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2 - The Abiotic Template for the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park's Landscape Heterogeneity

from Part I - Setting the Scene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

By
Ruth A. Howison ,
Han Olff ,
Norman Owen-Smith ,
Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt  and
Sally Archibald
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
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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