Ib Friis
Professor, emeritus
Research
Universitetsparken 15
2100 København Ø
- 2024
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Inga Hedberg (1927-2024) – inspirational driving force in tropical African botany for 60 years
Friis, Ib, Demissew, S. & Thulin, M., 19 Mar 2024, In: Webbia. 79(1), p. 3-18Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- 2023
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(2993) Proposal to reject the name Urtica fruticosa (Urticaceae)I
Friis, Ib, Wilmot-Dear, C. M. & Moore, A., 2023, In: Taxon. 72, 5, p. 1130 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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(3001) Proposal to conserve the name Jatropha pelargoniifolia against Adenoropium forskaolii (Euphorbiaceae)
Friis, Ib & Thulin, M., 2023, In: Taxon. 72, 6, p. 1373-1374Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Species diversity and vegetation structure of woody plants in regenerating Juniperus forest replacing Eucalyptus in the conservation area of Gullele Botanic Garden, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Atinafe, E., Weber, O., Friis, Ib & Seta, T., 2023, In: Webbia. 78, 2, p. 49-71Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Status, typification, and synonymy of some early names for South Asian and Oceanian plants proposed in Urtica or in other genera now in the Urticaceae
Friis, Ib, Wilmot-Dear, C. M. & Moore, A., 2023, In: Taxon. 72, 6, p. 1343-1352 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- 2022
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Plants and vegetation of NW Ethiopia: A new look at Rodolfo E.G. Pichi Sermolli’s results from the ‘Missione di Studio al Lago Tana’, 1937
Friis, Ib, Demissew, S., Weber, O. & van Breugel, P., 2022, Firenze: Firenze University Press. 360 p. (Studi e Saggi; No. 240).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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The Western Woodland of Ethiopia: A study of the woody vegetation and flora between the Ethiopian Highlands and the lowlands of the Nile Valley in the Sudan and South Sudan
Friis, Ib, van Breugel, P., Weber, O. & Demissew, S., 2022, Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. 521 p. (Scientia Danica. Series B, Biologica, Vol. 9).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
- 2021
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Beskrivelse af Guineiske Planter (1827): en dansk videnskabs- og publikationshistorie af international betydning
Friis, Ib, 2021, Nogle betænkninger om dansk sprog og litteratur - Festskrift til Marita Akhøj Nielsen. Bjerring-Hansen, J., Boeck, S. S. & Jensen, E. S. (eds.). Universitets-Jubilæets danske Samfund, p. 157-192 (Universitets-Jubilæets Danske Samfunds skriftserie, Vol. 604).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Combination of Sanger and target-enrichment markers supports revised generic delimitation in the problematic ‘Urera clade’ of the nettle family (Urticaceae)
Wells, T., Maurin, O., Dodsworth, S., Friis, Ib, Cowan, R., Epitawalage, N., Brewer, G., Forest, F., Baker, W. J. & Monro, A. K., 2021, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 158, 15 p., 107008.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Diversity and endemism of the flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea: state of knowledge and future perspectives
Demissew, S., Friis, Ib & Weber, O., 2021, In: Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali. 32, 4, p. 675-697 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Isert and Thonning's plants and Schumacher's Beskrivelse af Guineiske Planter (1827) - A Danish legacy to the study of the West African flora
Friis, Ib & Callmander, M. W., 2021, In: Candollea. 76, 2, p. 171-190Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Paraphyly of the genus Boehmeria (Urticaceae): a response to Liang et al. ‘Relationships among Chinese Boehmeria species and the evolution of various clade’
Monro, A. K., Dodsworth, S., Fu, L., Friis, Ib, Wilmot-Dear, C. M. & Maurin, O., 2021, In: Plant Systematics and Evolution. 307, p. 1-3 3 p., 1.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- 2020
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Euphorbia venefica Trémaux ex Kotschy (Euphorbiaceae) and other shrub-like cylindrically stemmed Euphorbia with spirally arranged single spines
Weber, O., Atinafe, E., Awas, T. & Friis, Ib, 2020, In: Societe des Naturalistes Luxembourgeois. Bulletin. 122, p. 57-82Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Terminalia (Combretaceae) in northern tropical Africa: Priority and typification of T. schimperiana and T. glaucescens; typification of other synonyms of T. schimperiana and of T. avicennioides
