Title:

The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood-and shrub-lands in arid north-west Namibia

Author(s):
Publication Year:
1999
Abstract:

It is generally considered that the open woodlands of north-west Namibia are experiencing widespread degradation due to over-use of resources by local herders. Data are presented regarding community floristics, diversity, density, cover and population structure for woody vegetation. These are analysed in relation to abiotic factors of topography and substrate, and to settlement impacts represented indirectly by distance from settlement and directly by measures of branch cutting and browsing. Keywords: abiotic factors, biotic, open woodland, degradation, pastoralism, policy, scale, desertification, traditional communal farming.

Publication Title:

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volume:
8
Issue:
3 - 4
Pages:
257 - 277
Item Type:
Journal Article
Language:
en