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A wide, open, comparatively barren tract of land with few forms of life and little rainfall. (Source: MGH)

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Hughes JJ, Ward D 1993. Predation risk and distance to cover affect foraging behaviour in Namib Desert gerbils. Animal Behaviour 46 (6) 1243-1245

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347283713205

Breton C, Lancaster N, Nickling WG 2008. Magnitude and frequency of grain flows on a desert sand dune. Geomorphology 95 (3-4) 518-523

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X07003534

Willoughby EJ 1968. Water economy of the stark's lark and grey-backed finch-lark from the Namib Desert of South West Africa. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 27 (3) 723-745

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010406X68906142

Davies JG, Cowlishaw G 1996. Baboon carnivory and raptor interspecific competition in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 34 (2) 247-249

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396901068

Seymour RS, Seely MK 1996. The respiratory environment of the Namib Desert Golden Mole. Journal of Arid Environments 32 (4) 453-461

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396900385

Klopatek JM, Stock WD 1994. Partitioning of nutrients in Acanthosicyos horridus, a keystone endemic species in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 26 (3) 233-240

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196384710263

Curtis BA 1985. Temperature tolerances in the Namib Desert dune ant, Camponotus detritus. Journal of Insect Physiology 31 (6) 463-466

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191085900939

Burke A 2013. Succulent plants on arid inselbergs. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 208 (5-6) 321-329

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Greyling T, Cilliers SS, van Hamburg H 2007. Vegetation studies of feral horse habitat in the Namib Naukluft Park, Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 73 (2) 328

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S025462990700172X

Selby MJ, Hendy CH, Seely MK 1979. A late quarternary lake in the central Namib desert, Southern Africa, and some implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 26 37-41

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018279901391

Günster A 1994. Seed bank dynamics - longevity, viability and predation of seeds of serotinous plants in the central Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 28 (3) 195-205

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305800576

Kandari LS, Kulkarni MG, van Staden J 2012. Germination and growth requirements of Rogeria longiflora - Medicinal plant of the Namib Desert. South African Journal of Botany 79 84-90

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629911001797

Cooper PD 1982. Water balance and osmoregulation in a free-ranging tenebrionid beetle, Onymacris unguicularis, of the Namib Desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 28 (9) 737-742

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191082901330

Lancaster N, Teller JT 1988. Interdune deposits of the Namib Sand Sea. Sedimentary Geology 55 (1-2) 91-107

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0037073888900917

Vogel JC 1989. Evidence of past climatic change in the Namib Desert. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 70 (4) 355-366

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018289901132

Srivastava P, Brook GA, Marais E 2005. Depositional environment and luminescence chronology of the Hoarusib River Clay Castles sediments, northern Namib Desert, Namibia. Catena 59 (2) 187-204

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816204000888

Ward JD 1988. Eolian, fluvial and pan (playa) facies of the Tertiary Tsondab Sandstone Formation in the central Namib Desert, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 55 (1-2) 143-162

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0037073888900942

White K, Walden J, Drake N, Eckardt F, Settlell J 1997. Mapping the iron oxide content of dune sands, Namib Sand Sea, Namibia, using landsat thematic mapper data. Remote Sensing of Environment 62 (1) 30-39

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425797000680

Teller JT, Lancaster N 1986. Lacustrine sediments at Narabeb in the central Namib Desert, Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 56 (3-4) 177-195

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018286900933

Lancaster N, Schaber GG, Teller JT 2000. Orbital Radar Studies of Paleodrainages in the Central Namib Desert. Remote Sensing of Environment 71 (2) 216-225

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425799000887

Goudie AS, Viles HA, Parker AG 1997. Monitoring of rapid salt weathering in the central Namib Desert using limestone blocks. Journal of Arid Environments 37 (4) 581-598

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397902974

Vickery KJ, Eckardt FD 2013. Dust emission controls on the lower Kuiseb River valley, Central Namib. Aeolian Research 10 125-133

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963713000219

Eckardt FD, Schemenauer RS 1998. Fog water chemistry in the Namib desert, Namibia. Atmospheric Environment 32 (14-15) 2595-2599

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231097004986

Kocurek G, Lancaster N, Carr M, Frank A 1999. Tertiary Tsondab Sandstone Formation: preliminary bedform reconstruction and comparison to modern Namib Sand Sea dunes. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29 (4) 629-642

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536299001207

Viles HA, Goudie AS 2007. Rapid salt weathering in the coastal Namib desert: Implications for landscape development. Geomorphology 85 (1-2) 49-62

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X06002923

Bubenzer A, Bolten A 2008. The use of new elevation data (SRTM/ASTER) for the detection and morphometric quantification of Pleistocene megadunes (draa) in the eastern Sahara and the southern Namib. Geomorphology 102 (2) 221-231

