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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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Perrin MR, Boyer H, Boyer DC 1992. Diets of the Hairy-Footed Gerbils Gerbillurus paeba abd G. tytonis from the dunes of the Namib Desert. Israel Journal of Zoology 38 (3-4) 373-383

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00212210.1992.10688684#.VGIKcVItBHg

Kok OB, Grobbelaar JU 1980. Chemical properties of water-holes in the Kuisen River Canyon, Namib Desert. Journal of the Limnological Society of southern Africa 6 (2) 82-84

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03779688.1980.9634550#.VGIHblItBHg

Eckardt FD, Kuring N 2005. SeaWiFS identifies dust sources in the Namib Desert. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26 (19) 4159-4167

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01431160500113112#.VGIFcFItBHg

Krug CB 2004. Survival in the Namib: Adaptations of the striped mouse to an arid environment. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 59 (2) 93-98

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359190409519167#.VGICF1ItBHg

Kok OB, Grobbelaar JU 1985. Notes on the availability and chemical composition of water from the gravel plains of the Namib-Naukluft Park. Journal of the Limnological Society of southern Africa 11 (2) 66-70

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03779688.1985.9632831#.VGH-I1ItBHg

Schulze ED, Lange OL, Gebauer G 1991. Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of mistletoes growing on nitrogen and non-nitrogen fixing hosts and on CAM plants in the Namib Desert confirm partial heterotrophy. Oecologia 88 457-462

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4219819

Kolberg H, Burke A 2007. Saving a threatened succulent. A partnership between NAMDEB, MSBP and NBRI in conservation of the threatened species Juttadinteria albata.

Website link:http://www.nbri.org.na/search/node/Saving%20a%20threatened%20succulent

van Jaarsveld E 2000. Welwitschia mirabilis. Veld and Flora 86 176-179

Website link:http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/veld

KEW Royal Botanic Gardens Welwitschia mirabilis (tree tumbo).

Website link:http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/plants-fungi/welwitschia-mirabilis-tree-tumbo

Newton RJ, Boyce DE, Burke A, Kolberg H 2009. Determination of Salsola nollothensis seed germination requirements for habitat restoration of Namibian sandy beaches.

Website link:http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/research-data/science-directory/projects/salsola-nollothensis-habitat

Whitaker C, Berjak P, Kolberg H, Pammenter NW 2004. Responses to various manipulations, and storage potential, of seeds of the unique desert gymnosperm, Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. fil.. South African Journal of Botany 70 (4) 622-630

Website link:http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajb/article/view/20727

Barnard P 2002. Fitful evolution of the Sperrgebiet National Park, a Namibian wilderness in a biodiversity hotspot. (9) 5-7

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Louw GN, Seely MK 1982. Ecology of desert organisms.

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Grobbelaar JU 1976. Some limological properties of an ephemeral waterbody at Sossus Vlei, Namiba Desert, South West Africa. Journal of the Limnological Society of southern Africa (2) 21-54

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/taas18/2/1?nav=tocList

Klaassen M, Brenninkmeijer A, Boix-Hinzen C, Mendelsohn J 2003. Fathers with Highly Demanding Partners and Offspring in a Semidesert Environment: Energetic Aspects of the Breeding System of Monteiro's Hornbills (Tockus monteiri) in Namibia. The Auk 120 (3) 866-873

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4090117

Griffin RE 1998. Species richness and biogeography of non-acarine arachnids in Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 7 467 - 481

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1008823527757

NamibRand Nature Reserve - Library.

Website link:http://www.namibrand.org/Library.htm

Shanyengana ES, Seely MK, Sanderson RD 2004. Major-ion chemistry and ground-water salinization in ephemeral floodplains in some arid regions of Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 57 71-83

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196303000958

Veste M, Mohr M 2005. Vegetation der Lineardünen der zentralen Namib und deren Ionenhaushalt. Ökologische Forschung im globalen Kontext 93-108

Website link:http://books.google.de/books?id=kiapOY7VVZgC&pg=PP8&lpg=PP8&dq=%C3%96kologische%20Forschung%20im%20globalen%20Kontext&source=bl&ots=fDQXoy_ROw&sig=Zcgz4vaRgmw6Wl3Vu3TXKI0U3Ug&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x5mxUc68J67Y4QTJr4HADw&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAw

Gordon DH, Griffin M Genetic divergence and speciation in a Namib sand sea lizard, Aporosaura anchietae.

Griffin RE 1998. Species richness and biogeography of non-acarine arachnids in Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 7 467 - 481

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1008823527757

Metago Environmental Engineers 2009. Environmental Scoping Report for the proposed Rossing South Uranium Mine.

