'The fertile brain and inventive power of man': Anthropogenic factors in the cessation of springbok treks and the disruption of the Karoo ecosystem, 1865-1908

Africa

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 157-188

  Roche, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DROUGHT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MIGRATION; POPULATION DECLINE; RUMINANT;

AFRICA; KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANTIDORCAS MARSUPIALIS;

EID: 44649115805     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/E0001972008000120     Document Type: Article

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