Long-term changes in Serengeti-Mara wildebeest and land cover: Pastoralism, population, or policies?

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2001-10-23

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.221053998PMID 11675492PMCID PMC60090
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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