Biomass Increases Go under Cover: Woody Vegetation Dynamics in South African Rangelands

• Penelope J. Mograbi ,

  * E-mail: penny.mograbi@gmail.com

  Affiliations Restoration and Conservation Biology Research Group, School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for African Ecology, School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Barend F. N. Erasmus ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Barend F. N. Erasmus, E. T. F. Witkowski, Gregory P. Asner, Konrad J. Wessels, Renaud Mathieu

  Affiliation Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• E. T. F. Witkowski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Barend F. N. Erasmus, E. T. F. Witkowski, Gregory P. Asner, Konrad J. Wessels, Renaud Mathieu

  Affiliation Restoration and Conservation Biology Research Group, School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Gregory P. Asner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Barend F. N. Erasmus, E. T. F. Witkowski, Gregory P. Asner, Konrad J. Wessels, Renaud Mathieu

  Affiliation Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States of America

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• Konrad J. Wessels ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Barend F. N. Erasmus, E. T. F. Witkowski, Gregory P. Asner, Konrad J. Wessels, Renaud Mathieu

  Affiliations Remote Sensing Research Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Meraka Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, University of Pretoria, Department of Geography, Geomatics, and Meteorology, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Renaud Mathieu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Barend F. N. Erasmus, E. T. F. Witkowski, Gregory P. Asner, Konrad J. Wessels, Renaud Mathieu

  Affiliations Ecosystems Earth Observations, Natural Resources & Environment, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa, University of Pretoria, Department of Geography, Geomatics, and Meteorology, Pretoria, South Africa

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• David E. Knapp ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States of America

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• Roberta E. Martin ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States of America

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• Russell Main

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Ecosystems Earth Observations, Natural Resources & Environment, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa

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