From bacteria to elephants: Effects of land-use legacies on biodiversity and ecosystem structure in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem: Chapter 8
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Abstract
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.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | From bacteria to elephants: Effects of land-use legacies on biodiversity and ecosystem structure in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem: Chapter 8 |
| DOI | 10.7208/chicago/9780226196336.001.0001 |
| Year Published | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Chicago University Press |
| Publisher location | Chicago, IL |
| Contributing office(s) | Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Serengeti IV: Sustaining biodiversity in a coupled human-natural system |
| Other Geospatial | Serengeti-Mara ecosystem |
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