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dcterms:title "Physiological, morphological and functional traits of encroaching and non-encroaching savanna trees under contrasting CO2 concentrations, water stress, and grass competition, South Africa, 2022" ;
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dcterms:bibliographicCitation "Ripley, B., Simpson, K., Raubenheimer, S., Singini, E., Jones, E., Burgess, T., Carkeek, R., Cramer, M., Dixon, R., Field, K., Hawkins, H., Nell, R., Ngqiyaza, N., Pallett, N., Reynolds, L., Telford, E., Vetter, S., Lehmann, C., Osborne, C. (2026). Physiological, morphological and functional traits of encroaching and non-encroaching savanna trees under contrasting CO2 concentrations, water stress, and grass competition, South Africa, 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f7b8e72f-9bbe-4a03-8140-fada73e95b8c" ;
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