Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 10 of 11 << page
of 2
>>
Sort by

Book
Science and colonial expansion : the role of the British Royal botanic gardens
Author:
ISBN: 012134150X Year: 1979 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Academic press


Book
Guide to the naturalized invasive plants of Eastern Africa
Authors: ---
ISBN: 1787857816 1786392143 1786394383 Year: 2017 Publisher: UK CABI

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Both in Ethiopia and in the countries of East Africa, the continuing proliferation and spread of invasive alien species (IAS) is now recognized as a serious problem, which needs to be addressed. While this situation has improved dramatically over the past 10 years, further progress has been hampered by the absence, hitherto, of a comprehensive IAS database for the region. Countries in the region have repeatedly expressed the need for such a database, as a tool to assist in the identification of naturalized and invasive alien plant species, and in understanding their impacts, both existing and potential, while also providing pointers on what can be done to manage such species. This information is seen as essential, not only in enabling countries to develop effective IAS management strategies, but also in helping them to meet their obligations under various international agreements and treaties, including Article 8 (h) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Target 9 of the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. In providing such a database, this Guide is intended to give the countries of eastern Africa the information they require, in order to be able to develop effective strategies for combating the growing menace posed by invasive alien plants. It is further hoped that this Guide will foster increased regional collaboration, in responding to the challenges of managing shared invasive plant species. The Guide is based on the findings of extensive roadside surveys, carried out throughout the region, and on a review of the literature pertaining to naturalization and/or invasiveness among alien plants in eastern Africa. By this means, scores of exotic plant species were found to have escaped from cultivation, and to have established populations in the 'wild', to the detriment of natural resources and the millions of people in the region who depend on these resources. Included in the Guide are descriptions of roughly 200 exotic plant species which are either invasive already or which are deemed to have the potential to become invasive in the region. The profiled species include aquatic invasive plants or waterweeds (seven species); vines, creepers or climbers (20 species); terrestrial herbs, shrubs, and succulents (more than 30 species of each), and trees (more than 60 species). Also profiled in this Guide are many exotic plant species which, although their current distribution in the region may still be relatively localized, nevertheless have the potential to become considerably more widespread and problematic. The wide range of habitats and climatic conditions found within Ethiopia and across East Africa make the region as a whole particularly prone to invasions by a host of introduced plant species. Such invasions are being facilitated by increased land degradation, especially through overgrazing and deforestation, and also by climate change.


Book
Fusion foodways of Africa's Gold Coast in the Atlantic era
Author:
ISBN: 1283551020 9786613863478 9004234098 9789004234093 9781283551021 9789004224124 9004224122 6613863475 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

As most people in Atlantic-era West Africa—as in contemporary Europe and the Americas—were farmers, fields and gardens were the primary terrain where they engaged the opportunities and challenges of nascent globalization. Agricultural changes and culinary cross-currents from the Gold Coast indicate that Africans engaged the Atlantic world not with passivity but as full partners with others on continents whose histories have enjoyed longer, and greater, scholarly attention. The most important ‘seeds of change’ are not to be found in the DNA of crops and critters carried across the seas but instead in the creativity and innovation of the people who engaged the challenges and opportunities of the Atlantic World. 


Book
The Nature of Christianity in Northern Tanzania
Author:
ISBN: 0739177818 9780739177815 073917780X 9780739177808 9781306114592 1306114594 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham Lexington Books

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The Nature of Christianity in Northern Tanzania explores the relationship between the environment and social change on Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru during the German colonial period (1890-1916). The work analyzes the synergy between landscape change, exotic plant introduction, and Christian missionizing, showing how these three types of transformation impacted upon each other as well as the changing African societies to create a new African/German landscape.

Plantes et paysages d'Afrique : Une histoire à explorer.
Author:
ISSN: 09934294 ISBN: 2865378306 9782865378302 Year: 1998 Volume: *62 Publisher: Paris : Karthala : Centre de Recherches Africaines,


Book
Wheat for the nontraditional warm areas : A proceedings of the international conference, July 29 - August 3, 1990, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.
Author:
ISBN: 9686127461 9789686127461 Year: 1991 Publisher: Lisboa : International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center,


Book
All things harmless, useful, and ornamental
Author:
ISBN: 1469651637 1469651629 9781469651620 9781469651637 9781469651606 1469651602 9781469651613 1469651610 9798890852793 Year: 2019 Publisher: Chapel Hill

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Species acclimatization - the organized introduction of organisms to a new region - is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters, and exchange supposedly useful local and exotic organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement, arguing that the colonies, not the imperial centers, led the movement for species acclimatization.


Periodical
Introdukt͡sii͡a roslyn = : Plant introduction.
Author:
ISSN: 2663290X 16056574 Year: 1999 Publisher: Kyïv : Naukova dumka,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

experimental plant biology --- plant introduction --- plant breeding and selection --- park science --- plant conservation --- Plant introduction --- Botany --- Plant conservation --- Plant introduction. --- Experiments --- Ukraine. --- Introduction of plants --- Botany, Economic --- Phytogeography --- Alien plants --- Exotic plants --- Pest introduction --- Native vegetation conservation --- Plants --- Vegetation conservation --- Nature conservation --- Plants, Protection of --- Endangered plants --- Fungi conservation --- Rare plants --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Conservation --- Extinction --- An Úcráin --- Europe --- I-Yukreyini --- IYukreyini --- Malorosii͡ --- Małorosja --- Oekraïne --- Ookraan --- Oukraïne --- Oykrania --- Petite-Russie --- U.S.R.R. --- Ucrægna --- Úcráin --- Ucraina --- Ucrania --- Ucrayena --- ʻUkelena --- Ukraïna --- Ukrainæ --- Uḳraʼinah --- Ukrainian Council Socialist Republic --- Ukrainian S.S.R. --- Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic --- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic --- Ukrainio --- Ukrainmudin Orn --- Ukraïnsʹka Radi͡ansʹka Sot͡sialistychna Respublika --- Ukrainska Radyanska Sotsialistychna Respublika --- Ukrainska Sotsialistychna Radianska Respublika --- Ukraïnsʹka Sot͡sii͡alistychna Radi͡ansʹka Respublika --- Ukrainskai͡a Sovetskai͡a Sot͡sialisticheskai͡a Respublika --- Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika --- Ukrainujo --- Ukrajina --- Ūkrāniy --- Ukranya --- Ukrayiina --- Ukrayina --- Ukrayna --- Ukuraina --- Ukyáña --- Wcráin --- Yn Ookraan --- Yr Wcráin --- Yukrain --- Ukraine --- Plant conservation. --- Experiments. --- Floristic botany

Listing 1 - 10 of 11 << page
of 2
>>
Sort by