287 of the laws of Kenya with the aim of reducing overgrazing in range ecosystems, improving livestock production, and increasing community awareness on environmental conservation (Nyariki et al. 2009).
Despite sporadic reductions of elk by hunters, the animals still posed a problem to the northern range ecosystems, mainly because of overgrazing.
Such unruly geometries, which are known as fractals, are obvious and ubiquitous in nature — in weather patterns, mountain ranges, ecosystems — yet the mathematics to describe them wasn't formulated until the late twentieth century.
The risks for these fragmented and narrow-range ecosystems are highlighted, and the importance of natural resilience is stressed for the assessment of vegetation vulnerability to climate change.
Globally, invasive trees alter interception, evapotranspiration, water use, and throughfall, while wild pigs (Sus scofa) have been introduced and now invade widely ranging ecosystems, with impacts to soil and groundcover, and as a consequence, infiltration, runoff and water quality.
Healthy ecosystems should sustainably provide a range of ecosystem services to meet human needs, and such a concept often cannot be expressed using the traditional ecosystem health assessment.
Ecosystems can undergo rapid change in their ability to provide a range of ecosystem services as biodiversity changes [6].
Global ecosystems support human well-being through the provisioning of a wide range of ecosystem services (MA 2005).
Soil organisms are extremely diverse and contribute to a wide range of ecosystem services that are essential to the sustainable function of natural and managed ecosystems.
Rivers are condominiums – resources shared by multiple stakeholders, and we expect them to look and be healthy, providing a range of ecosystem services vital for people's wellbeing.
