Serengeti III: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics Book

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Understanding the greater Serengeti Ecosystem
     Craig Packer and Stephen Polaski

2. Historical and Future Changes to the Serengeti Ecosystem
     A. R. E. Sinclair, J. Grant C. Hopcraft, Han Olff, Simon A. R. Mduma, Kathleen A. Galvin, and Gregory J. Sharam

3. Paleoecology of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem
     Charles R. Peters, Robert J. Blumenschine, Richard L. Hay, Daniel A. Livingstone, Curtis W. Marean, Terry Harrison, Miranda Armour-Chelu, Peter Andrews, Raymond L. Bernor, Raymond Bonnefille, and Lars Werdelin

4. The Resource Basis of Human-Wildlife Interaction
     Han Olff and J. Grant C. Hopcraft

5. Generation and Maintenence of Heterogeneity in the Serengeti Ecosystem
     T. Michael Anderson, Jan Dempewolf, Kristine L. Metzger, Denné N. Reed, and Suzanne Serneels

6. Gobal Environmental Changes and Teir Impact on the Serengeti
     Mark E. Ritchie

7. The Multiple Roles of Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti Ecosystem
     Sarah Cleaveland, Craig Packer, Katie Hampson, Magai Kaare, Richard Kock, Meggan Craft, Tiziana Limbo, Titus Mlengeya, and Andy Dobson

8. Reticulate Food Webs in in Space and Time: Messages from the Serengeti
     Robert D. Holt, Peter A. Abrams, John M. Fryxell, and T. Kimbrell

9. Spatial Dynamics and Coexistance of the Serengeti Grazer Community
     John M. Fryxell, Peter A. Abrams, Robert D. Holt, John F. Wilmshurst, A. R. E. Sinclair, and Ray Hilborn

10. Dynamic Consequences of Human Behavior in in the Serengeti Ecosystem
     Christopher Costello, Nicholas Burger, Kathleen A. Galvin, Ray Hilborn, and Stephen Polasky

11. Human Response to Change: Modeling Household Decision Making in Western Serengeti
     Kathleen A. Galvin, Steven Polasky, Christopher Costello, and Martin Loibooki

12. Larger Scale Influences on the Serengeti Ecosystem: National and International Policy, Economics, and Human Demography
     Stephen Polasky, Jennifer Schmitt, Christopher Costello, Liaila Tajibaeva

13. Land-Use Economics in the Mara Area of the Serengeti Ecosystem
     Mike Norton-Griffiths, Mohammed Y. Said, Suzanne Serneels, Dixon S. Kaelo, Mike Coughenour, Richard H. Lamprey, D. Michael Thompson, and Robin S. Reid

14. Propagation of Change Through a Complex Ecosystem
     Ray Hilborn, A. R. E. Sinclair, and John M. Fryxell

15. Who Pays For Conservation? Current and Future Financing Scenarios for the Serengeti Ecosystem
     Simon Thurgood, Charles Mlingwa, Emmanuel Gereta, Victor Runyoro, Rob Malpas, Karen Laurenson, and Markus Borner

16. Integrating Conservation in Human and Natural Ecosystems
     A. R. E. Sinclair

Appendix: The Main Herbivorous Mammals and Crocodiles in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
     Simon A. R. Mduma and J. Grant C. Hopcraft

Contributors
Index