The race for space: Tracking land-cover transformation in a socio-ecological landscape, South Africa

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 595-611

  Coetzer, Kaera L ^a   Erasmus, Barend F N ^a   Witkowski, Edward T F ^a   Reyers, Belinda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Fragmentation; Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve; Land cover change; Landscape connectivity; Man and the Biosphere Programme

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; BIOSPHERE RESERVE; FRAGMENTATION; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITIES; MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE PROGRAMME;

BIOSPHERICS; CONSERVATION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAND USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE RESERVE; RANGELAND; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HABITAT; HARVESTING; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; RANGELAND; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; ZONATION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84883451737     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0094-9     Document Type: Article

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