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7 Miombo in Bicuar National Park, Huíla. The catena progresses from Baikiaea woodland and thicket on the top of the plateau, through Brachystegia/Julbernardia woodland, to a fringe of Burkea savanna on the margin of the bottomland, where geoxyles dot the grassland
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The Savanna Biomes (Mesic/Dystrophic and Arid/Eutrophic) of Angola cover over 90% of the country. This Chapter presents the case for the recognition, across Africa, of these two distinctive savanna biomes, both defined by the co-dominance of fire-tolerant trees and C 4 grasses, falling within seasonal climates of warm, wet summers and mild, dry win...