Impacts of high utilisation pressure on biodiversity components in Colophospermum mopane savanna

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  2012

• Venue

  African Journal of Range & Forage Science

• Publication date

  2012-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2989/10220119.2012.687039
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