Network to understand the changing socio-ecology of the southern African woodlands (SEOSAW) : challenges, benefits, and methods

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2020-10-05

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John Wiley & Sons

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Findings from the Socio-Ecological Observatory for the Southern African Woodlands (SEOSAW) will underpin the sustainability of two of the largest industries on the continent: wood fuels and timber. The article describes a new network of researchers’ (SEOSAW) work in long-term, in situ, measurements that will characterize the changing socio-ecology of the woodlands of southern Africa. These woodlands encompass the largest savanna in the world, hugely important to rural and urban livelihoods, but chronically under-studied. A new development is the use of data from permanent sample plots (PSP) in Bayesian model-data fusion analyses of ecosystem carbon cycles. The article includes an extensive bibliography.

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WOOD, FORESTS, FOREST MANAGEMENT, FUELWOOD, TIMBER, RURAL ECONOMY, SAVANNAS, SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, SOUTH OF SAHARA

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