liaila Tajibaeva

13. Land-Use Economics in the Mara Area of the Serengeti Ecosystem
Mike Norton-Griffiths, Mohammed Y. Said, Suzanne Serneels, Dixon S. Kaelo, Mike Coughenour, Richard H. Lamprey, D. Michael Thompson, and Robin S. Reid

14. Propagation of Change Through a Complex Ecosystem
Ray Hilborn,A. R. E. Sinclair, and John M. Fryxell

15. Who Pays For Conservation? Current and Future Financing Scenarios for the Serengeti Ecosystem
Simon Thurgood, Charles Mlingwa, Emmanuel Gereta, Victor Runyoro, Rob Malpas, Karen Laurenson, and Markus Borner

16. Integrating Conservation in Human and Natural Ecosystems
A. R. E. Sinclair

Appendix: The Main Herbivorous Mammals and Crocodiles in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
Simon A. R. Mduma and J. Grant C. Hopcraft

Contributors
Index

About the author

A. R. E. Sinclair is professor in the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. Craig Packer is professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. Simon A. R. Mduma is director of the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute. John M. Fryxell is professor of integrative biology at the University of Guelph.

Specifications

Pm Supplier	Wiley & Sons Ltd
Pm Publisher	University of Chicago Press
Pm Isbn 10	0226760340
Pm Isbn 13	9780226760346
Pm Publication Date	2008-09-19
Pm Author	Sinclair,Anthony RE, Packer,Craig, Mduma,Simon AR, Fryxell,John M
Pm Longness	0

Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics
Key Info: 50 halftones, 65 line drawings, 37 tabs
Author: Sinclair,Anthony RE, Packer,Craig, Mduma,Simon AR, Fryxell,John M
Page Count: 522
Publication Date: 2008-09-19