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Acknowledgements
The author would like to express his grateful thanks to Dr. Ryuichi Tatsumi, Professor of
Kyusyu University, for kind guidance and various suggestions throughout this study.
The author is deeply grateful to Lyle Winks, the editor of Tropical Grasslands and Rainer
Schultze-Kraft of CIAT-Emeritus for essential advices about my papers about tropical
grasses.
The author also wishes to express his sincere gratitude to Mr Naokazu Asato for his
cooperation to analyze the several items and statistical analysis.
It is my pleasure to acknowledge the support and encouragement of Dr Yimin Cai, Dr
Masumi Ebina, Mr Minoru Yokota, Mr Nobuo Morikawa, Mr Masayuki Nagatoshi, Mrs
Tomoyo Mochizuki, Mr Tetsuya Toyokawa and Mr Atsushi Nagayama.
Finally, to my loving and supportive wife, Chihiro: my deepest gratitude.
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