Dedication. Foreword. List of contributors. Acknowledgements.- Part I. Introduction and Framework. 1. Global significance of extensive grazing lands and pastoral societies: an introduction R.S. Reid, et al. 2. Fragmentation of arid and semi-arid ecosystems: implications for people and animals N.T. Hobbs et al. 3. Causes and consequences of herbivore movement in landscape ecosystems M.B. Coughenour.- Part II. Case Studies. a. Australia. 4. Changing patterns of land use and tenure in the Dalrymple Shire, Australia C.J. Stokes et al.- b. North America. 5. From fragmentation to reaggregation of rangelands in the Northern Great Plains, USA J.M. Lackett, K.A. Galvin. 6. Land use, fragmentation, and impacts on wildlife in Jackson Valley, Wyoming, USA J.M. Lackett, N.T. Hobbs.- c. Asia. 7. Ideology, land tenure and livestock mobility in Kazakhstan I.I. Alimaev, R.H. Behnke, Jr. 8. Policy changes in Mongolia: implications for land use and landscapes D. Ojima, T. Chuluun.- d. Africa. 9. Fragmentation of a peri-urban savanna, Athi-Kaputiei Plains, Kenya R.S. Reid et al. 10. Processes of fragmentation in the Amboseli ecosystem, southern Kajiado District, Kenya S.B. BurnSilver, J. Worden. 11. Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania: fragmentation of a unique region of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem K.A. Galvin et al. 12. North-West Province, South Africa: communal and commercial livestock systems in transition K.A. Galvin et al.- Part III. Issues of Fragmentation and Complexity: A Synthetic Perspective. 13. The drivers of fragmentation in arid and semi-arid landscapes R.H. Behnke. 14. Comparing landscape and infrastructural heterogeneity within and between ecosystems R.B. Boone et al. 15. Responses of pastoralists to land fragmentation: social capital, connectivity and resilience K.A. Galvin.- Index.