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Lands characterized by low annual rainfall of less than 250 mm, by evaporation exceeding precipitation and a sparse vegetation. (Source: LBC)

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Hanrahan SA, Nicolson SW 1987. Ultrastructure of the malpighian tubules of Onymacris plana plana peringuey (Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae). International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology 16 (2) 99-119

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Swanepoel JW, Krüger GHJ, van Heerden PDR 2007. Effects of sulphur dioxide on photosynthesis in the succulent Augea capensis Thunb.. Journal of Arid Environments 70 (2) 208-221

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Fujioka T, Chappell J 2011. Desert landscape processes on a timescale of millions of years, probed by cosmogenic nuclides. Aeolian Research 3 (2) 157-164

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Göttsche F-M, Hulley GC 2012. Validation of six satellite-retrieved land surface emissivity products over two land cover types in a hyper-arid region. Remote Sensing of Environment 124 149-158

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Stuut J-BW, Lamy F 2004. Climate variability at the southern boundaries of the Namib (southwestern Africa) and Atacama (northern Chile) coastal deserts during the last 120,000 yr. Quaternary Research 62 (3) 301-309

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Owen JJ 2013. Hillslope Processes in Arid Environments. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Treatise on Geomorphology: Volume 7: Mountain and Hillslope Geomorphology 7 363-374

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Burke A 2014. Natural recovery of dwarf shrubs following topsoil and vegetation clearing on gravel and sand plains in the southern Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 100-101 18-22

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Wiegand K, Saltz D, Ward D, Levin SA 2008. The role of size inequality in self-thinning: A pattern-oriented simulation model for arid savannas. Ecological Modelling 210 (4) 431-445

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Gehring AU, Riahi N, Kind J, Almqvist BSG, Weidler PG 2014. The formation of the Namib Sand Sea inferred from the spatial pattern of magnetic rock fragments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 395 168-172

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Dreber N, Oldeland J, van Rooyen GMW 2011. Species, functional groups and community structure in seed banks of the arid Nama Karoo: Grazing impacts and implications for rangeland restoration. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 141 (3-4) 399-409

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van Wyk B-E, Kolberg H 2008. A new species of Lotononis section Oxydium (Fabaceae, Crotalarieae). South African Journal of Botany 74 (4) 750-752

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Grist J, Nicholson SE, Mpolokang A 1997. On the use of NDVI for estimating rainfall fields in the Kalahari of Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 35 (2) 195-214

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Popp A, Domptail S, Blaum N, Jeltsch F 2009. Landuse experience does qualify for adaptation to climate change. Ecological Modelling 220 (5) 694-702

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Loope LL, Sanchez PG 1988. Biological invasions of arid land nature reserves. Biological Conservation 44 (1-2) 95-118

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Boelhouwers J, Scheepers T 2004. The role of antelope trampling on scarp erosion in a hyper-arid environment, Skeleton Coast, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 58 (4) 545-557

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196303001769

van Heerden PDR, Swanepoel JW, Krüger GHJ 2007. Modulation of photosynthesis by drought in two desert scrub species exhibiting C3-mode CO2 assimilation. Environmental and Experimental Botany 61 (2) 124-136

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du Pisani PL 2006. Direct reclamation of potable water at Windhoek's Goreangab reclamation plant. Desalination 188 (1-3) 79-88

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Kroll T, Kruger AS 1998. Closing the gap: bringing communal farmers and service institutions together for livestock and rangeland development. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 315-323

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Oldeland J, Dorigo W, Lieckfeld L, Lucieer A, Jürgens N 2010. Combining vegetation indices, constrained ordination and fuzzy classification for mapping semi-natural vegetation units from hyperspectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 114 (6) 1155-1166

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Matmon A, Mushkin A, Enzel Y, Grodek T 2013. Erosion of a granite inselberg, Gross Spitzkoppe, Namib Desert. Geomorphology 201 52-59

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Hipondoka MHT, Mauz B, Kempf J, Packman S, Chiverrell RC, Bloemendaal J 2014. Chronology of sand ridges and the Late Quaternary evolution of the Etosha Pan, Namibia. Geomorphology 204 (1) 553-563

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Seely M, Klintenberg P 2007. Can information circulation contribute to combating desertification?. AIDCCD – Active exchange of experience on indicators and development of perspectives in the context of UNCCD: Role of information circulation systems in scientific and practical approaches to combat desertification. Proceedings of the International Seminar 14-23

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Chase BM, Meadows ME, Carr AS, Reimer PJ 2010. Evidence for progressive Holocene aridification in southern Africa recorded in Namibian hyrax middens: Implications for African Monsoon dynamics and the "African Humid Period". Quaternary Research 74 (1) 36-45

