- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
-
One Conservation in a Human-Dominated World -
Two Shaping the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Three Scales of Change in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Four Fire in the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Five Spatial and Temporal Drivers of Plant Structure and Diversity in Serengeti Savannas -
Six Why Are Wildebeest the Most Abundant Herbivore in the Serengeti Ecosystem? -
Seven Climate-Induced Effects on the Serengeti Mammalian Food Web -
Eight From Bacteria to Elephants -
Nine Biodiversity and the Dynamics of Riverine Forests in Serengeti -
Ten Invertebrates of the Serengeti -
Eleven The Butterflies of Serengeti -
Twelve Small Mammal Diversity and Population Dynamics in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Thirteen Bird Diversity of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Fourteen The Effect of Natural Disturbances on the Avian Community of the Serengeti Woodlands -
Fifteen Carnivore Communities in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Sixteen The Plight of the People -
Seventeen Transitions in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area -
Eighteen Agricultural Expansion and Human Population Trends in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem from 1984 to 2003 -
Nineteen Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti -
Twenty Socioecological Dynamics and Feedbacks in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-One Living in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Two Bushmeat Hunting in the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Three Human Health in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Four Multiple Functions and Institutions -
Twenty-Five Sustainability of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem for Wildlife and People -
Twenty-Six The Role of Research in Conservation and the Future of the Serengeti -
Twenty-Seven The Future of Conservation - Contributors
- Index
From Bacteria to Elephants
From Bacteria to Elephants
Effects of Land-Use Legacies on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes in the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem
- Chapter:
- (p.194) (p.195) Eight From Bacteria to Elephants
- Source:
- Serengeti IV
- Author(s):
Louis V. Verchot
Naomi L. Ward
Jayne Belnap
Deborah Bossio
Michael Coughenour
John Gibson
Olivier Hanotte
Andrew N. Muchiru
Susan L. Phillips
Blaire Steven
Diana H. Wall
Robin S. Reid
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Generally, ecological research has considered the aboveground and belowground components of ecosystems separately. Consequently, frameworks for integrating the two components are not well developed. Integrating the microbial components into ecosystem ecology requires different approaches from those offered by plant ecology, partly because of the scales at which microbial processes operate and partly because of measurement constraints. Studies have begun to relate microbial community structure to ecosystem function. results suggest that excluding people and livestock from the MMNR, or preventing heavier livestock from grazing around settlements, may not change the general structure of the ecosystem (soils, plant structure), but can change the numbers and diversity of wildlife, nematodes and microbes in this ecosystem in subtle ways.
Keywords: conservation, landscape management, Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, microbial community, ecosystem ecology
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- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
-
One Conservation in a Human-Dominated World -
Two Shaping the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Three Scales of Change in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Four Fire in the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Five Spatial and Temporal Drivers of Plant Structure and Diversity in Serengeti Savannas -
Six Why Are Wildebeest the Most Abundant Herbivore in the Serengeti Ecosystem? -
Seven Climate-Induced Effects on the Serengeti Mammalian Food Web -
Eight From Bacteria to Elephants -
Nine Biodiversity and the Dynamics of Riverine Forests in Serengeti -
Ten Invertebrates of the Serengeti -
Eleven The Butterflies of Serengeti -
Twelve Small Mammal Diversity and Population Dynamics in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Thirteen Bird Diversity of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Fourteen The Effect of Natural Disturbances on the Avian Community of the Serengeti Woodlands -
Fifteen Carnivore Communities in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Sixteen The Plight of the People -
Seventeen Transitions in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area -
Eighteen Agricultural Expansion and Human Population Trends in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem from 1984 to 2003 -
Nineteen Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti -
Twenty Socioecological Dynamics and Feedbacks in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-One Living in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Two Bushmeat Hunting in the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Three Human Health in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Four Multiple Functions and Institutions -
Twenty-Five Sustainability of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem for Wildlife and People -
Twenty-Six The Role of Research in Conservation and the Future of the Serengeti -
Twenty-Seven The Future of Conservation - Contributors
- Index
