Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. ONE. Introduction: Understanding the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem 1
5. TWO. Historical and Future Changes to the Serengeti Ecosystem 7
6. THREE. Paleoecology of the Serengeti- Mara Ecosystem 47
7. FOUR. The Resource Basis of Human- Wildlife Interaction 95
8. FIVE. Generation and Maintenance of Heterogeneity in the Serengeti Ecosystem 135
9. SIX. Global Environmental Changes and Their Impact on the Serengeti 183
10. SEVEN. The Multiple Roles of Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti Ecosystem 209
11. EIGHT. Reticulate Food Webs in Space and Time: Messages from the Serengeti 241
12. NINE. Spatial Dynamics and Coexistence of the Serengeti Grazer Community 277
13. TEN. Dynamic Consequences of Human Behavior in the Serengeti Ecosyst 301
14. ELEVEN. Human Responses to Change: Modeling Household Decision Making in Western Serengeti 325
15. TWELVE. Larger-Scale Influences on the Serengeti Ecosystem: National and International Policy, Economics, and Human Demography 347
16. THIRTEEN. Land Use Economics in the Mara Area of the Serengeti Ecosystem 379
17. FOURTEEN. Propagation of Change through a Complex Ecosystem 417
18. FIFTEEN. Who Pays for Conservation? Current and Future Financing Scenarios for the Serengeti Ecosystem 443
19. SIXTEEN. Integrating Conservation in Human and Natural Ecosystems 471
20. APPENDIX. The Main Herbivorous Mammals and Crocodiles in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem 497
21. Contributors 507
22. Index 513