Climate change effects on desert ecosystems: A case study on the keystone species of the Namib Desert Welwitschia mirabilis

• Pierluigi Bombi ,

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

  * E-mail: pierluigi.bombi@cnr.it

  Affiliation Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council, Monterotondo, Rome, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7322-5724

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• Daniele Salvi,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Coppito, L’Aquila, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3804-2690

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• Titus Shuuya,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gobabeb Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia

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• Leonardo Vignoli,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council, Monterotondo, Rome, Italy, Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

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• Theo Wassenaar

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia

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