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Historical and recent land-use impacts on the vegetation of Bathurst, a municipal commonage in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

J R Puttick Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Zoology Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa; Plant Conservation Unit, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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M T Hoffman Plant Conservation Unit, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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J Gambiza Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
Pages 9-20 | Received 21 Jul 2010, Accepted 14 Dec 2010, Published online: 09 May 2011

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Doreen Atkinson & Mark Ingle. (2018) By their own bootstraps: municipal commonage farmers as an emerging agrarian class in the Karoo. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 35:3-4, pages 233-243.
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Jennifer M. Russell & David Ward. (2014) Remote sensing provides a progressive record of vegetation change in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, from 1944 to 2005. International Journal of Remote Sensing 35:3, pages 904-926.
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M. M. Stickler & C. M. Shackleton. (2014) Local Wood Demand, Land Cover Change and the State of Albany Thicket on an Urban Commonage in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Environmental Management 55:2, pages 411-422.
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Katalin Petz, Julia Glenday & Rob Alkemade. (2014) Land management implications for ecosystem services in a South African rangeland. Ecological Indicators 45, pages 692-703.
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Niels Dreber, Christiaan J. Harmse, Albie Götze, Winston S. W. Trollope & Klaus Kellner. (2014) Quantifying the woody component of savanna vegetation along a density gradient in the Kalahari Bushveld: a comparison of two adapted point-centered quarter methods. The Rangeland Journal 36:1, pages 91.
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R. Buitenwerf, W. J. Bond, N. Stevens & W. S. W. Trollope. (2011) Increased tree densities in S outh A frican savannas: >50 years of data suggests CO 2 as a driver . Global Change Biology 18:2, pages 675-684.
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