Large-scale impacts of herbivores on the structural diversity of African savannas

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

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

• Publication date

  2009-03-24

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0810637106PMID 19258457PMCID PMC2650504
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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