Dedication ...................................................... v
Foreword ....................................................... ix
List of Contributors ........................................... xi
Acknowledgements ............................................... xv
PART I INTRODUCTION AND FRAMEWORK
1 Global Significance of Extensive Grazing Lands and
Pastoral Societies: An Introduction .......................... 1
Robin S. Reid, Kathleen A. Galvin, and Russell S. Kruska
2 Fragmentation of Arid and Semi-Arid Ecosystems:
Implications for People and Animals ......................... 25
N. Thompson Hobbs, Robin S. Reid, Kathleen A. Galvin, and
James E. Ellis
3 Causes and Consequences of Herbivore Movement in
Landscape Ecosystems ........................................ 45
Michael В. Coughenour
PART II CASE STUDIES
Australia
4. Changing Patterns of Land Use and Tenure in the Dalrymple
Shire, Australia ............................................ 93
Chris J. Stokes, Ryan R.J. McAllister, Andrew J. Ash, and
John E. Gross
North America
5 From Fragmentation to Reaggregation of Rangelands in the
Northern Great Plains, USA ................................. 113
Jill M. Lackett and Kathleen A. Galvin
6 Land Use, Fragmentation, and Impacts on Wildlife in
Jackson Valley, Wyoming, USA ............................... 135
Jill M. Lackett and N. Thompson Hobbs
Asia
7 Ideology, Land Tenure and Livestock Mobility in
Kazakhstan ................................................. 151
Iliya I. Alimaev and Roy H. Behnke, Jr.
8 Policy Changes in Mongolia: Implications for Land Use
and Landscapes ............................................. 179
Dennis Ojima and Togtohyn Chuluun
Africa
9 Fragmentation of a Peri-Urban Savanna, Athi-Kaputiei
Plains, Kenya .............................................. 195
Robin S. Reid, Helen Gichohi, Mohammed Y. Said,
David Nkedianye, Joseph O. Ogutu, Mrigesh Kshatriya,
Patti Kristjanson, Shem C. Kifugo, Jasphat L.
Agatsiva, Samuel A. Adanje, and Richard Вagine
10 Processes of Fragmentation in the Amboseli Ecosystem,
Southern Kajiado District, Kenya ........................... 225
Shauna B. BurnSilver, Jeffrey Worden, and Randall
B. Boone
11 Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania: Fragmentation of
a Unique Region of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem ......... 255
Kathleen A. Galvin, Philip K. Thornton, Randall
B. Boone, and Linda M. Knapp
12 North-West Province, South Africa: Communal and
Commercial Livestock Systems in Transition ................. 281
Kathleen A. Galvin, Randall B. Boone, Philip K.
Thornton, and Linda M. Knapp
PART III ISSUES OF FRAGMENTATION AND COMPLEXITY:
A SYNTHETIC PERSPECTIVE
13 The Drivers of Fragmentation in Arid and Semi-Arid
Landscapes ................................................. 305
Roy H. Behnke
14 Comparing Landscape and Infrastructural Heterogeneity
within and between Ecosystems .............................. 341
Randall B. Boone, Shauna B. BurnSilver, and Russell
L. Kruska
15 Responses of Pastoralists to Land Fragmentation: Social
Capital, Connectivity and Resilience ....................... 369
Kathleen A. Galvin
Index ......................................................... 391
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