It was not possible for experts to estimate the impact of different human land uses on the abundance of every terrestrial vertebrate and vascular plant species in sub-Saharan Africa (±50,000 species), both because of the large number of estimates that would be required, and because there are...
Samples were placed in cool boxes immediately upon collection by study nurses and transported by motorbike to field laboratories where they were aliquoted and stored at −80 °C within 6 h of collection before subsequent transport to the central laboratory in Harare for long-term storage at...