Climatic buffering and anthropogenic degradation of a Mediterranean-type shrubland refugium at its semi-arid boundary, South Africa

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  The Holocene

• Publication date

  2018-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1177/0959683617735582
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