US-South Africa Dissertation Enhancement: Modeling of Herbivore Population Dynamics at Kruger National Park

9731004 Getz&Amp；Fortmann该奖项支持将于1998年8月4日至7日在津巴布韦瓜艾河举行的美国-南部非洲野生动物社区管理计划科学基础研讨会的22名与会者(8名美国人和14名非洲人)。其他参与者包括来自欧洲的2人，以及包括南非在内的南部非洲地区的约40人。联合组织者是加州大学伯克利分校环境科学、政策和管理系Wayne Getz博士和Louise Fortmann博士，以及津巴布韦哈拉雷世界野生动物基金会项目负责人David Cumming博士。这一多学科研讨会将包括自然和社会科学家、资源管理人员和政策制定者。南部非洲的许多地区开始使用基于社区的自然资源管理(CBNRM)计划来保护农村稀树草原土地，作为扩大国家公园面积的一种手段。目前，CBNRM项目收集、解释和传播的数据之间存在很大差异。因此，没有关于这些生态系统的可靠区域评估，也没有关于发展和全球变化如何影响这些生态系统的可靠区域评估。在这次研讨会期间，学员将了解博茨瓦纳、纳米比亚和津巴布韦的CBNRM项目，之后他们将在以下领域组成工作组：1)环境监测和评估，2)软件和硬件项目，3)社区管理和项目评估。每个小组将确定其数据库需求和要求，然后他们将共同建立一套共同的科学协议和软件包，供所有CBNRM计划用于收集、解释和管理数据以及进行计划评估。这些共同协议和软件包的使用将提高数据收集和评估的可靠性，这将使信息能够用于南部非洲国家公园以外的热带草原生态系统的新的长期区域数据库--这是对该区域科学基础设施的一个非常重大的贡献。这样一个数据库的提供将使世界各地的研究人员能够获得关于南部非洲生物多样性丧失的新知识。通用协议还将用于SAVE GAME(南部非洲草原生态系统地理评估、监测和评估)试点计划，为南部非洲农村地区提供科学设计的CBNRM计划。这笔助学金将支持两名来自美国的研究生参与。国际项目部和生物基础设施部共同支持这次研讨会。

9731004 Getz & Fortmann This award supports 22 participants (8 US and 14 African) in the US-Southern Africa Workshop on the Scientific Foundations of Programs for Community Based Management of Wildlife, to be held at Gwaai River, Zimbabwe, August 4-7, 1998. Additional participants include 2 from Europe, and about 40 from the Southern Africa region, including South Africa. The co-organizers are Drs. Wayne Getz and Louise Fortmann, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. David Cumming, Head of the World Wildlife Fund Program Officer in Harare, Zimbabwe. This multidisciplinary workshop will include natural and social scientists, resource managers, and policy makers. Many parts of Southern Africa are starting to use community based natural resource management (CBNRM) programs to preserve rural savanna lands as a mean of augmenting national park areas. Currently there is a great deal of variation among the sets of data collected, interpreted, and disseminated by the CBNRM programs. As a result there are no reliable regional assessments on these ecosystems, or how development and global change is affecting them. During this workshop participants will learn about CBNRM programs in Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, after which they will form working groups in the areas of: 1) environmental monitoring and evaluation, 2) software and hardware programs, and 3) community management and program evaluation. Each group will identify its database needs and requirements, and then collectively they will establish a common set of scientific protocols and software packages to be used by all CBNRM programs for the collection, interpretation, and management of data, and for program evaluation. The use of these common protocols and software packages will increase the reliability of data collections and assessments, which will enable the information to be used for a new, long-term regional data base on Southern Africa's savanna ecos ystems which are outside of the national parks--a very significant contribution to the region's scientific infrastructure. The availability of such a database will enable researchers worldwide to have access to new knowledge about the loss of biodiversity in Southern Africa. The common protocols will also be used in a SAVE GAME (Southern African Veld Ecosystems Geographic Assessment, Monitoring, & Evaluation) pilot program to provide rural Southern Africa areas with scientifically well designed CBNRM programs. This grant will support the participation of two graduate students from the United States. The Division of International Programs and the Division of Biological Infrastructure are jointly supporting this workshop.