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Developing wetland inventories in southern Africa: A review

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The status of wetland inventory effort and availability of maps and other data sources is reviewed for the ten countries of southern Africa: Angola, Bostwana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The aims and strategies for inventory are discussed and the main survey methods compared. Prior to commissioning new inventory work careful collation of existing maps and imagery is recommended together with targeting of strategic inventory at Province level, reserving high resolution effort only for certain important sites.

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Taylor, A.R.D., Howard, G.W. & Begg, G.W. Developing wetland inventories in southern Africa: A review. Vegetatio 118, 57–79 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00045191

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