A biome-wide experiment to assess the effects of propagule size and treatment on the survival of Portulacaria afra (spekboom) truncheons planted to restore degraded subtropical thicket of South Africa

• Marius L. van der Vyver ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marius L. van der Vyver, Richard M. Cowling

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mariusvdv@gmail.com

  Affiliation Botany Department, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5902-8575

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• Anthony J. Mills,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Soil Science, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, Western Cape, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5676-2440

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• Richard M. Cowling

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marius L. van der Vyver, Richard M. Cowling

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Botany Department, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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