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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many thanks to Bob Scholes (CSIR, South Africa), Xavier Le Roux (INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France), Jonathan Scurlock (ORNL, USA) and Joe Scanlan (Department of Natural Resources, Queensland, Australia) for providing information and making corrections to the manuscript. Dale Kaiser & Sonja Jones (ORNL, USA) for calculating tropical % of the Olson et al (1983) "grasslands" category.

Sadly, David Hall passed away in August 1999 before this chapter was published. His knowledge and love of savannas was only surpassed by his eagerness to learn and teach.

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