On the carrying capacity for large ungulates of African savanna ecosystems

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  1994

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  1994-04-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rspb.1994.0052PMID 8008761
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Ecological separation among browsing ungulates in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya

  2004cited by this paper
• Population regulation of Serengeti Wildebeeest: a test of the food hypothesis

  2004cited by this paper
• Effect of animal husbandry on herbivore-carrying capacity at a regional scale

  1992cited by this paper
• The Pastoral Road to Extinction: Competition Between Wildlife and Traditional Pastoralism in East Africa

  1992cited by this paper
• Primary and Secondary Production in Terrestrial Ecosystems

  1991influential reference
• Maasai herding: an analysis of the livestock production system of Maasai pastoralists in eastern Kajiado district, Kenya.

  1991cited by this paper
• Invited Synthesis Paper: Spatial Components of Plant-Herbivore Interactions in Pastoral, Ranching, and Native Ungulate Ecosystems

  1991cited by this paper
• On the Relevance of Comparative Ecology to the Larger Field of Ecology

  1991cited by this paper
• Wildlife Production Systems: Economic Utilisation of Wild Ungulates

  1991cited by this paper
• Wildlife Conservation, Ecological Strategies and Pastoral Communities. A Contribution to the Understanding of Parks and People in East Africa

  1990cited by this paper
• Mineral nutrition and seasonal movements of African migratory ungulates

  1990cited by this paper
• Antelopes : global survey and regional action plans

  1990cited by this paper
• The Savannas: Biogeography and Geobotany

  1989cited by this paper
• Antelopes : global survey and regional action plans. Part 2 : Southern and South-central Africa

  1989cited by this paper
• Why are Migratory Ungulates So Abundant?

  1988cited by this paper
• Stability of African pastoral ecosystems: alternate paradigms and implications for development

  1988cited by this paper
• Conservation in Africa: Pastoralism, conservation and the overgrazing controversy

  1988cited by this paper
• Mineral nutrition and spatial concentrations of African ungulates

  1988cited by this paper
• Livestock and wildlife population distributions in relation to aridity and human population in Kenya.

  1987cited by this paper
• Rainfall, soil nutrient status and biomass of large African savanna mammals

  1984influential reference
• A common relationship between precipitation and grassland peak biomass for East and southern Africa

  1984influential reference
• The Effect of Soil Nutrient Availability on Community Structure in African Ecosystems

  1982cited by this paper
• Population estimates, densities and biomass of large herbivores in Simanjiro Plains, Northern Tanzania

  1981cited by this paper
• The Ecology and Conservation of Large African Mammals

  1981cited by this paper
• Primary productivity and herbage utilization by herbivores in Kaputei Plains, Kenya

  1980cited by this paper
• Grassland Primary Production: North American Grasslands in Perspective

  1979cited by this paper
• Game Ranching in Africa

  1979cited by this paper
• Cattle, rainfall and tsetse in Africa.

  1978cited by this paper
• Rangeland production and annual rainfall relations in the Mediterranean Basin and in the African Sahelo Sudanian zone.

  1977cited by this paper
• Biomass and production of large African herbivores in relation to rainfall and primary production

  1976cited by this paper
• The Resource Limitation of Trophic Levels in Tropical Grassland Ecosystems

  1975cited by this paper
• East Africa : its peoples and resources

  1971cited by this paper
• East Africa: its people and resources.

  1971cited by this paper
• A grazing ecosystem in the Serengeti

  1971cited by this paper
• Net Primary Productivity of Terrestrial Communities: Prediction from Climatological Data

  1968cited by this paper
• Population Densities and the Range-Carrying Capacity for Large Mammals in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

  1965cited by this paper
• Soils

  1916cited by this paper
• Geology

  1882cited by this paper

• A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa

  2025cites this paper
• An open-source method for spatially and temporally explicit herbivory monitoring in semi-arid savannas.

  2025cites this paper
• Sodium constraints on megaherbivore communities in Africa

  2025cites this paper
• Spatial modelling of large ungulate biomass in the gazetted protected areas and conservancies in Zimbabwe

  2024influential citation
• Domestic Cattle in a National Park Restricting the Sika Deer Due to Diet Overlap

  2023cites this paper
• Steps to operationalize a rewilding decision: Focus on functional types

  2023cites this paper
• Drivers of large mammal distribution: an overview and modelling approach for palaeoecological reconstructions of extinct ecosystems

  2023cites this paper
• Community composition, and not species richness of microbes, influences decomposer functional diversity in soil

  2023cites this paper
• Sabretooths, giant hyenas, and hominins: Shifts in the niche of scavengers in Iberia at the Epivillafranchian-Galerian transition

  2023cites this paper
• Relative abundance of grazing and browsing herbivores is not a direct reflection of vegetation structure: Implications for hominin paleoenvironmental reconstruction.

