Our publications, reports, and presentation are shown below. Some of the documents produced by the IMAS are available over the World Wide Web, by following the link below left. Data and software produced or distributed by the IMAS are also available by following the link to the right.

Refereed Publications

In print:

Thornton, P.K. and P.G. Jones. In press. A conceptual approach to dynamic agricultural land-use modelling. Agricultural Systems.

In preparation or review:

Boone, R.B., K.A. Galvin, N.M. Smith, and S.J. Lynn. In review. Generalizing El Niño effects upon Maasai livestock using hierarchical clusters of vegetation patterns. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.

Galvin, K.A., R.B. Boone, N.M. Smith, and S.J. Lynn. In review. Impacts of climate variability on East African pastoralists: linking social science and remote sensing. Climate Research.

Galvin, K.A., J. Ellis, R.B. Boone, A. Magennis, N.M. Smith, and S.J. Lynn. In review. Compatability of pastoralism and conservation? A test case using integrated assessment in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. Summitted to the Conference on Displacement, Forced Settlement, and Conservation. Saint Anne's College, University of Oxford, September 1999.

Howe, R., R. Boone, J. DeMartini, T. McCabe, and M. Coughenour. In prep. A spatially integrated disease risk assessment model for wildlife/livestock interactions in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area of Tanzania.

Reports

CSU-GLCRSP. 1999. Integrated modeling, assessment, and management of regional wildlife-livestock ecosystems in East Africa. Report of the Workshop held at the International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, July 6-8 and funded by the Regional Economic Development Services Office for East and Southern Africa, US Agency for International Development.

Abstracts and Presentations

Boone, R.B., M.B. Coughenour, J.E. Ellis, and K.A. Galvin. 1999. Addressing management question for Ngorongoro Conservation Area using the Savanna Modeling System. Presentations at the workshop entitled "Integrated Modeling, Assessment, and Management of Regional Wildlife-livestock ecosystems in East Africa" Nairobi, Kenya. July 6-8.

Boone, R.B., M.B. Coughenour, J.E. Ellis, and K.A. Galvin. 1999. Addressing management question for Ngorongoro Conservation Area using the Savanna Modeling System. A component of a series of demonstrations of the IMAS project. Arusha, Ngorongoro, Dar es Salaam, and Morogoro, Tanzania. July 10-17.

Boone, R.B., M.B. Coughenour, J.E. Ellis, and K.A. Galvin. 1999. Addressing management question for Ngorongoro Conservation Area using the Savanna Modeling System. Kenya Wildlife Service, Nairobi, Kenya. July 21.

Boone, R.B., and K.A. Galvin. 1999. Using hierarchical greenness patterns to quantify the effects of El Nino on the Maasai of the Serengeti Ecosystem. Poster presentation at the Landscape Ecology World Congress, Snowmass Village, Colorado, July.

Coughenour, M.B., J. Ellis, K. Galvin, and R. Reid. 1998. Integrated modeling and assessment for balancing pastoral food security, wildlife conservation, and ecosystem integrity in East Africa. Abstract accepted by International Rangelands Congress.

Galvin, K.A. 1998. Compatibility of pastoralism and conservation? How to assess management strategies in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. Paper presented at the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Williamsburg, VA, USA. July.

Galvin, K.A., M.B. Coughenour, and J.E. Ellis. 1998. Ecology and economy of pastoral nutrition. A test case using integrated assessment in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. Poster presented at Heifer Project International. 1998 Symposium on Human Nutrition and Livestock. October.

Galvin, K.A. 1998. Issues of sustainability of pastoralism in East Africa. Talk presented at the International Connections Seminar Series, Colorado State University, CO, USA. October.

Galvin, K.A., R.B. Boone, N.M. Smith, and S.J. Lynn. 1999. Impacts of climate variability on East African pastoralists: linking social science and remote sensing. Invited presentation given at the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tucson, Arizona. April.

Ellis, START/NAFCOM/CARPE Workshop of Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) in West and Central Africa. Accra, Ghana, November 3-5, 1997. Presented keynote lecture entitled "Exploring the science-policy interface: assessing and affecting land use and land cover change."

Ellis, J. 1998. Invited address: Pastoral ecosystem: human-ecosystem linkages. At the NREL 30th Anniversary Symposium. October.

Ellis, J., R. Reid, P. Thorton, and R. Kruska. Population growth and land use change among pastoral people: local processes and continental patterns. Abstract accepted by the International Rangelands Congress.

Reid, R.S., R.L. Kruska, C.J. Wilson, and P.K. Thornton. 1998. Conservation crises of the 21st century: tension zones among wildlife, people, and livestock across Africa in 2040. Paper presented at the International Congress of Ecology, Florence, Italy, 19-26 July.

Reid, R.S., R.L. Kruska, C.J. Wilson, and P.K. Thornton. 1998. Conservation crises of the 21st century: tension zones among wildlife, people, and livestock across Africa in 2040. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland, 2-6 August.