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Unsustainable fuelwood extraction from South African savannas

Wood and charcoal supply the majority of sub-Saharan Africa’s rural energy needs. The long-term supply of fuelwood is in jeopardy given high consumption rates. Using airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR), we mapped and investigated savanna aboveground biomass across contrasting land uses, ran...

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Main Authors: K J Wessels, M S Colgan, B F N Erasmus, G P Asner, W C Twine, R Mathieu, J A N van Aardt, J T Fisher, I P J Smit
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
fuelwood
communal land
LiDAR
biomass
savannas
supply–demand
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014007
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