Drivers of bird diversity in an understudied African centre of endemism: The Angolan Central Escarpment Forest
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2 Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. 3 Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (Ce3C), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. 4 A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, University of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria 5 Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação de Huíla, Rua Sarmento Rodrigues s/n, Lubango, Angola. 6 DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.
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