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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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Seely MK, Hamilton III WJ 1976. Fog Catchment Sand Trenches Constructed by Tenebrionid Beetles, Lepidochora, from the Namib Desert. Science 193 (4252) 484-486

Website link:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/193/4252/484.abstract

Segalen L, Renard M, Pickford M, Senut B, Cojan I, le Callonnec L, Rognon P 2002. Environmental and climatic evolution of the Namib Desert since the Middle Miocene: the contribution of carbon isotope ratios in ratite eggshells. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 334 (12) 917-924

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631071302018370

Lange OL, Meyer A, Zellner H, Heber U 1994. Photosynthesis and Water Relations of Lichen Soil Crusts: Field Measurements in the Coastal Fog Zone of the Namib Desert. Functional Ecology 8 (2) 253-264

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2389909

Schieferstein B, Loris K 1992. Ecological investigations on lichen fields of the Central Namib. Vegetation 98 (2) 113-128

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00045550

Yeaton RI 1998. Structure and Function of the Namib Dune Grasslands: Characteristics of the Environmental Gradients and Species Distributions. Journal of Ecology 76 (3) 744-758

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2260571

von Willert DJ, Armbrüster N, Drees T, Zaborowski M 2005. Welwitschia mirabilis: CAM or not CAM — what is the answer?. Functional Plant Biology 32 (5) 389-395

Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/FP01241.htm

Zhai L, Berg C, Cebeci F, Kim Y, Milwild M, Rubner MF, Cohen RE 2006. Patterned Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Toward a Synthetic Mimic of the Namib Desert Beetle. Nano Letters 6 (6) 1213-1217

Website link:http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl060644q

Masson MJ, Naris PM 2002. Seismic Sensitivity in the Desert Golden Mole (Eremitalpa granti): A Review. Journal of Comparative Psychology 116 (2) 158-163

Website link:http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2002-01245-008

Eckardt F, White K 1997. Human induced disruption of stone pavement surf aces in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia: observations from Landsat Thematic Mapper. International Journal of Remote Sensing 18 (16) 3305-3310

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014311697216892

Burke A, Jürgens N, Seely MK 1998. Floristic affinities of an inselberg archipelago in the southern Namib desert—relic of the past, centre of endemism or nothing special?. Journal of Biogeography 25 (2) 311-317

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.252116.x/abstract

Leggett K 2010. Daily and hourly movement of male desert-dwelling elephants. African Journal of Ecology 48 (1) 197-205

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01101.x/abstract

Leggett K 2008. Annual Report 2008 For the International Elephant Foundation (January 2008 – December 2008).

Website link:http://www.elephantconservation.org/programs/archive-of-projects/leggett-annual-report-2008/

Radio-Collaring Elephants in Namibia with Keith Leggett - EarthWatch Institute (US/International).

Website link:http://www.earthwatch.org/aboutus/research/voices_of_science/radio_collaring_elephants/

Schmidt SM 2006. Pastoral community organization, livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in Mongolia's southern Gobi region. USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-39 18-29

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Lancaster N 2002. How dry was dry?-Late Pleistocene palaeoclimates in the Namib Desert. Quaternary Science Reviews 21 (7) 769-782

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379101001263

Heine K 2004. Flood reconstruction in the Namib Desert, Namibia and little ice age climatic implications: evidence from slackwater deposits and Desert soil sequences. Journal Geological Society of India 64 (04) 353-547

Website link:http://www.geosocindia.org/ViewArticle.aspx

van Heerden PDR, Krüger GHJ, Louw MK 2007. Dynamic responses of photosystem II in the Namib Desert shrub, Zygophyllum prismatocarpum, during and after foliar deposition of limestone dust. Environmental Pollution 146 (1) 34-45

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749106003988

Southgate RI, Masters P, Seely MK 1996. Precipitation and biomass changes in the Namib Desert dune ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 33 (3) 267-280

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396900646

Skinner JD, van Aarde RJ 1991. Bone Collecting by Brown Hyaenas Hyaena brunnea in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia. Journal of Archaeological Science 18 513-523

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Skinner JD, Haupt MA, Hoffman M, Dott HM 1998. Bone Collecting by Brown Hyaenas Hyaena brunnea in the Namib Desert: Rate of Accumulation. Journal of Archaeological Science 25 (1) 69-71

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440397902004

Segalen L, Renard M, Lee-Thorp JA, Emmanuel L, le Callonnec L, de Rafélis M, Senut B, Pickford M, Melice J-L 2006. Neogene climate change and emergence of C4 grasses in the Namib, southwestern Africa, as reflected in ratite 13C and 18 O. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 244 (3-4) 725-734

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X05008708

Pickford M 2000. Fossil spider's webs from the Namib Desert and the antiquity of Seothyra (Araneae, Eresidae). Annales de Paléontologie 86 (3) 147-155

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753396900800051

Günster A 1995. Grass cover distribution in the central Namib— a rapid method to assess regional and local rainfall patterns of arid regions?. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (1) 107-114

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196395800689

Brain C, Mitchell D 1999. Body Temperature Changes in Free-ranging Baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) in the Namib Desert, Namibia. International Journal of Primatology 20 (4) 585-598

