InhaltsangabeDedication. Foreword. List of contributors. Acknowledgements.- Part I. Introduction and Framework. 1. Global significance of extensive grazing lands and pastoral societies: an introduction; R.S. Reid, et al. 2. Fragmentation of arid and semi-arid ecosystems: implications for people and animals; N.T. Hobbs et al. 3. Causes and consequences of herbivore movement in landscape ecosystems; M.B. Coughenour.- Part II. Case Studies.

a. Australia. 4. Changing patterns of land use and tenure in the Dalrymple Shire, Australia; C.J. Stokes et al.-

b. North America. 5. From fragmentation to reaggregation of rangelands in the Northern Great Plains, USA; J.M. Lackett, K.A. Galvin. 6. Land use, fragmentation, and impacts on wildlife in Jackson Valley, Wyoming, USA; J.M. Lackett, N.T. Hobbs.-

c. Asia. 7. Ideology, land tenure and livestock mobility in Kazakhstan; I.I. Alimaev, R.H. Behnke, Jr. 8. Policy changes in Mongolia: implications for land use and landscapes; D. Ojima, T. Chuluun.-

d. Africa. 9. Fragmentation of a peri-urban savanna, Athi-Kaputiei Plains, Kenya; R.S. Reid et al. 10. Processes of fragmentation in the Amboseli ecosystem, southern Kajiado District, Kenya; S.B. BurnSilver, J. Worden. 11. Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania: fragmentation of a unique region of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem; K.A. Galvin et al. 12. North-West Province, South Africa: communal and commercial livestock systems in transition; K.A. Galvin et al.- Part III. Issues of Fragmentation and Complexity: A Synthetic Perspective. 13. The drivers of fragmentation in arid and semi-arid landscapes; R.H. Behnke. 14. Comparing landscape and infrastructural heterogeneity within and between ecosystems; R.B. Boone et al. 15. Responses of pastoralists to land fragmentation: social capital, connectivity and resilience; K.A. Galvin.- Index.