The historical ecology of Namibian rangelands: vegetation change since 1876 in response to local and global drivers.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Science of the Total Environment

• Publication date

  2012-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.10.067PMID 22188617
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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