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Buffstein R 1984. The importance of microhabitat in thermoregulation and thermal conductance in two namib rodents - a crevice dweller, Aethomys namaquensis, and a burrow dweller, Gerbillurus paeba. Journal of Thermal Biology 9 (4) 235-241

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0306456584900020

Costa G, Petralia A, Conti E, Hänel C 1995. A 'mathematical' spider living on gravel plains of the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (4) 485-494

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Hulley SG, Hook SJ 2009. Intercomparison of versions 4, 4.1 and 5 of the MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity products and validation with laboratory measurements of sand samples from the Namib desert, Namibia. Remote Sensing of Environment 113 (6) 1313-1318

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425709000674

Jankowitz WJ, van Rooyen MW, Shaw D, Kaumba JS, van Rooyen N 2008. Mysterious circles in the Namib Desert. South African Journal of Botany 74 (2) 332-334

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Bao H, Thiemens MH, Heine K 2001. Oxygen-17 excesses of the Central Namib gypcretes: spatial distribution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 192 (2) 125-135

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X01004460

Stone AEC, Thomas DSG, Viles HA 2010. Late Quaternary palaeohydrological changes in the northern Namib Sand Sea: New chronologies using OSL dating of interdigitated aeolian and water-lain interdune deposits. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 288 (1-4) 35-53

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018210000441

Naidu SG, Hattingh J 1986. Water balance and osmoregulation in Stips stali, a nocturnal tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 32 (10) 891-896

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191086901046

Bristow CS, Lancaster N 2004. Movement of a small slipfaceless dome dune in the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia. Geomorphology 59 (1-4) 189-196

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X03003234

Stone AEC 2013. Age and dynamics of the Namib Sand Sea: A review of chronological evidence and possible landscape development models. Journal of African Earth Sciences 82 70-87

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X13000307

Livingstone I, Bristow C, Bryant RG, Bullard J, White K, Wiggs GFS, Baas ACW, Bateman MD, Thomas DSG 2010. The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables. Aeolian Research 2 (2-3) 93-104

Website link:http://www.robert-bryant.staff.shef.ac.uk/Livingstone%20et%20al.,%202010.pdf

Eckardt FD, Spiro B 1999. The origin of sulphur in gypsum and dissolved sulphate in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 123 (3-4) 255-273

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073898001377

Lamb T, Bond JE 2013. A multilocus perspective on phylogenetic relationships in the Namib darkling beetle genus Onymacris (Tenebrionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (3) 757-765

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790312004368

Walden J, White K 1997. Investigation of the controls on dune colour in the Namib Sand Sea using mineral magnetic analyses. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 152 (1-4) 187-201

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X97001544

White K, Walden J, Gurney SD 2007. Spectral properties, iron oxide content and provenance of Namib dune sands. Geomorphology 86 (3-4) 219-229

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X06003990

van Wyk B-E, Burke A, Mannheimer C, Magee AR, Tilney PM, Rossouw AS 2010. A new species of Polemanniopsis (Apiaceae) from Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 76 (1) 153-157

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Kühnelt W 1965. Nahrungsbeziehungen innerhalb der Tierwelt der Namibwüste (Südwestafrika). Nahrungsbeziehungen innerhalb der Tierwelt der Namibwüste (Südwestafrika) 185-190

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Burke A 2007. Recovery in Naturally Dynamic Environments: A Case Study from the Sperrgebiet, Southern African Arid Succulent Karoo. Environmental Management 40 (4) 635-648

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-006-0091-3

Riedel F, Henderson ACG, Heußner K-U, Kaufmann G, Kossler A, Leipe C, Shemang E, Taft L 2013. Dynamics of a Kalahari long-lived mega-lake system: hydromorphological and limnological changes in the Makgadikgadi Basin (Botswana) during the terminal 50 ka. Hydrobiologia

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Von Hase A, Cowling RM, Ellis AG 2006. Petal movement in cape wildflowers protects pollen from exposure to moisture. Plant Ecology 184 (1) 75-87

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11258-005-9053-8

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

Knetsch G 1938. Aus dem Sedimentstammbaum eines Trockengebietes (Beobachtung aus der südlichen Namib, Südwestafrika). Geologische Rundschau 29 (3-5) 334-347

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01806893

Birke M, Knödel K, Lange G, Yaramanci U 2007. Joint Interpretation. Environmental Geology 1099-1193

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-74671-3_20

Nicolson SW, Hanrahan SA 1986. Diuresis in a desert beetle? hormonal control of the malpighian tubules of Onymacris plana (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 156 (3) 407-413

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01101103

Smit MTR, Brent CP 1991. Water management at Rössing uranium mine, Namibia. Africa Mining '91 191-201

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-3656-3_19