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List of works by Robert J. Scholes

A biodiversity intactness index

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Africa and the global carbon cycle

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2007)

African greenhouse gas emission inventories and mitigation options: Forestry, land-use change, and agriculture

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Agriculture. What next for agriculture after Durban?

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An atmospheric inversion over the city of Cape Town: sensitivity analyses

scientific article published in 2019

Assessing non-CO 2 climate-forcing emissions and mitigation in sub-Saharan Africa

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Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012-20

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Biodiversity targets after 2010

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Biodiversity, climate change, and ecosystem services

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Building a global observing system for biodiversity

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Carbon storage in eucalyptus and pine plantations in South Africa

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Climate and desertification: looking at an old problem through new lenses

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Competition between trees and grasses for both soil water and mineral nitrogen in dry savannas

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Complexity in water and carbon dioxide fluxes following rain pulses in an African savanna

scientific article published on 07 July 2009

Determinants of woody cover in African savannas

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Differing Responses to Rainfall Suggest More Than One Functional Type of Grassland in South Africa

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Diversity without representation

scientific article published in July 2006

Downward flux of water through roots (i.e. inverse hydraulic lift) in dry Kalahari sands

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Dryland ecosystems: the coupled stochastic dynamics of soil water and vegetation and the role of rainfall seasonality

scientific article published on 13 May 2008

Ecology. Dust unto dust

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Ecology. Millennium ecosystem assessment: research needs

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Ecology. Toward a global biodiversity observing system.

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Greenhouse gas emissions from vegetation fires in Southern Africa

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Ground-based optical measurements at European flux sites: a review of methods, instruments and current controversies.

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Improving operational land surface model canopy evapotranspiration in Africa using a direct remote sensing approach

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Influence of timing and spatial extent of savanna fires in southern Africa on atmospheric emissions

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Interacting Regional-Scale Regime Shifts for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

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Measuring conditions and trends in ecosystem services at multiple scales: the Southern African Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (SAfMA) experience

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Nature: the many benefits of ecosystem services

scientific article published in Nature

Observation and integrated Earth-system science: A roadmap for 2016–2025

Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social–ecological systems

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Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems.

scientific article published on November 2001

Savanna domain in the herbivores-fire parameter space exploiting a tree-grass-soil water dynamic model.

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Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st century

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Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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Social-ecological change: insights from the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society

scientific article published in 2022

Systematic long-term observations of the global carbon cycle.

scientific article published on 4 May 2009

The Future of Semi-Arid Regions: A Weak Fabric Unravels

scientific article published in 2020

The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

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The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

research work

The Pongola Bush: Tree diversity assessment in a KwaZulu-Natal forest patch

scientific article published on 20 September 2022

The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice

The burning of fuelwood in South Africa: When is it sustainable?

scientific article published in January 1995

The charcoal trap: Miombo forests and the energy needs of people

scientific article (publication date: 19 August 2011)

Tree-grass co-existence in savanna: Interactions of rain and fire

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Winter Is Coming: A Southern Hemisphere Perspective of the Environmental Drivers of SARS-CoV-2 and the Potential Seasonality of COVID-19

scientific article published on 05 August 2020