Friis, Ib & Demissew, S., 2020, In: Taxon. 69, 2, p. 372-380Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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»Oeders Troldurt« & »Kongescepter«
Friis, Ib, 2020, Forskningens skønhed Et festskrift til Hendes Majestæt Dronning Margrethe II ved 80-års-fødselsdagen den 16. april 2020.: A festschrift to Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II on the occasion of her 80th birthday 16 4 2020.. Nielsen, M. A. (ed.). Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, p. 12-15Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
- 2019
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Paleoenvironmental reconstructions for the Horn of Africa: Interdisciplinary perspectives on strategy and significance
Hildebrand, E. A., Brandt, S. A., Friis, Ib & Demissew, S., 28 Oct 2019, Trees, Grasses and Crops. People and Plants in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond. Eichhorn, B. & Höhn, A. (eds.). Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn, Germany, p. 187-210 (Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften/Frankfurt Archaeological Studies, Vol. 37).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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G.C. Oeder's conflict with Linnaeus and the implementation of taxonomic and nomenclatural ideas in the monumantal Flora Danica project
Friis, Ib, 27 Sep 2019, In: Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore. 71, (Supplement 2, p. 53-85Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Cenni monografici sul paese dei Gherire (Mogadiscio, 1938) – a pioneer work on the Gerire Hills in western Ogaden, south-eastern Ethiopia : – introduced, translated and provided with annotations and a revision of the botanical collections
Friis, Ib, 30 Apr 2019, In: Webbia. 74 (supplement), p. 1-108Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Gerire Hills, SE Ethiopia: ecology and phytogeographical position of an additional local endemic, Anacampseros specksii (Anacampserotaceae)
Friis, Ib, Gilbert, M. G., Weber, O., van Breugel, P. & Demissew, S., 2019, In: Webbia. 74, 2, p. 185-192Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- 2018
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Review of the History, Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Ensete and the Objectives and Expectations of the International Workshop on Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheeseman
Demissew, S. & Friis, Ib, 31 Dec 2018, In: Ethiopian Journal of Biological Sciences. 17 (Supplementum), p. 1-23Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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A new species of Leucas, L. gypsicola (Lamiaceae), from gypsum outcrops in eastern Ethiopia
Paton, A., Friis, Ib & Demissew, S., 1 Dec 2018, In: Kew Bulletin. 73, 4, 6 p., 59.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Wildpflanzen
Friis, Ib, 1 Nov 2018, Äthiopien: Geschichte, Kultur, Herausforderungen. Uhlig, S., Appleyard, D., Bausi, A., Hahn, W. & Kaplan, S. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 31-35Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
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Äthiopische Ökozonen
Friis, Ib, 1 Nov 2018, Äthiopien: Geschicte, Kultur, Herausforderungen. Uhlig, S., Appleyard, D., Bausi, A., Hahn, W. & Kaplan, S. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 27-28Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
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Intermediate evergreen Afromontane forest (IAF) in northwestern Ethiopia: observations, description and modelling its potential distribution
Berhanu, A., Demissew, S., Woldu, Z., Friis, Ib & Van Breugel, P., 19 Oct 2018, In: Phytocoenologia. 48, 4, p. 351-367Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Gerire Hills, a SE Ethiopian outpost of the transitional semi-evergreen bushland: vegetation, endemism and three new species, Croton elkerensis (Euphorbiaceae), Gnidia elkerensis (Thymelaeaceae), and Plectranthus spananthus (Lamiaceae)
Friis, Ib, Gilbert, M. G., Paton, A. J., Weber, O., van Breugel, P. & Demissew, S., 3 Jul 2018, In: Webbia. 72, 2, p. 203-223Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The East African Flora, and those who study it, have lost a great friend, Kew botanist Sally Bidgood: 13 April 1948–18 March 2018
Friis, Ib, 2018, In: Journal of East Africa Natural History. 107, 1, p. 31-36 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication
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The Rolf and Gertrud Dahlgren Prize for 2017 Awarded to Hans Walter Lack
Friis, Ib, 2018, In: Taxon. 67, 1, p. 231 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication
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URTICACEAE Jus. (1789, 'Urticeae'), nom. cons.
