Central-place analysis and modeling of landscape-scale resource use in an East African agropastoral system

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 205-219

  Coppolillo, Peter B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grazing; Herding; Human resource use; Pastoralism; Savanna; Sukuma; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL PLACE THEORY; GRAZING; MODELING; PASTORALISM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0034990431     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011148503303     Document Type: Article

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