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Ecosystem services from Southern African woodlands and their future under global change
Miombo and mopane woodlands are the dominant land cover in southern Africa. Ecosystem services from these woodlands support the livelihoods of 100 M rural people and 50 M urban dwellers, and others beyond the region. Provisioning services contribute 780 M. Woodlands support much of the region's agriculture through transfers of nutrients to fields and shifting cultivation. Woodlands store 18â24 PgC carbon, and harbour a unique and diverse flora and fauna that provides spiritual succour and attracts tourists. Longstanding processes that will impact service provision are the expansion of croplands (0.1 M km(2); 2000â2014), harvesting of woodfuels (93 M tonnes yr(â1)) and changing access arrangements. Novel, exogenous changes include large-scale land acquisitions (0.07 M km(2); 2000â2015), climate change and rising CO(2). The net ecological response to these changes is poorly constrained, as they act in different directions, and differentially on trees and grasses, leading to uncertainty in future service provision. Land-use change and socio-political dynamics are likely to be dominant forces of change in the short term, but important land-use dynamics remain unquantified. This article is part of the themed issue âTropical grassy biomes: linking ecology, human use and conservationâ
Afri-Can Forum 2
CITATION: Mukudu, H., et al. 2016. Afri-Can Forum 2. BMC Infectious Diseases, 16:315, doi:10.1186/s12879-016-1466-6.The original publication is available at https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.comENGLISH ABSTRACT: We are pleased to present peer reviewed forum proceedings of the 2nd synchronicity forum of GHRI/CHVIfunded Canadian and
African HIV prevention and vaccine teams
Forum objectives
âGHRI-funded capacity building and HIV prevention research teams presented highlights of achievements
âTeams discussed how to jointly build on achievements for sustainability
âProvided an opportunity for inter-team collaboration,
synchronize best approach to capacity building, mentoring of new researchers and building leadership
âProvided opportunities for informal discussions and networking among the teams.
âTeams learnt about recent advances in the area of African regulatory and ethics review process
âThe forum proceedings was a special supplement in an openaccess journal was producedhttps://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-16-supplement-2Publisher's versio