Hut With a View - 9/27/11
Blog entries from my visit to the Africa Center for Holistic Management, Zimbabwe.
see also http://hutwithaview.wordpress.com/
Sable
biosphere processes
basic ecosystem functions
The soil surface
Submitted by Peter Donovan on Sun, 12/26/2010 - 17:42Bruce Ward from Australia on the soil surface
Carbon cycle, parts 1 and 2
Submitted by Peter Donovan on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 13:25The first two segments of a video presentation/animation of the carbon cycle.
Part 1
Part 2
Brittle and nonbrittle environments
Submitted by Peter Donovan on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 06:24A new measure of ecosystem function, vital in understanding seasonally dry ecosystems and reversing desertification.
Why management that helps some landscapes harms others
Index of articles and links
Brittleness is a fairly new measure of ecosystem function that allows us to match land management to what each landscape needs.
Desertification--what it is and how to fix it
Submitted by Peter Donovan on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 06:19Why conventional "solutions" fail to reverse desertification; proven methods that work.
Index of articles and links
Desertification is an age-old problem. Since writing was invented, people have lamented landscape damage and urged better care of the land. Despite the march of science and billions spent to combat desertification, the world's deserts continue to grow.
What is desertification?
Fundamental ecosystem processes and how they work: articles and links
Submitted by Peter Donovan on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 16:40Basic knowledge to help you manage ecosystems successfully.
Index of articles and links
By understanding and monitoring a few fundamental processes that operate in every ecosystem, we can simplify the complexity of natural systems enough to manage natural resources skillfully.
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Allan Savory
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Landscape monitoring for ecosystem health
Submitted by Peter Donovan on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 16:23Conventional land monitoring can't detect ecosystem improvement or deterioration until symptoms are severe. Presents methods that detect changes early.
Index of articles and links
According to a U.S. National Research Council report in 1994, using conventional monitoring methods and data, it is impossible to determine whether U.S. rangelands are improving or degrading. They recommended an approach based on multiple indicators of basic ecosystem processes.
Fundamental ecosystem processes and how they work
Submitted by Peter Donovan on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 16:14Basic knowledge to help you manage ecosystems successfully.
Fundamental ecosystem processes and how they work
Index of articles and links
By understanding and monitoring a few fundamental processes that operate in every ecosystem, we can simplify the complexity of natural systems enough to manage natural resources skillfully.
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Allan Savory
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Improving soil health and building new soil
Submitted by Peter Donovan on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 16:10Practical methods based on proven success.
Improving soil health and building new soil
Soil health is vital to ecosystem health. Today the U.S.A.'s biggest export, in tons and dollar value, is eroding topsoil. What topsoil remains is often drenched with chemicals and nearly devoid of life. This stops the soil-building process.
Fortunately topsoil can be grown fairly quickly. Even land so damaged it has no topsoil can be restored.
Working with soil life
Submitted by Peter Donovan on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 16:08Information about the most overlooked and underrated members of land ecosystems.
Index of articles and links
