Thresholds of potential concern as benchmarks in the management of African savannahs

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2007-02-28

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2006.1988PMID 17255038PMCID PMC2311432
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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