Graham I H Kerley

Biographic Data

ID1573390
NAMEGraham I H Kerley
GIVEN NAMESGraham I H
FAMILY NAMEKerley
SIGNATUREKERLEY G I H
AFFILIATIONSNelson Mandela University
ORCID0000-0003-2702-5200
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Perceptions and expectations for the persistence of elephants in Knysna, South Africa

    Open AccessLizette Moolman, Graham I H Kerley et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2026

    Successful species conservation requires balancing ecological feasibility with social acceptability, especially when reintroducing large species that interact with humans. Stakeholder values, beliefs, and perceptions are critical in shaping support for conservation initiatives and, ultimately, their long-term success. Using the functionally extinct Knysna elephant population in South Africa as a case study, we examine how stakeholders conceptuali…

  • Megagrazer loss drives complex landscape-scale biophysical cascades

    Open AccessOlli Hyvärinen, Mariska te Beest et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Wild animals can modulate ecosystem-climate feedbacks, e.g. through impacts on vegetation and associated carbon dynamics. However, vegetation cover and composition also affect land surface albedo, which is an important component of the global energy budget. We currently know very little about the influence of wild animals on land surface albedo and the resulting climate forcing of these albedo changes. Leveraging a unique, ecosystem-scale, semi-e…

  • Grassland albedo as a nature-based climate prospect

    Open AccessSteven McGregor, Joris P G M Cromsigt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Nature-based solutions for mitigating climate change focus largely on land management to reduce carbon emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. Tree planting, commonly advocated for carbon offset, threatens grassland biodiversity and may induce positive radiative forcing (warming) by lowering albedo. Before making decisions about land-use changes in grasslands, an understanding of the fine-scale albedo of grassy versus woody vegetation is need…

  • Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity

    Open AccessLavhelesani D Simba, Mariska te Beest et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2024Cited by: 1References: 102

    Rangelands face threats from climate and land-use change, including inappropriate climate change mitigation initiatives such as tree planting in grassy ecosystems. The marginalization and impoverishment of rangeland communities and their indigenous knowledge systems, and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, are additional major challenges. To address these issues, we propose the wilder rangelands integrated framework, co-developed by …

  • Predators on private land

    Open AccessHayley S Clements, Graeme S Cummings et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2016Cited by: 2

    Clements, H. S., G. S. Cumming, and G. I. H. Kerley. 2016. Predators on private land: broad-scale socioeconomic interactions influence large predator management. Ecology and Society 21(2):45.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08607-210245

  • Why Namibian Farmers Are Satisfied With the Performance of Their Livestock Guarding Dogs

    Gail C Potgieter, Laurie Marker et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2013

    The success of livestock guarding dogs (LGDs) in mitigating farmer–predator conflict relies on the perceptions of farmers that use them. Purebred LGDs are provided to Namibian farmers by the Cheetah Conservation Fund as a farmer–predator conflict mitigation measure. We examined the perceptions of farmers using 164 of these LGDs by analyzing data collected during face-to-face interviews from 2000–2010. Although most respondents reported reduced li…