Friis, Ib, 2018, Flore du Gabon - Oleaceae, Podostemaceae, Urticaceae. Sosef, M. S. M., Florence, J., Banak, L. N., Bourobou, H. P. B. & Bissiengou, P. (eds.). Leiden: Markgraf Publishers, Weikensheim; Backhuys Publishers, Leiden., Vol. 51. p. 47-87 41 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- 2017
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Den biologiske faggruppe [i Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab]
Friis, Ib & Wang, T., 13 Nov 2017, Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 1742-2017: et Jubilæumsskrift. Nielsen, M. A. (ed.). København: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, p. 153-179 27 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
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The lectotypification of two names referred by Linnaeus to the genus Illecebrum (Caryophyllales): Illecebrum benghalense and Iresine javanica, with comments on Aerva tomentosa
Iamonico, D. & Friis, Ib, Oct 2017, In: Taxon. 66, 5, p. 1208-1212 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Introduction
Balslev, H. & Friis, Ib, 28 Sep 2017, Tropical Plant Collections: Legacies from the Past? Essential Tools for the Future? : Proceedings of an international symposium held by The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen, 19th–21st of May, 2015. Friis, I. & Balslev, H. (eds.). Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Vol. Scientia Danica B, Vol. 6. p. 7-13 (Scientia Danica. Series B, Biologica, Vol. 6).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Kalanchoe hypseloleuce (Crassulaceae), a new species from eastern Ethiopia, with notes on its habitat
Friis, Ib, Gilbert, M. G., van Breugel, P., Weber, O. & Demissew, S., Jun 2017, In: Kew Bulletin. 72, 11 p., 30.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The flora of woody plants and vegetation on the Horn of Africa
Friis, Ib, 3 Jan 2017Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
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Salsola sp. A of Flora Zambesiaca from the coast of Mozambique is Caroxylon littoralis (Amaranthaceae subfam. Salsoloideae), hitherto only known from Madagascar
Friis, Ib & Holt, S., 2017, In: Webbia. 72, 1, p. 63-69 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Ethiopian Biomes
Friis, Ib, 2017, Ethiopia: History, Culture and Challenges. Uhlig, S., Appleyard, D., Bausi, A., Hahn, W. & Kaplan, S. (eds.). Berlin: LIT Verlag, p. 25 1 p. (Afrikanische Studien/African Studies, Vol. 58).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
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Michaelis' hundred Questions and the Royal Instructions: - The Research Programme of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia
Friis, Ib, 2017, Arrivals: The Life of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia 1767-2017. Hansen, A. H. (ed.). 1 ed. Copenhagen: Vandkunsten, p. 93-116 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
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Michaelis' hundrede spørgsmål og Den Kongelige Instruks: - Hvad var Den Arabiske Rejses Forskningsprogram?
Friis, Ib, 2017, Hjembragt 1767-2017. : 250 år efter Carsten Niebuhrs Arabiske Rejse. Hansen, A. H. (ed.). 1 ed. København: Vandkunsten, p. 93-116 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
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Old tropical botanical collections: how to improve their availability, comprehensibility and use in modern taxonomy?