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Webb JA, White S 2013. 6.31 Karst in Deserts. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences - Treatise on Geomorphology 6 397-406

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Jacobson KM, Jacobson P, Miller OK 1999. The autecology of Battarrea stevenii in ephemeral rivers of southwestern Africa. Mycological Research 103 (1) 9-17

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Brunotte E, Maurer B, Fischer P, Lomax J, Sander H 2009. A sequence of fluvial and aeolian deposits (desert loess) and palaeosoils covering the last 60 ka in the Opuwo basin (Kaokoland/Kunene Region, Namibia) based on luminescence dating. Quaternary International 196 (1-2) 71-85

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Maslin MA, Pancost RD, Wilson KE, Lewis J, Trauth MH 2012. Three and half million year history of moisture availability of South West Africa: Evidence from ODP site 1085 biomarker records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 317-318 41-47

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Lovegrove BG 1986. The metabolism of social subterranean rodents: adaptation to aridity. Oecologia 69 (4) 551-555

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00410361

Drummond AJ, Wentzel JD 1955. Actinometric measurements and the radiation climate of South-West Africa. Archiv für Meteorologie, Geophysik und Bioklimatologie, Serie B 6 (3) 236-273

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02243357

Lalley JS, Viles HA Recovery of lichen-dominated soil crusts in a hyper-arid desert. 17 1 (1-20) 2008

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-007-9153-y

Jürgens N 2001. Aspects of botanical biodiversity in southern African arid regions - An outline of concepts and results. Biodiversity 53-70

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-06071-1_5

Gloudsley-Thompson JL 1975. The Desert as a Habitat. Rodents in Desert Environments 28 1-13

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-010-1944-6_1

Skadhauge E 1981. Problems of Life in the Desert, of Migration, and of Egg-Laying. Osmoregulation in Birds 156-174

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-81585-0_10

Milton SJ 1991. Plant spinescence in arid southern Africa: does moisture mediate selection by mammals?. Oecologia 87 (2) 279-287

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00325267

Burke A 2005. Vegetation types of mountain tops in Damaraland, Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 14 (6) 1487-1506

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van Damme P 1998. Wild Plants as Food Security in Namibia and Senegal. The Arid Frontier 41 229-247

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-4888-7_12

Breckle S-W, Yair A, Veste M 2008. General Conclusions – Sand Dune Deserts, Desertification, Rehabilitation and Conservation. Arid Dune Ecosystems 200 441-459

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-75498-5_30

Schulze E-D, Eller BM, Thomas DA, von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E 1980. Leaf temperatures and energy balance of Welwitschia mirabilis in its natural habitat. Oecologia 44 (2) 258-262

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Clousley-Thompson JL 1991. Water Balance and Nitrogenous Excretion. Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles 80-101

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75337-4_5

Clousley-Thompson JL 1996. Community Processes. Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands 127-167

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Phillips J 1956. Aspects of the ecology and productivity of some of the more arid regions of Southern and Eastern Africa. Vegetatio 7 (1) 38-68

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Goudie AS 2009. Global Deserts and Their Geomorphological Diversity. Geomorphology of Desert Environments 9-20

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-5719-9_2

Walter H 1985. Zonobiome of the Subtropical Arid Climate with Deserts. Vegetation of the Earth and Ecological Systems of the Geo-biosphere 113-147

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Jürgens N 1997. Floristic biodiversity and history of African arid regions. Biodiversity and Conservation 6 (3) 495-514

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1018325026863

Berry HH, Siegfried WR 1991. Mosaic-Like Events in Arid and Semi-Arid Namibia. The Mosaic-Cycle Concept of Ecosystems Ecological Studies 85 147-160

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Jürgens N 1991. A new approach to the Namib Region. Vegetatio 97 (1) 21-38

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00033899

Jürgens N, Burke A 2000. The Arid Scenario: Inselbergs in the Namib Desert Are Rich Oases in a Poor Matrix (Namibia and South Africa). Inselbergs: Ecological Studies 146 237-257

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-59773-2_12

Eckardt FD, Drake N 2011. Introducing the Namib Desert Playas. Sabkha Ecosystems: Tasks for Vegetation Science 46 19-25

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-9673-9_3

Kojwang HO 2000. Wood fuels review and assessment :Namibia Country Report.

Website link:http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/x6797e/X6797E00.htm

Bourke MC, Child A, Stokes S 2003. Optical age estimates for hyper-arid fluvial deposits at Homeb, Namibia. Quaternary Science Reviews 22 (10-13) 1099-1103

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