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Ecotourism in Botswana: 30 years later
(Tailor and Francis Online; https://www.tandfonline.com, 2015-08-10)
Thirty years ago, conservationists, host communities, academics, and tourism practitioners perceived ecotourism as a panacea to conservation and poverty problems in tourism destination areas, especially in developing ...
Water use practices, water quality, and households' diarrheal encounters in communities along the Boro-Thamalakane-Boteti river system, Northern Botswana
(BioMed Central; https://jhpn.biomedcentral.com, 2015-11-18)
Abstract
Background: Some rural African communities residing along rivers use the untreated river water for domestic
purposes, making them vulnerable to waterborne diseases such as diarrhea.
Methods: We determined water ...
Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands.
(Ecological Society of America; https://www.esa.org/esa/, 2014-04-01)
Herbivory and fire shape plant community structure in grass‐dominated ecosystems, but these disturbance regimes are being altered around the world. To assess the consequences of such alterations, we excluded large herbivores ...
Improving financial inclusion of the socially and economically disadvantaged in Botswana through the Grameen Bank Microcredit Model
(Botswana Journal of Business; http://journals.ub.bw, 2016-10-04)
Almost fifty years after attaining independence from the Great Britain and achieving remarkable economic development, Botswana is still struggling to have universal financial inclusion for its people. This paper discusses ...
Flood variation and soil nutrient content in floodplain vegetation communities in the Okavango Delta
(South African Journal of Science; http://www.scielo.org.za, 2014-02)
We investigated the influence of hydroperiod variation on soil nutrient content in the Okavango Delta seasonal floodplains. Soil samples were collected from eight zones of homogenous vegetation cover after low and high ...
Climate variability and rural livelihoods: how households perceive and adapt to climatic shocks in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(American Meteorological Society; https://journals.ametsoc.org, 2016-04)
Climate variability and change have adverse effects on agricultural production and other livelihood strategies of the rural households. The paper hypothesizes that rural households naturally devise means of overcoming the ...
Variation of physico-chemical parameters along a river transect through the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Tailor and Francis Online; https://www.tandfonline.com, 2016-06-07)
The Okavango Delta depends on water quantity and quality to sustain its ecosystem services. Whereas many studies have been carried out on its hydrology, few have been done on water quality in the delta. Water pH, electrical ...
Soil factors that influence the abundance and distribution of threatened and endangered species in the Okavango Delta; with particular emphasis on Eulophia angolensis
(Scientific Research Publishing, http://www.scirp.org, 2015-05-19)
Eulophia angolensis is an endangered plant species found in the Okavango Delta. Generally, there is lack of botanical information on this species in Botswana, which is necessary for its in -situ and ex-situ conservation. ...
Remote sensing-derived hydroperiod as a predictor of floodplain vegetation composition
(Springer Link; https://link.springer.com, 2014-02-13)
Characterising hydroperiod and vegetation for flood-pulsed wetlands is a critical first step towards understanding their ecology. In large, data-poor wetlands such as Botswana’s Okavango Delta, quantifying hydrology and ...
Tree–grass competition along a catenal gradient in a mesic grassland, South Africa
(Wiley Online Library; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com, 2014-03-03)
The interaction, both above and belowground, between tree saplings and the
surrounding grass sward is dependent on solar radiation, temperature, rainfall,
soil depth, tree species and sward composition. These factors, ...