Friis, Ib, 2017, In: Webbia. 72, 1, p. 5-16 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Sub-Saharan Botanical Collections: Taxonomic research and impediments
Demissew, S., Beentje, H., Cheek, M. & Friis, Ib, 2017, Tropical Plant Collections: Legacies from the Past? Essential Tools for the Future?: Proceedings of an international symposium held by The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen, 19th–21st of May, 2015. Friis, I. & Balslev, H. (eds.). Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Vol. Scientia Danica, Series B, Biologica, Vol. 6. p. 97-115 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Temperate and Tropical Plant Collections: The changing species concept and other ideas behind their development
Friis, Ib, 2017, Tropical Plant Collections: Legacies from the Past? Essential Tools for the Future?: Proceedings of an international symposium held by The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen, 19th–21st of May, 2015. Friis, I. & Balslev, H. (eds.). København: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Vol. Scientia Danica B, vol. 6. p. 15-38 24 p. (Scientia Danica. Series B, Biologica, Vol. 6).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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The biology subject group [in The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters]
Friis, Ib & Wang, T., 2017, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1742-2017: A jubilee Celebratory Publication. Nielsen, M. A. (ed.). Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, p. 153-179 27 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
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Tropical Plant Collections: Legacies from the past? Essential tools for the future?
Friis, Ib (ed.) & Balslev, H. (ed.), 2017, Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. 320 p. (Scientia Danica. Series B, Biologica, Vol. 6).Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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[Ethiopian] Wild Flora
Friis, Ib, 2017, Ethiopia: History, Culture and Challenges. Uhlig, S., Appleyard, D., Bausi, A., Hahn, W. & Kaplan, S. (eds.). LIT Verlag, p. 25-29 5 p. (Afrikanische Studien/African Studies, Vol. 58).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
- 2016
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The endangered Ethiopian endemic Crotalaria trifoliolata (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) and its little-known habitat
Friis, Ib, Weber, O., van Breugel, P. & Demissew, S., 1 Sep 2016, Contributions to Botany.: Dedicated to Inga Hedberg.. Lidén, M. & D. M. (eds.). Uppsala: Uppsala University, p. 19-39 (Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses, Vol. 38).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Conservation of the Ethiopian church forests: threats, opportunities and implications for their management
Aerts, R., Ortveld, K. V., November, E., Wassie, A., Abiyu, A., Demissew, S., Daye, D. D., Giday, K., Haile, M., Tewolde Berhan, S., Teketay, D., Teklehaimanot, Z., Bingelli, P., Deckers, J., Friis, I., Gratzer, G., Hermy, M., Heyn, M., Honnay, O., Paris, M. & 4 others, , 2016, In: Science of the Total Environment. 551-552, p. 404-414 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Current and future fire regimes and their influence on natural vegetation in Ethiopia
van Breugel, P., Friis, Ib, Demissew, S., Lillesø, Jens-Peter Barnekow & Kindt, R., 2016, In: Ecosystems. 19, 2, p. 369-386 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Det aksumitiske riges hovedby - Aksum (1906)
Friis, Ib, 2016, 50 fund - Højdepunkter i arkæologien. Nørskov, V. & Pentz, P. (eds.). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 120-125 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
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Plant diversity and regeneration in a disturbed isolated dry Afromontane forest in northern Ethiopia
Aynekulu, E., Aerts, R., Denich, M., Nigussie, A., Friis, Ib, Sebsebe, D. & Boehmer, H. J., 2016, In: Folia Geobotanica. 51, 2, p. 115-127 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The transitional semi-evergreen bushland in Ethiopia: Characterization and mapping its distribution using predictive modelling
van Breugel, P., Friis, Ib & Sebsebe, D., 2016, In: Applied Vegetation Science. 19, 2, p. 355-367 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Two distinctive new species of Commicarpus (Nyctaginaceae) from gypsum outcrops in eastern Ethiopia.
Friis, Ib, Gilbert, M. G., Weber, O. & Demissew, S., 2016, In: Kew Bulletin. 71, 19 p., 34.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Potential natural vegetation of Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia). Volume 5: Description and tree species composition for other potential natural vegetation types (vegetation types other than forests, woodlands, wooded grasslands, bushlands and thickets)
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