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1 Livestock densities are expressed in Livestock equivalents (LE) or Tropical livestock units (TLU) per unit area. Exact definitions vary. In the context of these studies, one LE or TLU = 250 kg weight. Adult Maasai cow = 0.71; adult sheep/goat = 0.17 TLU or LE. See, for example,. ILCA (1981) and Sellen (2003).
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2 In the case of this book, abridged versions were produced and the families revisited in 2007 to seek their consent for these versions to be published as they appear in the book.
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3 In Amboseli and Longido, cropping was differentiated as lowland or highland, whereas in the other sites only one cropping variable was defined.
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4 Adult equivalents are a system for expressing a group of people in terms of standard reference adult units, with respect to food or metabolic requirements. A reference adult is taken as an adult male: other categories are a fraction of that adult equivalent: Adult male = 1AE; adult female = 0.9AE; M/F 10–14 years = 0.9AE; M/F/5–9 years = 0.6AE; infant/child 2–4 years = 0.52AE (Homewood and Rogers, 1991; Sellen, 2003).
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5 In Mara and Longido, this analysis was limited to examining factors influencing gross annual income according to available data.
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6When a variogram is extrapolated back to zero distance, it may not approach zero variance. The amount by which the variance differs from zero (the constant) is known as the nugget effect. This term derives from mining geostatistics where nuggets literally exist. A pure nugget effect corresponds to the total absence of auto-correlation.
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Serneels, S. et al. (2009). Methods in the Analysis of Maasai Livelihoods. In: Homewood, K., Kristjanson, P., Trench, P.C. (eds) Staying Maasai?. Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87492-0_2
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