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In this paper the term savanna refers to a vegetation formation and will include all vegetation types that are described as either bushveld, thornveld, lowveld, woodland or scrub. Booysen (1967) proposed a definition of bushveld in South Africa which will be used here to define savanna: “savanna is veld in which the dominants are trees and tall shrubs and in which most of the grazeable material is provided by grasses and/or dwarf shrubs which dominate the field layer.”
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Trollope, W.S.W. (1982). Ecological Effects of Fire in South African Savannas. In: Huntley, B.J., Walker, B.H. (eds) Ecology of Tropical Savannas. Ecological Studies, vol 42. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68786-0_14
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