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Barnard P 2002. Fitful evolution of the Sperrgebiet National Park, a Namibian wilderness in a biodiversity hotspot. 5-7

Louw GN, Seely MK 1982. Ecology of desert organisms.

Grobbelaar JU 1976. Some limological properties of an ephemeral waterbody at Sossus Vlei, Namiba Desert, South West Africa. Journal of the Limnological Society of southern Africa 2 51-54

Kinahan J 2009. Archaeological Specialist Report to the Central Namib Uranium Rush Strategic Environmental Assessment.

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Soderberg K, Henschel J, Swap R, Macko S 2011. Environmental controls on C, N and S cycling in plants of the Namib Desert. Geophysical Research Abstracts 13

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Vermeesch P, Fenton CR, Kober F, Wiggs GFS, Bristow CS, Xu S 2010. Sand residence times of one million years in the Namib Sand Sea from cosmogenic nuclides.

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Kinahan J, Kinahan JHA 1984. Holocene subsistence and settlement on the Namib Coast: the sxample of the Ugab River mouth. Cimbebasia B(4) (6) 59-72

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Andre HM, Noti MI, Jacobson K 1998. The soil microarthropods of the Namib desert: A patchy mosaic. Journal of African Zoology 111 (6) 499-517

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Kinahan J 2005. The late Holocene human ecology of the Namib Desert. 23°S Archaeology and environmental history of the southern deserts 120-131

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Adriaenssens EM, van Zyl L, de Maayer P, Rubagotti E, Rybicki E, Tuffin M, Cowan DA 2015. Metagenomic analysis of the viral community in Namib Desert hypoliths. Environment Microbiology 17 (2) 480-495

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Metagenomic analysis of the viral community in Namib Desert hypoliths.pdf	1.13 MB

Soderberg K, Swap RJ, Macko SA Fog-aerosol interactions in the coastal Namib Desert.

Website link:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFM.A51D0138S

Kinahan J 2012. Archaeological guidelines for exploration and mining in the Namib Desert.

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Brown CJ 1990. Potential impacts of prospecting and mining in desert environments. Environmental implications of prospecting and mining in the Namib 12-13

Marsh BA 1990. The Microenvironment Associated with Welwitschia mirabilis in the Namib Desert. Namib ecology: 25 years of Namib research 149-153

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Henschel JR 1990. The Biology of Leucorchestris arenicola (Araneae: Heteropodidae), a Burrowing Spider of the Namib Dunes. Namib ecology: 25 years of Namib research 115-127

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Seely MK 1990. The Desert Ecological Research Unit of Namibia: Current Status of Ecological Research in the Namib. Namib ecology: 25 years of Namib research 13-16

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Brain CK 1990. Twenty-five Years of Namib Research: A Personal Perspective. Namib ecology: 25 years of Namib research 5-12

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1990. A Chronology of Some Significant Events in Namib Research. Namib ecology: 25 years of Namib research 1-3

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Jürgens N, Burke A, Seely MK, Jacobson K 1997. Desert. Desert 189-214

Website link:https://www.amazon.de/Vegetation-Southern-Africa-R-Cowling/dp/0521548012

Ward JD, Corbett I 1990. Towards an age for the Namib. Namib ecology: 25 years of Namib research 17-26

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Seely M 1992. The Namib, Natural history of the ancient desert.

Website link:http://www.namibiana.de/namibia-information/literaturauszuege/titel/the-namib-natural-history-desert-mary-seely-namibia-9991668160-9789991668161.html

1994. Proceedings of Namibia's national workshop to combat desertification.

Robertson A, Jarvis A, Mendelsohn J, Swart R 2012. Namibia's Coast Chapter 1: Introducing the Coast of Namibia. Namibia's Coast: Ocean Riches and Desert Treasures 4-19

Rohde R, Hoffman T, Jack A, Sullivan S 2017. Climate change complexity: repeat landscape photographs of the Pro-Namib and Namib Desert.

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Sullivan S 2002. 'How can the rain fall in this chaos?': Myth and metaphor in representations of the north-west Namibian landscape. Challenges for anthropology in the African "renaissance" - A southern African contribution 255-317

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1990. Namib Ecology: 25 Years of Namib Research. (7)

Berry H 1996. A grain of Namib sand. Namibia Environment 1 57-61

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Jones B 1996. The northern Kalahari: Integrating development and conservation. Namibia Environment 1 71-73

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The northern Kalahari_Integrating development and conservation.pdf	4.21 MB