The use of herders’ accounts to map livestock activities across agropastoral landscapes in Semi-Arid Africa

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Landscape Ecology

• Publication date

  2002-07-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1023/A:1021238208019
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