  2023cites this paper
• Female reproductive skew exacerbates the extinction risk from poaching in the eastern black rhino

  2022cites this paper
• Sedimentary charcoal studies from southern Africa’s grassy biomes: a potential resource for informing the management of fires and ecosystems

  2022cites this paper
• Using functional groups to predict the spatial distribution of large herbivores on the Palaeo‐Agulhas Plain, South Africa, during the Last Glacial Maximum

  2022cites this paper
• The effect of changes in human drivers on the fire regimes of South African grassland and savanna environments over the past 100 years

  2022cites this paper
• Large Mammalian Herbivores and the Paradox of Soil Carbon in Grazing Ecosystems: Role of Microbial Decomposers and Their Enzymes

  2021cites this paper
• Response of lion demography and dynamics to the loss of preferred larger prey.

  2021cites this paper
• Dynamic selection for forage quality and quantity in response to phenology and insects in an Arctic ungulate

  2021cites this paper
• Long-term changes in the plant ecology of an African savanna landscape and the implications for ecosystem theory and conservation management

  2021cites this paper
• Beyond livestock carrying capacity in the Sahelian and Sudanian zones of West Africa

  2021cites this paper
• Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers

  2021cites this paper
• Low apex carnivore density does not release a subordinate competitor when driven by prey depletion

  2021cites this paper
• Exploring a natural baseline for large‐herbivore biomass in ecological restoration

  2021cites this paper
• Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers

  2021cites this paper
• Retrodicting large herbivore biomass for the last glacial maximum on the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (South Africa) using modern ecological knowledge of African herbivore assemblages and rainfall

  2021cites this paper
• Vegetation classification for the management of large mammalian herbivores: a case study at Mushingashi Conservancy, Central Province, Zambia

  2021influential citation
• Large herbivore impact on plant biomass along multiple resource gradients in the Serengeti

  2021cites this paper
• The changing role of natural and human agencies shaping the ecology of an African savanna ecosystem

  2021cites this paper
• Seasonal dietary changes increase the abundances of savanna herbivore species

  2020cites this paper
• Fine‐scale habitat heterogeneity influences browsing damage by elephant and giraffe

  2020cites this paper
• Diet Overlap Between Livestock and Wild Herbivores in the Greater Himalaya

  2020influential citation
• Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data for Savannah Land Cover Mapping: Optimising the Combination of Sensors and Seasons

  2020cites this paper
• Strategies for global rangeland stewardship: Assessment through the lens of the equilibrium–non‐equilibrium debate

  2020cites this paper
• Borges, Joana and Higginbottom, Thomas P and Symeonakis, Elias and Jones, Martin (2020) Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data for Savannah Land Cover Mapping: Optimising the Combination of Sensors

  2020cites this paper
• Disentangling the roles of bottom‐up and top‐down drivers in the trade‐off between food acquisition and safety in prey with multiple predators

  2020cites this paper
• Drought amnesia: lessons from protected areas in the eastern Lowveld of South Africa

  2020cites this paper
• Mechanistic insights into the role of large carnivores for ecosystem structure and functioning

  2020cites this paper
• Differential herbivore occupancy of fire-manipulated savannas in the Satara region of the Kruger National Park, South Africa

  2020cites this paper
• Exploring a natural baseline for large herbivore biomass

  2020cites this paper
• Mathematical Model for the Serengeti Ecosystem under Weather Variations

  2019cites this paper
• Modelling Spatio-Temporal Variation in Sparse Rainfall Data Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Regression Model

  2019cites this paper
• The functional roles of mammals in ecosystems

  2019cites this paper
• Predator Effects on Herbivore Dynamics and Behavior

  2019cites this paper
• Long-term historical and projected herbivore population dynamics in Ngorongoro crater, Tanzania

  2019cites this paper
• When less is more: heterogeneity in grass patch height supports herbivores in counter-intuitive ways

  2019cites this paper
• Mesobrowser Abundance and Effects on Woody Plants in Savannas

  2019cites this paper
• Population Dynamics of Browsing and Grazing Ungulates in the Anthropocene

  2019cites this paper
• African and Asian Savannas

  2019cites this paper
• Pleistocene rewilding: an enlightening thought experiment

  2019cites this paper
• Modelling Spatio-Temporal Variation in Sparse Rainfall Data Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Regression Model

  2019cites this paper
• Fertilidade do solo como principal preditor da abundância de mamíferos herbívoros em ilhas fluviais do Rio Negro, Amazônia

  2018cites this paper
• More than $1 billion needed annually to secure Africa’s protected areas with lions

  2018cites this paper
• Carrying capacity, carnivoran richness and hominin survival in Europe.

