The Mongolian Ecosystem Network
Environmental Issues Under Climate and Social Changes
Editors: Yamamura, Norio, Fujita, Noboru, Maekawa, Ai (Eds.)
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- Presents social and ecological aspects of grassland environmental problems
- Explains various methods for approaching problems, such as field work and statistical analyses
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The aim of this book is to describe what is currently occurring in the Mongolian grasslands, to analyze how various factors creating environmental problems interact, and to suggest solutions for sustainable management of the grasslands. The book has three parts. Part I is an introduction, explaining the key concept of an ecosystem network and providing background information on the general features of Mongolian nomadic pastoralism as well as distribution of vegetation in Mongolian grasslands. Part II describes the effects of natural environmental factors and nomadic activities on grassland conditions. Water dynamics that maintain the grassland system are analyzed in a steppe region with shrubs and in a forest-steppe region with trees. Part III describes the effects of economic and social factors on land-use and the livelihood of herders. As nomadic people moved closer to large cities for economic advantage in the 1990s, degradation of pastures by overgrazing resulted. Finally, the impacts of global warming and globalization on the Mongolian society and ecosystem are examined. This book analyzes environmental problems in Mongolian grasslands, but the contents contribute to consideration of environmental problems and sustainable pasture use in grassland areas worldwide.
- Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Ecosystem Networks as Social–Ecological Systems
Pages 3-7
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Characteristics and Transformation of the Pastoral System in Mongolia
Pages 9-21
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Distribution Patterns of Vegetation as a Fundamental Factor in Mongolian Ecosystems
Pages 23-29
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Long-Term Study of the Relationship Between Precipitation and Productivity in the Main Pasture Vegetation of a Steppe Ecosystem in Eastern Mongolia
Pages 33-42
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Water Dynamics Within the Soil–Vegetation–Atmosphere System in a Steppe Region Covered by Shrubs and Herbaceous Plants
Pages 43-63
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Mongolian Ecosystem Network
- Book Subtitle
- Environmental Issues Under Climate and Social Changes
- Editors
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- Norio Yamamura
- Noboru Fujita
- Ai Maekawa
- Series Title
- Ecological Research Monographs
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Japan
- eBook ISBN
- 978-4-431-54052-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-4-431-54052-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-4-431-54051-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-4-431-54690-0
- Series ISSN
- 2191-0707
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 320
- Topics