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- W2329139178 abstract "There was concerted effort, especially between the 1960s and 1990s, to increase the distribution of surface water in Kruger National Park (KNP). As a consequence, most of the park was within easy walking distance of a permanent water source for large, mobile herbivores during the peak of the water-for-game programme. This situation was unnatural and led to various unintended ecological effects. In reaction to this and in response to changing conservation and management paradigms, the water provision policy was revised in 1997. Since the policy change, about two-thirds of the more than 300 boreholes have been closed and many catchment dams have been breached in an ongoing process. This new approach towards water provision has a strong spatial focus and aims to recreate and mimic a more natural mosaic of spatio-temporal variability in surface water availability. KNP managers hope that the change in water provision will induce spatial and temporal variation in how elephants utilize landscapes, which is a key objective of the current KNP Elephant Management Plan. Although it seems unlikely that the reduced availability of water has had any numerical effects on the elephant population thus far, it did induce some spatial changes: elephants are now even more strongly attracted to the large river systems than before. More research is needed to ascertain whether surface water manipulation in KNP, where water is naturally relatively widely distributed, is effective in creating spatio-temporal refugia for biodiversity that are sensitive towards elephant impacts.L’on a vu des efforts concertes, surtout entre les annees 1960 et 1990, d’augmenter la distribution de l’eau de surface dans le Parc National Kruger (PNK). En consequence, la plus grande partie du parc se trouvait a une courte distance de marche d’une source d’eau permanente pour les grands herbivores mobiles lors du pic du programme de l’eau-pour-la-faune. Cette situation etait anormale et a conduit a divers effets ecologiques inattendus. En reaction a cela et en reponse a l’evolution des paradigmes de conservation et de gestion, la politique d’approvisionnement en eau a ete revisee en 1997. Depuis le changement de politique, environ deux tiers des plus de 300 forages ont ete fermes et de nombreux barrages de captage perces dans un processus continu. Cette nouvelle approche d’approvisionnement en eau a une forte concentration spatiale et vise a recreer et a imiter une mosaique plus naturelle de variabilite spatio-temporelle de la disponibilite en eau de surface. Les gestionnaires du PNK esperent que la variation de l’approvisionnement en eau va induire des variations spatiales et temporelles dans la facon dont les elephants utilisent les paysages, ce qui est un objectif cle du plan actuel de gestion des elephants du PNK. Bien qu’il semble peu probable que la disponibilite reduite de l’eau ait eu des effets numeriques sur la population des elephants a ce jour, elle a induit quelques changements spatiaux: les elephants sont encore plus fortement attires par les grands systemes fluviaux qu’auparavant. Il faut plus de recherche pour determiner si la manipulation des eaux de surface dans le PNK ou l’eau est assez largement distribue naturellement, est efficace dans la creation de refuges spatio-temporels de la biodiversite sensibles aux impacts des elephants." @default.
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- W2329139178 title "Systems approach towards surface water distribution in Kruger National Park, South Africa" @default.
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