Serengeti: The origins and future of a complex ecosystem (Extended)
Project Description
Project extension: At a third NCEAS meeting, we would finalize the chapters for Serengeti III and keep to a schedule whereby we submitted our manuscript to Chicago Press by Jan. 2004. The first Serengeti books were well regarded in their time, but Serengeti III will be one of the most innovative studies of a single ecosystem ever written. Every chapter forms an integral part of a unified approach to the study of complex ecosystem, starting with soils, working through plants, herbivores and carnivores. And at every level, we fully explore the feedback loop with human activities that are based on the decisions of individuals, of villages, regions, nations and the international community. And to top it off, we close the book with a new paradigm for sustaining a place like the Serengeti in a country as poor as Tanzania.
Principal Investigator(s)
Project Dates
Start: October 27, 2003
End: November 3, 2003
completed
Participants
- Peter A. Abrams
- University of Toronto
- Christopher Costello
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Michael B. Coughenour
- Colorado State University
- Andrew P. Dobson
- Princeton University
- John M. Fryxell
- University of Guelph
- Kathy Galvin
- Colorado State University
- Ray Hilborn
- University of Washington
- Robert D. Holt
- University of Florida
- Grant Hopcraft
- Frankfurt Zoological Society
- Samuel McNaughton
- Syracuse University
- Charles Mlingwa
- Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute
- Han Olff
- University of Groningen/Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
- Craig Packer
- University of Minnesota
- Stephen Polasky
- University of Minnesota
- Mark Ritchie
- Syracuse University
- Anthony R. E. Sinclair
- University of British Columbia