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Miguel Delibes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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spatial organization and land Tenure System of the endangered iberian lynx lynx pardinus
1997Co-Authors: Pablo Ferreras, Juan F Beltran, Juan J Aldama, Miguel DelibesAbstract:The spatial organization of the endangered Iberian lynx, Lynx pardinus (Temminck, 1827), was studied in Donana National Park, south-western Spain, between 1983 and 1992. Thirty-six individuals (19 males and 17 females), including 24 adults (13 males and 11 females) were radio-tracked, providing 13,950 locations during 17,111 radio-tracking days. Iberian lynxes were essentially solitary (95.9% of simultaneous locations apart) and interactions were restricted to rearing activities by females. Adult associations were uncommon. Seasonal (four months) home ranges were larger for adult resident males (10.3 ± 1.9 km2; n= 5) than for females (8.7 ± 2.4 km2; n= 5). Lynxes used a central portion of the home range intensively (‘core area’, 50% Harmonic Mean) with similar size for males (3.7 ± 0.7 km2) and females (3.2 ± 0.8 km2), representing, on average, a 37.6 ± 1.5% and 36.6 ± 4.5% of male and female home ranges, respectively. Intrasexual home-range overlap was usually low between same-sex neighbours (15.1 ± 6.6% males and 22.1 ± 3.3% for females), but some instances of high overlap (>25%), both among males and females, were recorded, corresponding to spatial interactions between neighbours which usually ended with the displacement of one of the contenders. Core areas were mainly exclusive except during these spatial interactions. Actual fights resulting from these interactions seem more frequent than previously reported for other medium-sized solitary felids, likely promoted by high competition for optimum territories due to saturation of the population. The Iberian lynx spatial organization in Donana works as a land Tenure System, as described for other solitary felids. Although the mating System tends to monogamy, with male home range overlapping mainly that of one female, individual variations to polygyny were also found.
Rohini Somanathan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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history social divisions and public goods in rural india
2005Co-Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, Rohini SomanathanAbstract:We examine the influence of three historically important sources of social divisions on the availability of public goods in rural India: colonial power, landowner-peasant relations as determined by the land Tenure System and social fragmentation based on the Hindu caste System and the presence of sizable religious minorities. Using data on public goods from 1991, we find that regions that were under British colonial power in the pre-independence period and those where agrarian power was concentrated in the hands of landlords have lower access to these goods as do areas with high levels of social fragmentation. (JEL: H41, P16) Copyright (c) 2005 The European Economic Association.
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history social divisions and public goods in rural india
2005Co-Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, Rohini SomanathanAbstract:We examine the influence of three historically important sources of social divisions on the availability of public goods in rural India: colonial power, landowner-peasant relations as determined by the land Tenure System and social fragmentation based on the Hindu caste System and the presence of sizable religious minorities. Using data on public goods from 1991, we find that regions that were under British colonial power in the pre-independence period and those where agrarian power was concentrated in the hands of landlords have lower access to these goods as do areas with high levels of social fragmentation. (JEL: H41, P16)
Pablo Ferreras - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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spatial organization and land Tenure System of the endangered iberian lynx lynx pardinus
1997Co-Authors: Pablo Ferreras, Juan F Beltran, Juan J Aldama, Miguel DelibesAbstract:The spatial organization of the endangered Iberian lynx, Lynx pardinus (Temminck, 1827), was studied in Donana National Park, south-western Spain, between 1983 and 1992. Thirty-six individuals (19 males and 17 females), including 24 adults (13 males and 11 females) were radio-tracked, providing 13,950 locations during 17,111 radio-tracking days. Iberian lynxes were essentially solitary (95.9% of simultaneous locations apart) and interactions were restricted to rearing activities by females. Adult associations were uncommon. Seasonal (four months) home ranges were larger for adult resident males (10.3 ± 1.9 km2; n= 5) than for females (8.7 ± 2.4 km2; n= 5). Lynxes used a central portion of the home range intensively (‘core area’, 50% Harmonic Mean) with similar size for males (3.7 ± 0.7 km2) and females (3.2 ± 0.8 km2), representing, on average, a 37.6 ± 1.5% and 36.6 ± 4.5% of male and female home ranges, respectively. Intrasexual home-range overlap was usually low between same-sex neighbours (15.1 ± 6.6% males and 22.1 ± 3.3% for females), but some instances of high overlap (>25%), both among males and females, were recorded, corresponding to spatial interactions between neighbours which usually ended with the displacement of one of the contenders. Core areas were mainly exclusive except during these spatial interactions. Actual fights resulting from these interactions seem more frequent than previously reported for other medium-sized solitary felids, likely promoted by high competition for optimum territories due to saturation of the population. The Iberian lynx spatial organization in Donana works as a land Tenure System, as described for other solitary felids. Although the mating System tends to monogamy, with male home range overlapping mainly that of one female, individual variations to polygyny were also found.
Abhijit Banerjee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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history social divisions and public goods in rural india
2005Co-Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, Rohini SomanathanAbstract:We examine the influence of three historically important sources of social divisions on the availability of public goods in rural India: colonial power, landowner-peasant relations as determined by the land Tenure System and social fragmentation based on the Hindu caste System and the presence of sizable religious minorities. Using data on public goods from 1991, we find that regions that were under British colonial power in the pre-independence period and those where agrarian power was concentrated in the hands of landlords have lower access to these goods as do areas with high levels of social fragmentation. (JEL: H41, P16) Copyright (c) 2005 The European Economic Association.
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history social divisions and public goods in rural india
2005Co-Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, Rohini SomanathanAbstract:We examine the influence of three historically important sources of social divisions on the availability of public goods in rural India: colonial power, landowner-peasant relations as determined by the land Tenure System and social fragmentation based on the Hindu caste System and the presence of sizable religious minorities. Using data on public goods from 1991, we find that regions that were under British colonial power in the pre-independence period and those where agrarian power was concentrated in the hands of landlords have lower access to these goods as do areas with high levels of social fragmentation. (JEL: H41, P16)
Hambulo Ngoma - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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does customary land Tenure System encourage local forestry management in zambia a focus on wood fuel
2015Co-Authors: Brian P Mulenga, Chewe Nkonde, Hambulo NgomaAbstract:Zambia is one of the most forested countries in Africa, with about 50 million out of the 75 million hectares total land area under some form of forest cover. However, the country also has one of the highest rates of deforestation and degradation in the world, estimated at 250,000-300,000 hectares of forest loss per annum. Reversing/slowing this high deforestation and degradation trend will require the country to design and implement programs and strategies that will effectively deal with both the proximate and underlying drivers of deforestation and degradation.
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does customary land Tenure System encourage local forestry management in zambia a focus on wood fuel
2015Co-Authors: Brian P Mulenga, Chewe Nkonde, Hambulo NgomaAbstract:Zambia is one of the most forested countries in Africa, with about 50 million out of the 75 million hectares total land area under some form of forest cover. However, the country also has one of the highest rates of deforestation and degradation in the world, estimated at 250,000-300,000 hectares of forest loss per annum. Reversing/slowing this high deforestation and degradation trend will require the country to design and implement programs and strategies that will effectively deal with both the proximate and underlying drivers of deforestation and degradation. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)