  2018cites this paper
• Rainfall trends and variation in the Maasai Mara ecosystem and their implications for animal population and biodiversity dynamics

  2018cites this paper
• Climate‐driven ecological stability as a globally shared cause of Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions: the Plaids and Stripes Hypothesis

  2018cites this paper
• Reproductive effort and success of males in scramble‐competition polygyny: Evidence for trade‐offs between foraging and mate search

  2018cites this paper
• Satellite Remote Sensing of Woody and Herbaceous Leaf Area for Improved Understanding of Forage Resources and Fire in Africa

  2018cites this paper
• Optimal grazing management strategies: evaluating key concepts

  2017influential citation
• Predicting carnivore distribution and extirpation rate based on human impacts and productivity factors; assessment of the state of jaguar (Panthera onca) in Venezuela

  2017cites this paper
• Modeling Boran cattle populations under climate change and varying carrying capacity

  2017cites this paper
• Breeding and dispersal implications for the conservation of the Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri

  2017cites this paper
• Effects of pruning on the concentration of trace elements in Colophospermum mopane leaves

  2017cites this paper
• Estimating grass productivity under different clipping frequencies and rainfall amount: implications for rangeland responses to climate change

  2017cites this paper
• Wildlife Population Dynamics in Human-Dominated Landscapes under Community-Based Conservation: The Example of Nakuru Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya

  2017cites this paper
• The influences of plant secondary metabolites on the foraging behaviour and carrying capacities of the african elephant, loxodonta africana.

  2017cites this paper
• Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Variability on Wildlife Resources in Southern Africa: Experience from Selected Protected Areas in Zimbabwe

  2017cites this paper
• Hands‐on Approaches to Managing Antelopes and their Ecosystems

  2016cites this paper
• Introduction: The End of Desertification?

  2016cites this paper
• Woody encroachment over 70 years in South African savannahs: overgrazing, global change or extinction aftershock?

  2016cites this paper
• A neotaphonomic view of prey demographics and predator preferences at Ngamo Pan, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

  2016cites this paper
• Declining population of the Vulnerable common hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius in Bénoué National Park, Cameroon (1976–2013): the importance of conservation presence

  2016cites this paper
• Range Analysis and Terrain Preference of Adult Southern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in a South African Private Game Reserve: Insights into Carrying Capacity and Future Management

  2016cites this paper
• Grassland structural heterogeneity in a savanna is driven more by productivity differences than by consumption differences between lawn and bunch grasses

  2016cites this paper
• Incorporating secondary metabolites, tannin-binding proteins, and diet breadth into carrying-capacity models for African elephants

  2016cites this paper
• Factor-Augmented Modeling and Forecasting: regional animal abundance and dynamics

  2016cites this paper
• Population Regulation and Climate Change

  2016cites this paper
• Livestock Grazing, the Neglected Land Use

  2016cites this paper
• Taxonomic and functional approaches of trophic interactions between large herbivores and plant communities in a mountain ecosystem

  2015cites this paper
• Foods, macronutrients and fibre in the diet of blue sheep (Psuedois nayaur) in the Annapurna Conservation Area of Nepal

  2015cites this paper
• Animal’s Functional Role in the Landscape

  2015cites this paper
• Living Near the Edge: A Review of the Ecological Relationships Between Large Carnivores in the Arid Kalahari

  2015influential citation
• Population regulation of African buffalo in the Mara–Serengeti ecosystem

  2015cites this paper
• A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa

  2015cites this paper
• Forage yield and cattle carrying capacity differ by understory type in conifer forest gaps.

  2015cites this paper
• Does trophy hunting matter to long‐term population trends in African herbivores of different dietary guilds?

  2015cites this paper
• Convergent grazing responses of different-sized ungulates to low forage quality in a wet savanna

  2015cites this paper
• Potential impact of large ungulate grazers on African vegetation, carbon storage and fire regimes

  2015cites this paper
• Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation

  2015cites this paper
• The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes

  2015cites this paper
• Elephants and the Grazing and Browsing Guilds

  2014cites this paper
• Exploring the potential impacts of global change on the woody component of of South African savannas

  2014cites this paper
• The making of hazard : a social-environmental explanation of vulnerability to drought in Djibouti

  2014cites this paper
• Ungulate carrying capacity in Pleistocene Mediterranean ecosystems: Evidence from the Atapuerca sites

  2014cites this paper
• Effects of Animal Husbandry on Secondary Production and Trophic Efficiency at a Regional Scale

  2014influential citation
• Biomass of large herbivores in South African subtropical thicket

  2014influential citation
• Using partial volumes to estimate available browse biomass in Southern African semi-arid savannas

  2014cites this paper
• Herbivore Dynamics and Range Contraction in Kajiado County Kenya: Climate and Land Use Changes, Population Pressures, Governance, Policy and Human-wildlife Conflicts

  2014cites this paper
• Blue sheep in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal: habitat use, population biomass and their contribution to the carrying capacity of snow leopards.

  2014cites this paper
• Buffalo and Elephants: Competition and Facilitation in the Dry Season on the Chobe Floodplain

  2014cites this paper
• Biodiversity Management Plan

  2014cites this paper
• Elephant‐Mediated Ecosystem Processes in Kalahari‐Sand Woodlands

  2014cites this paper