Title: Elephants and savanna woodland ecosystems : a study from Chobe National Park, Botswana /
Authors: Moe, Stein R. 1960-; Du Toit, Johan T.; Skarpe, Christina, 1946-; Moe, Stein R., 1960-; Zoological Society of London
Year: 2014
Subjects: African elephant Botswana Chobe National Park.; Elephants Botswana Chobe National Park.; Savanna ecology Botswana Chobe National Park.; Grassland ecology Botswana Chobe National Park.; Herbivores Ecology Botswana Chobe National Park.; Chobe National Park (Botswana)
Contents: List of contributors -- Foreword / Norman Owen-Smith -- Preface -- Part I. The Chobe Ecosystems. 1. Introduction / Christina Skarpe and Stein R. Moe ; 2. The Chobe environment / Christina Skarpe and Susan Ringrose ; 3. Elephant-mediated ecosystem processes in Kalahari-sand woodlands / Johan T. du Toit, Stein R. Moe and Christina Skarpe -- Part II. The Substrate. 4. Historical changes of vegetation in the Chobe area / Christina Skarpe, Håkan Hytteborn, Stein R. Moe and Per Arild Aarrestad ; 5. Vegetation : between soils and herbivores / Per Arild Aarrestad, Håkan Hytteborn, Gaseitsiwe Masunga and Christina Skarpe --^ Part III. The Agent. 6. Guns, ivory and disease : past influences on the present status of Botswana's elephants and their habitats / Mark. E. Vandewalle and Kathy A. Alexander ; 7. The Chobe elephants : one species, two niches / Sigbjørn Stakke and Johan T. du Toit ; 8. Surface water and elephant ecology : lessons from a waterhole-driven ecosystem, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe / Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, Marion Valeix, Hillary Madzikanda and Hervé Fritz -- Part IV. Controllers. 9. Soil as controller of and responder to elephant activity / Christina Skarpe, Gaseitsiwe Masunga, Per Arild Aarrestad and Peter G.H. Frost ; 10. Impala as controllers of elephant-driven change within a savanna ecosystem / Stein R. Moe, Lucas Rutina, Håkan Hytteborn and Johan T. du Toit ; 11. Buffalo and elephants : competition and facilitation in the dry season on the Chobe floodplain / Duncan J. Halley, Cyril Taolo and Stein R. Moe --^ Part V. Responders. 12. Plant-herbivore interactions / Christina Skarpe, Roger Bergström, Shimane Makhabu, Tuulikki Rooke, Håkan Hytteborn and Kjell Danell ; 13. Elephants and the grazing and browsing guilds / Christina Skarpe, Stein R. Moe, Märtha Wallgren and Sigbjørn Stokke ; 14. Cascading effects on smaller mammals and gallinaceous birds of elephant impacts on vegetation structure / Sigbjørn Stokke, Sekgowa S. Motsumi, Thato B. Sejoe and Jon E. Swenson ; 15. The Chobe riverfront lion population : a large predator as responder to elephant-induced habitat heterogeneity / Harry P. Andreassen, Gosiame Neo-Mahupeleng, Øystein Flagstad and Per Wegge -- Part VI. Elephants in Social-Ecological Systems. 16. Human dimensions of elephant ecology / Eivin Røskaft, Thor Larsen, Rapelang Mojaphoko, A.H.M. Raihan Sarker and Craig Jackson ; 17. Elephants and heterogeneity in savanna landscapes / Johan T. du Toit, Christina Skarpe and Stein R. Moe.