Responses of Savannas to Stress and Disturbance: the Beginning of Desertification

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dc.contributor.authorIsichei, Augustine O.
dc.contributor.authorEro, Isaac I.
dc.coverage.geographicalNigeriaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-05T09:30:37Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-29T10:58:09Z
dc.date.available2014-03-05T09:30:37Z
dc.date.available2018-10-29T10:58:09Z
dc.date.issued1985
dc.departmentBotanyen_US
dc.description.abstractStress and disturbance may be natural or caused by man but usually from a combination of extreme values of environmental variables. Their prevalence in the Nigerian Savanna and effect on stability and resilience and, in a sense, desertification has been examined. The stress and disturbance identified include drought, wood cutting and land cultivation, herbivory, annual burning. It is concluded that annual burning does not constitute a destabilizing factor as such since it could be regarded as regular annual phenomenon to which the plant species are adapted, but mainly as a force that accentuates the effects of other destabilizing influences created through improper land use. Effort has been made to place different savanna systems into ranges of stability and resilience. Suggestions have been made for improving grazing system, controlling indiscriminate wood-cutting and ecologically sensitive farming systems. Drought control is distinctly impossible except through irrigation which is not yet extensively practised. Land use and vegetation mapping must be done on a local scale permitting the application of management tools to delineated land units. Parameters of description, evaluation and prediction vary according to land use; intensive or extensive, transformational or conservational. A scheme has been proposed for assessing the phenomena of stress, disturbance/perturbation and their relationship to stability and resilience in the savanna.en_US
dc.facultiesScienceen_US
dc.format.filetypePDFen_US
dc.identifier.citationIsichei, Augustine O. and Ero, Isaac I. (1985). Responses of Savannas to Stress and Disturbance: the Beginning of Desertification. In proceeding on Ecological Disasters in Nigeria: Drought and Desertification. Kano, 9-12 December 1985.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3326
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.pages.totalpages19en_US
dc.publisherFederal Ministry of Science and Technologyen_US
dc.subjectDesertification pressureen_US
dc.subjectEcosystemsen_US
dc.subjectStress effects on total ecosystemen_US
dc.subjectSoil topographyen_US
dc.subjectNigeria Savannaen_US
dc.subjectDrought stressen_US
dc.subjectGrazing by livestocken_US
dc.subjectGrazing by Wildlifeen_US
dc.subjectWood cuttingen_US
dc.subjectWood cultivationen_US
dc.subjectLand clearingen_US
dc.subjectSavanna burningen_US
dc.subjectLand cultivationen_US
dc.titleResponses of Savannas to Stress and Disturbance: the Beginning of Desertificationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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