This paper explores the roles of subsistence cultivation and human and livestock population growth on habitat and wildlife declines in semiarid African savannas. Private landowners investing in mechanized agriculture are determined to be likely drivers.
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Homewood, K., Lambin, E. F., Coast, E., Kariuki, A., Kikulai, I., Kiveliai, J., Said, M., Serneels, S. and Thompson, M. 2001. Long-term changes in Serengeti-Mara wildebeest and land cover: Pastoralism, population, or policies? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2001 98:12544-12549.
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2001
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