We express our appreciation to the 2018 forestry graduate students’team for their great help in data collection.We also gratefully acknowledge the Provincial Natural Resources Bureau for providing us with their archive of journey reports and grazing license contracts.Finally,we appreciate the anonymous reviewers who carefully read the manuscript and made many insightful comments.
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financially supported by the Swedish Research Link
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the financial assistance accorded by the World Agroforestry Center(ICRAF)and the Center for Natural Resources and Development(CNRD)of TH Koln University of Applied Sciences without which this study would not have been possible
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