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Biome Change in Southern Africa
Biomes are regional to global vegetation formations characterised by their structure and functioning. These formations are thus valuable for both...
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Climate change impacts on agricultural trade and food security in emerging economies: case of Southern Africa
Climate change has been a significant threat to sustainable agriculture impacting trade and food security. This research investigates the impacts of...
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Changes in How Climate Forces the Vegetation of Southern Africa
Global climatic changes are altering ecosystem structure and functioning, yet detecting and forecasting such change is difficult. In this study, we...
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Southern Africa Climate Over the Recent Decades: Description, Variability and Trends
South of 15°S, southern Africa has a subtropical climate, which is affected by temperate and tropical weather systems and comes under the influence...
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Hitching a ride: the early history of black rat immigration into southern Africa
Black rats are amongst the most studied mammals in the world due to both their broad distribution and their destructive association with humans. An...
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Reports of Pennellidae Burmeister, 1835 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) post metamorphosed females off the coast of southern Africa
Seven species belonging to Pennellidae are reported from marine teleosts caught off southern Africa. Additionally, complete re-descriptions are...
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Male-biased migration from East Africa introduced pastoralism into southern Africa
BackgroundHunter-gatherer lifestyles dominated the southern African landscape up to ~ 2000 years ago, when herding and farming groups started to...
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Euphorbia in Southern Africa Volume 2
This book presents a new account of Euphorbia in southern Africa. Euphorbiais the second largest genus of plants in the world. Southern Africa...
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Euphorbia in Southern Africa Volume 1
This book presents a new account of Euphorbia in southern Africa. Euphorbiais the second largest genus of plants in the world. Southern Africa...
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Euphorbia in Southern Africa
This volume set presents a new account of Euphorbia in southern Africa. Euphorbiais the second largest genus of plants in the world. Southern Africa...
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The Mangrove Forest of Quirimbas National Park Reveals High Carbon Stock Than Previously Estimated in Southern Africa
Mangrove forests are known to store large amounts of carbon and provide several essential ecosystem services. Although mangrove forests vary across...
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Oral microbiome homogeneity across diverse human groups from southern Africa: first results from southwestern Angola and Zimbabwe
BackgroundWhile the human oral microbiome is known to play an important role in systemic health, its average composition and diversity patterns are...
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Projections of Future Climate Change in Southern Africa and the Potential for Regional Tip** Points
Southern Africa is a climate change hotspot with projected warming and drying trends amplifying stresses in a naturally warm, dry and water-stressed...
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Opportunities for Delivering Sectoral Climate-Smart Livestock Interventions in Southern Africa
The rising human population and demand for animal-sourced foods in develo** countries of Southern Africa is driving growth and transformation in...
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Synthesis and Outlook on Future Research and Scientific Education in Southern Africa
The sustainability of southern Africa’s natural and managed marine and terrestrial ecosystems is threatened by overuse, mismanagement, population...
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Geospatial characteristics of fire occurrences in southern hemispheric Africa and Madagascar during 2001–2020
For this study of long-term spatial patterns and trends of active fires in southern hemispheric Africa and on Madagascar from 2001 to 2020, active...
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Regional Land–Atmosphere Interactions in Southern Africa: Potential Impact and Sensitivity of Forest and Plantation Change
Southern Africa is experiencing increasing land transformation and natural vegetation losses. Deforestation is one type of this land degradation...
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Coastal Forest in Eastern Southern Africa has Savanna Bush-clump Origins
The extensive coastal forests in eastern southern Africa persist as a putative alternative stable state in an open ecosystem mosaic that includes...
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Environmental Challenges to Meeting Sustainable Development Goals in Southern Africa
There is an inextricable link between ecosystem integrity and the potential for achieving sustainable development goals (SDG). This chapter...
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Catchment and Depositional Studies for the Reconstruction of Past Environmental Change in Southern Africa
Terrestrial signals in marine sedimentary archives are often used for reconstructing past environments, vegetation and climate, as well as for...