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Boone, R. B. 2005. Quantifying changes in vegetation in shrinking grazing areas in Africa. Conservation and Society 3(1):150-173.

Digital Appendix 1. Example sources used to parameterise SAVANNA model applications.

Parameter Group North-West Province Southern Kajiado, Kenya
Plant phenology, biomass Ndawula-Senyimba 1972; Theunissen 1995; Veenendaal et al. 1996 McNaughton 1985; Georgiadis and McNaughton 1990; O'Connor and Pickett 1992; Satorre et al. 1996; Boar et al. 1999
Plant allometrics, growth Danckwerts 1987; Fourie and Cox 1987; Coughenour et al. 1990 Fourie and Roberts 1977; Hodgkinson et al. 1989; Coughenour et al. 1990; Tewari 1996
Livestock energetics, growth Zeeman et al. 1983; Van Niekerk and Casey 1988; O'Reagain and Owen-Smith 1996 Bekure et al. 1991; Murray 1995; Verma et al. 1997
Grazing effects, stocking, and habitat relationships Barnes 1989; O'Connor and Pickett 1992; Kirkman 1995 Sinclair and Gwynne 1972; Western 1975; Cooper and Owen-Smith 1986; Ben-Shahar and Coe 1992
Climatic effects Donaldson 1967; Danckwerts and Stuart-Hill 1988; Snyman and Fouche 1991 Staples et al. 1942; Mwalyosi 1992; Prins and van der Jeugd 1993; O'Connor 1994
Human decision making Vogel 2000; Hudson 2002; Thornton et al. 2004 Homewood et al. 1987; Bekure et al. 1991; Mwangi 1994; Galvin et al. 2000

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