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Research Articles

Understanding the influence of land cover change and landscape pattern change on evapotranspiration variations in Gwayi catchment of Zimbabwe

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Pages 10016-10032 | Received 26 May 2021, Accepted 17 Jan 2022, Published online: 07 Feb 2022

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