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Each of the Serengeti volumes has been designed to address different issues and problems. The intent of the first volume (1979) was modest; simply to put in one place what was then known about the functioning of the ecosystem. The second volume (1995), apart from updating the information, addressed issues of conservation in the protected area and surrounding human-dominated agricultural and pastoral regions. This third volume focuses on changes to the Greater Serengeti ecosystem. We start with changes in the recent past and palaeohistory. We examine possible future changes. We then model the effects of these changes on the protected area and the interaction of protected and human-dominated areas, considering biological, social, and economic components.
To do this has required people from a wide range of disciplines to work together—ecologists, palaeontologists, economists, social scientists, mathematicians, and disease specialists—to name a few. Members have come from many different countries—Tanzania, Kenya, Holland, Germany, Sweden, France, Belgium, Italy, Britain, Canada, and the United States. This embodies the intent and spirit of the National Center for Ecosystem Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), at Santa Barbara, California, that has funded three workshops (2001–2003). Subsequently, the National Science Foundation (USA) has provided funds through a biocomplexity grant to continue the work and support a fourth workshop at Seronera, Serengeti National Park, in 2004. We thank Elizabeth Lyons for her help with funding. This book is the outcome of these meetings.
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