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Olivier J 1995. Spatial distribution of fog in the Namib. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (2) 129-138

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305800849

Nex PAM, Kinnaird JA, Oliver GJH 2001. Petrology, geochemistry and uranium mineralisation of post-collisional magmatism around Goanikontes, southern Central Zone, Damaran Orogen, Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 33 (3-4) 481-502

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536201000963

Eltayeb MAH, van Grieken RE, Maenhaut W, Annegam HAJ 1992. Aerosol-soil fractionation for Namib Desert samples. Journal of Aerosol Science 23 (1) 983-986

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002185029290577I

Jacobson KM, Jacobson PJ 1998. Rainfall regulates decomposition of buried cellulose in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 38 (4) 571-583

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019639790358X

Abrams MM, Jacobson PJ, Jacobson KM, Seely MK 1997. Survey of soil chemical properties across a landscape in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 35 (1) 29-38

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196385701395

Basson IJ, Greenway G 2004. The Rössing Uranium Deposit: a product of late-kinematic localization of uraniferous granites in the Central Zone of the Damara Orogen, Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 38 (5) 413-435

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536204000545

Viles HA, Taylor MP, Nicoll K, Neumann S 2007. Facies evidence of hydroclimatic regime shifts in tufa depositional sequences from the arid Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 195 (1-2) 39-53

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073806002053

Srivastava P, Brook GA, Marais E, Morthekai P, Singhvi AK 2006. Depositional environment and OSL chronology of the Homeb silt deposits, Kuiseb River, Namibia. Quaternary Research 65 (3) 478-491

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589406000123

Shanyengana ES, Henschel JR, Seely MK, Sanderson RD 2002. Exploring fog as a supplementary water source in Namibia. Atmospheric Research 64 (1-4) 251-259

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809502000960

Lange J 2005. Dynamics of transmission losses in a large arid stream channel. Journal of Hydrology 306 (1-4) 112-126

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169404004238

Heine K, Heine JT 2002. A paleohydrologic reinterpretation of the Homeb Silts, Kuiseb River, central Namib Desert (Namibia) and paleoclimatic implications. Catena 48 (1-2) 107-130

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816202000127

Burke A 2007. Plant endemism in the central Namib Desert. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9 283-297

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Kadmon R 1995. Plant Competition along Soil Moisture Gradients: A Field Experiment with the Desert Annual Stipa capensis. Journal of Ecology 83 (2) 253-262

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2261564

Naidu SG 2001. Osmoregulation in Onymacris rugatipennis, a free-ranging tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 129 (4) 873-885

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109564330100352X

Lalley JS, Viles HA, Henschel JR, Lalley V 2006. Lichen-dominated soil crusts as arthropod habitat in warm deserts. Journal of Arid Environments 67 (4) 579-593

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306000978

Naidu SG 1998. Haemolymph Amino Acid, Sugar and Glycerol Levels in the Namib Desert Tenebrionid Stips stali During Dehydration and Rehydration. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 119 (2) 477-484

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1095643397004546

Naidu SG 2001. Water balance and osmoregulation in Stenocara gracilipes, a wax-blooming tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 47 (12) 1429-1440

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022191001001330

Scholtz CH, Harrison JG, Grebennikov VV 2004. Dung beetle (Scarabaeus (Pachysoma)) biology and immature stages: reversal to ancestral states under desert conditions (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83 (4) 453-460

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00389.x/abstract

Krogh SN, Zeisset MS, Jackson E, Whitford WG 2002. Presence/absence of a keystone species as an indicator of rangeland health. Journal of Arid Environments 50 (3) 513-519

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196301909000

Cowling RM, Dlamini TS, Stock WD 1999. Plant Induced Fertile Islands as Possible Indicators of Desertification in a Succulent Desert Ecosystem in Northern Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1/2 The Plant Ecology of Namaqualand, South Africa (Jun., 1999)) 161-167

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/20050782

El-Ghani MMA, Amer WM 2003. Soil–vegetation relationships in a coastal desert plain of southern Sinai, Egypt. Journal of Arid Environments 55 (4) 607-628

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019630200318X

El-Ghani MMA 1998. Environmental correlates of species distribution in arid desert ecosystems of eastern Egypt. Journal of Arid Environments 38 (2) 297-313

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397903232

Latorre JG, Garcia-Latorre J, Sanchez-Picon A 2001. Dealing with aridity: socio-economic structures and environmental changes in an arid Mediterranean region. Land Use Policy 18 (1) 53-64

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837700000454

Geist HJ, Lambin EF 2004. Dynamic Causal Patterns of Desertification. BioScience 59 (9) 817-829

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054%5B0817:DCPOD%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Abahussain AA, Abdou AS, Al-Zubari WK, El-Deen NA, Abdul-Raheem M 2002. Desertification in the Arab Region: analysis of current status and trends. Journal of Arid Environments 51 (4) 521-545

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302909754

Hamer AG, Franzel S, Mounkoro B 2007. Using farmers criteria to assess profitability of fodder shrubs in the desert margins of west Africa. Land Degradation and Development 18 (6) 670-679

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.805/abstract