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4 - Temporal Changes in the Large Herbivore Fauna of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park

from Part I - Setting the Scene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

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. 80 - 108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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