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9 - Contributions of Smaller Fauna to Ecological Processes and Biodiversity

from Part II - Theoretical Advances in Savanna Ecology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

By
Norman Owen-Smith ,
Cleo M. Gosling ,
Nicole Hagenah ,
Marcus J. Byrne  and
Catherine L. Parr
Edited by
Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt ,
Sally Archibald  and
Norman Owen-Smith
Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt
Affiliation:
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sally Archibald
Affiliation:
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Norman Owen-Smith
Affiliation:
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene
The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story
 , pp. 211 - 232
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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