Increasing densities of Leucosidea sericea have minimal effects on grazing capacity and soil characteristics of a high-altitude communal rangeland at Vuvu, South Africa

• Nandipha Gloria Ndamane,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa

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• Manqhai Kraai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Agricultural Sciences, School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, South Africa

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• Ntuthuko Raphael Mkhize,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa

  Affiliation Agricultural Research Council, Animal Production, Range and Forage Sciences, Irene, South Africa

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• Tlou Julius Tjelele,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Agricultural Research Council, Animal Production, Range and Forage Sciences, Irene, South Africa

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• Zivanai Tsvuura

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Tsvuuraz@ukzn.ac.za

  Affiliation Centre for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1852-4737

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