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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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Leggett K, Fennessy J, Schneider S 2003. Does land use matter in an arid envrionment? A case study from the Hoanib River catchment, north-western Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 53 (4) 529 - 543

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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302910669

Klaus J, Kulls C, Dahan O 2008. Evaluating the recharge mechanism of the Lower Kuiseb Dune area using mixing cell modeling and residence time data. Journal of Hydrology 358 (3 - 4) 304 - 316

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002216940800293X

Jacobson KM 1997. Moisture and substrate stability determine VA-mycorrhizal fungal community distribution and structure in an arid grassland. Journal of Arid Environments 35 59 - 75

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Burke A 2002. Island-Matrix Relationships in Nama Karoo Inselberg Landscapes. Part I: Do Inselbergs Provide a Refuge for Matrix Species?. Plant Ecology 160 (1) 79 - 90

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/20051236

Hughes DA, Metzler W 1998. Assessment of three monthly rainfall-runoff models for estimating the water resource yield of semiarid catchments in Namibia. Hydrological Sciences Journal 43 (2) 283 - 297

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Hughes DA 1995. Monthly rainfall-runoff models applied to arid and semiarid catchments for water resource estimation purposes. Hydrological Sciences Journal 40 (6) 751 - 769

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02626669509491463

Dahan O, Tatarsky B, Enzel Y, Kulls C, Seely M, Benito G 2008. Dynamics of Flood Water Infiltration and Ground Water Recharge in Hyperarid Desert. Ground Water 46 (3) 450 - 461

Website link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18194313

Cox GW 1987. The origin of vegetation circles on stony soils of the Namib Desert near Gobabeb, South West Africa/Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 13 237 - 243

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292220748_The_origin_of_vegetation_circles_on_stony_soils_of_the_Namib_Desert_near_Gobabeb_South_West_AfricaNamibia

Cowlishaw G, Davies JG 1997. Flora of the Pro-Namib Desert Swakop River catchment, Namibia: Community classification and implications for desert vegetation sampling. Journal of Arid Environments 36 (2) 271 - 290

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396902037

Burke A, Esler KJ, Pienaar E, Barnard P 2003. Species richness and floristic relationships between mesas and their surroundings in southern Africa Nama Karoo. Diversity and Distributions 9 (1) 43 - 53

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/species-richness-and-floristic-relationships-between-mesas-and-their-surroundings-in-southern-african-nama-karoo/

Burke A, Mannheimer C 2003. Towards a density measure for assessments of arid plant populations - examples from the southern Namib Desert. African Journal of Ecology 41 (3) 254 - 256

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2028.2003.00447.x/abstract

Burke A 2002. Properties of soil pockets on arid Nama Karoo inselbergs-the effect of geology and derived landforms. Journal of Arid Environments 50 (2) 219 - 234

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196301909073

Burke A 2002. Plant communities of a Central Namib inselberg landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science 13 (4) 483 - 492

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236733

Burke A 2003. How special are Etendeka mesas? Flora and elevation gradients in an arid landscape in north-west Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 55 (4) 747 - 764

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302002938

Burke A 2004. From plains to inselbergs: Species in special habitats as indicators for climate change?. Journal of Biogeography 31 831 - 841

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00984.x/full

Burke A 2001. Classification and ordination of plant communities of the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Journal of Vegetation Science 12 (1) 53 - 60

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236673

Burke A 2004. A preliminary account of patterns of endemism in Namibia's Sperrgebiet - the succulent karoo. Journal of Biogeography 31 1613 - 1622

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/a-preliminary-account-of-patterns-of-endemism-in-namibias-sperrgebiet-the-succulent-karoo/

Burke A 1997. The impact of large herbivores on floral composition and vegetation structure in the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 6 1203 - 1217

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/u271173654h65114/

Burke A 2004. Range management systems in arid Namibia - what can livestock numbers tell us?. Journal of Arid Environments 59 (2) 387 - 408

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196304000345

Burke A 1995. Geigeria alata in the Namib desert: Seed heteromorphism in an extremely arid environment. Journal of Vegetation Science 6 (4) 473 - 478

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236345

Becker T, Müller JV 2007. Floristic affinities, life-form spectra and habitat preferences of the vegetation of two semi-arid regions in Sahelian West and Southern Africa. Basic and Applied Dryland Research 1 33 - 50

Website link:http://www.kew.org/science-research-data/directory/publications/2007_28.htm

Digital Atlas of Namibia. Acacia (Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa) Project E1.

Website link:http://www.uni-koeln.de/sfb389/e/e1/download/atlas_namibia/e1_download_physical_geography_e.htm

O'Farrell PJ, de Lange WJ, le Maitre D, Reyers B, Blignaut JN, Milton SJ, Atkinson D, Egoh B, Maherry A, Colvin C, Cowling RM 2011. Possibilities and pitfalls presented by a pragmatic approach to ecosystem service valuation in an arid biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (6) 612 - 623

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4893

Popp A, Vogel M, Blaum N, Jeltsch F 2009. Scaling up ecohydrological processes: Role of surface water flow in water-limited landscapes. Journal of Geophysical Research 114 10 pages

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3835

Thomas DH 1984. Adaptations of desert birds, Sandgrouse (Pteroclidae) as highly successful inhabitants of Afro-Asian arid lands. Journal of Arid Environments 7 157 - 181

