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Land use, rangeland degradation and ecological changes in the southern Kalahari, Botswana
(Wiley Online Library, 2016-02-09)
Dual-scale analyses assessing farm-scale patterns of ecological change and landscape-scale patterns of change in vegetation cover and animal distribution are presented from ecological transect studies away from waterpoints, ...
Forest Dependency and Its Implication for Protected Areas Management: A case Study From Kasane Forest Reserve, Botswana
(Springer, 2009-04-15)
Conservation of biodiversity in protected areas will be more challenging if local communities are heavily dependent on them for various products and subsistence needs. This study estimated forest dependency and identified ...
Land reforms that exclude the poor: the case of Botswana.
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2008-09-03)
Land reforms in Botswana, unlike those in other southern African countries, were not undertaken with the primary objective of redistributing land, but rather with the three objectives of increasing agricultural productivity, ...
Dam Water Level Prediction Using Vector AutoRegression, Random Forest Regression and MLP-ANN Models Based on Land-Use and Climate Factors.
(MDPI, 2022-11-11)
To predict the variability of dam water levels, parametric Multivariate Linear Regression (MLR), stochastic Vector AutoRegressive (VAR), Random Forest Regression (RFR) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Artificial Neural ...
Spatial variability of aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Okavango Delta, Botswana: considerations for developing a rapid bioassessment tool
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-07-02)
Spatial variability in macroinvertebrate assemblages of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, was examined to evaluate differences in assemblages at a regional and habitat scale. Sampling was undertaken six times during a one-year ...
Overcoming seed dormancy of senegalia galpinii and vachellia robusta through scarification pre-sowing treatments.
(Semantic Scholar, 2020-03-30)
The seeds of Senegalia galpinii (Burtt Davy) Seigler and Ebinger and Vachellia robusta (Burch.) Kyalangalilwa and Boatwright have hard coatimposed dormancy that prevents water and air from entering the seeds, which is ...
Forest resource utilisation and rural livelihoods : insights from Chobe enclave, Botswana.
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-01-31)
For centuries, developing countries have been immensely dependent on environmental resources, forests included. Despite the established contribution of forests to livelihoods, the level of communities’ reliance on forest ...
Effects of different silage preservatives on silage quality of pennesitum purpureum harvested at different harvesting periods.
(Scienceline Publishers, 2011)
The study was conducted to determine the effects of preservatives on the chemical composition of elephant grass (P. purpureum Bana cv.) harvested from N-fertilized and unfertilized treatments at different periods (3, 6 and ...
The tropical African mercury anomaly: Lower than expected mercury concentrations in fish and human hair.
(Elsevier, 2011-02-20)
Mercury is a neurotoxin and global pollutant, and wetlands and newly flooded areas are known to be sites of enhanced production of monomethylmercury, the form of mercury that is readily biomagnified in aquatic food chains ...
Socio-economic factors influencing household forest dependency in Chobe enclave, Botswana.
(Springer Open, 2017)
Introduction: Human dependence on forests is a multifaceted phenomenon. The degree of reliance on forests varies geographically, overtime and across communities. These dynamics underpin the importance of understanding the ...