Love your wet grass! Dry season grazing reserves show highest grass regrowth in communal semi-arid rangelands of Tanzania

• Sabine A. Baumgartner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sabine A. Baumgartner, Anna C. Treydte

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

  Affiliation Department of Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems (490f), Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4640-9843

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• Stuart W. Smith ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SWS, GSB and OL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Ecological Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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• Gundula S. Bartzke ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SWS, GSB and OL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Crop Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Oloshiro Laizar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration

  ¶‡ SWS, GSB and OL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Grazing Committee, Village of Loibor Siret, Tanzania

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• Jane F. Ploechl,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto Oikos, Arusha, Tanzania

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• Lena M. Michler,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems (490f), Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8031-7491

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• Elizabeth M. Naro,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African People & Wildlife Fund, Bernardsville, NJ, United States of America

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• Anna C. Treydte

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sabine A. Baumgartner, Anna C. Treydte

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anna.treydte@natgeo.su.se

  Affiliations Department of Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems (490f), Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0605-3069

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