Maclean GL 1976. Adaptations of sandgrouse for life in arid lands. Proceedings of the 16th International Ornithological Congress 1974 502-516

Burke A 2015. Rare plants in a Succulent – Nama Karoo ecotone in southern Africa. African Journal of Ecology 53 (1) 93-102

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12206/full

Kaseke KF, Mills AJ, Henschel J, Seely MK, Esler K, Brown R 2012. The effects of desert pavements (gravel mulch) on soil micro-hydrology. Pure and Applied Geophysics 169 (5-6) 873-880

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00024-011-0367-2

Leggett K, Fennessy J, Schneider S 2003. Seasonal distributions and social dynamics of elephants in the Hoanib River catchment, northwestern Namibia. African Zoology 38 (2) 305-316

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/38/2/EJC17882

Ramey RR, Brown LM Desert-dwelling Elephants in the Hoarusib, Hoanib, and Uniab Rivers. Reports of 2011 - 2015. Pachyderm

Website link:http://desertelephantconservation.org/NewsAndReports.html#2011 Heading

Leggett KEA, Brown LM, Ramey RR 2011. Matriarchal associations and reproduction in a remnant subpopulation of desert-dwelling elephants. Pachyderm 49 20-32

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Macko S, Soderberg K, Henschel J, Billmark K, Swap R 2010. Linking fog water use by plants in the coastal Namib Desert to carbon and nitrogen cycles along aridity gradients.

Website link:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFM.B51A0291M

Lloyd P, Little RM, Crowe TM 2000. Investigator Effects on the Nesting Success of Arid-Zone Birds. Journal of Field Ornithology 71 (2) 227-235

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4514483

Gess SK, Gess FW 2004. A comparative overview of flower visiting by Non-Apis Bees in the semi-arid to arid areas of southern Africa. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77 (4) 602-618

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25086245

Kranner I, Beckett R, Hochman A, Nash TH 2008. Desiccation-Tolerance in Lichens: A Review. The Bryologist 111 (4) 576-593

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/20485752

Williamson G 2011. A new Drimia sp. from the Namib Desert in Namibia. Cactus and Succulent Journal 83 (6) 286-289

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.2985/0007-9367-83.6.286

Otte D 2014. Twenty-six new species of grasshoppers from the southern African arid zone (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Lentulidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 140 (1) 293-647

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276511130_Twenty-Six_New_Species_of_Grasshoppers_from_the_Southern_African_Arid_Zone_Orthoptera_AcridoideaLentulidae

Frost PGH, Siegfried WR, Burger AE 1976. Behavioural adaptations of the Jackass penguin, Spheniscus demersus to a hot, arid environment. Journal of Zoology 179 (2) 164-187

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1976.tb02289.x/abstract

Burney DA, Brook GA, Cowart JB 1994. A Holocene pollen record for the Kalahari Desert of Botswana from a U-series dated speleothem. The Holocene 4 (3) 225-232

Website link:http://hol.sagepub.com/content/4/3/225.abstract

Gil-Romera G, Scott L, Marais E, Brook GA 1991. Holocene environmental changes in Namibia inferred from pollen analysis of swamp and lake deposits. The Holocene 16 (8) 1073-1084

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Rössl R 2000. Reproduktionsbiologie, Entwicklungsbiologie und Ökologie von sympatrischen Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera: Insecta) des Kuiseb bei Gobabeb in der Namib Wüste / Namibia.

Website link:http://d-nb.info/960963324

Platnick NI, Griffin E 1988. On the first African and Australian spiders of the genus Cyrioctea (Araneae: Zodariidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 96 (3) 359-362

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25009699

Marsh AC 1985. Thermal responses and temperature tolerance in a diurnal desert ant, Ocymyrmex barbiger. Physiological Zoology 58 (6) 629-636

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/30156067

Viljoen PJ 1988. The ecology of the desert-dwelling elephants Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) of the western Damaraland and Kaokoland.

Website link:https://univofpretoria.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A934855106&databaseList=638%2C283&lang=en

Watson A 1979. Gypsum crusts in deserts. Journal of Arid. Journal of Arid Environments 2 (1) 3-21

Wilkinson MJ 1988. Tertiary events in the Tumas River basin, central Namib Desert: geology and geomorphology of the Naarip plain. 137-164

Beyer M, Koeniger P, Gaj M, Hamutoko JT, Wanke H, Himmelsbach T 2016. A deuterium-based labeling technique for the investigation of rooting depths, water uptake dynamics and unsaturated zone water transport in semiarid environments. Journal of Hydrology 533 627-643

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169415009853

Lauterbach M, de Wet van der Merwe P, Keßler L, Pirie MD, Bellstedt DU, Kadereit G Evolution of leaf anatomy in arid environments – A case study in southern African Tetraena and Roepera (Zygophyllaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 97 129-144

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790316000178

Hoetzel S, Dupont LM, Wefer G 2015. Miocene–Pliocene vegetation change in south-western Africa (ODP Site 1081, offshore Namibia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 423 102-108

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018215000516

Sonderberg K, Henschel J, Swap RJ, Macko SA 2014. Sulphur isotopes in the central Namib Desert ecosystem. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa (Special Issue: A festschrift for Professor Mary Seely) 69 (3) 217-233

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