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1) The plants of an area considered in general or as communities, but not taxonomically; the total plant cover in a particular area or on the Earth as a whole. 2) The total mass of plant life that occupies a given area. (Source: ALL / MGH)

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Moll E, Moll A, Picker M, Ross-Gillespie V, Swart R, Smuts S, Xaba P 2011. Seed-collecting ants that run fairy rings around scientists or the mystery of the bare patches. Veld and Flora 97 (1) 27-29

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/veld/97/1/EJC113638

van Jaarsveld E 2008. Desert grapes: an expedition to the remote reaches of the southern Namib: Namib flora. Veld and Flora 94 (2) 82-86

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van Jaarsveld E 2009. Kleinduimpie grass: Dregeochloa pumila, the only succulent grass in the world: Namib desert flora. Veld and Flora 95 (1) 19-21

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/veld/95/1/EJC113328

Coetzee M, Kinyanga V, Kruger B, Seely M, Werner W 2014. Combating land degradation in Namibia over 23 years: learning what matters in DLDD. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 69 (3) 171-174

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2014.949902

van Jaarsveld EJ 1987. The succulent riches of South Africa and Namibia. Aloe 24 45-92

Website link:http://www.succulents.net/backup/society/aloe_archive.html

Williamson G 2005. Anacampseros retusa from the deep freeze into the furnace. Cactus and Succulent Journal 77 (4) 170-176

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.2985/0007-9367(2005)77[170:ARFTDF]2.0.CO;2

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

Steffen S, Mucina L, Kadereit G 2010. Revision of Sarcocornia (Chenopodiaceae) in South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique. Systematic Botany 35 (2) 390-408

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40802450

Harvey TS, Lavranos JJ 2011. Aloe argenticauda and Aloe pachygaster - Two vegetatively similar Aloe species from the winter rainfall highlands of southern Namibia. Cactus and Succulent Journal 83 (1) 43-46

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.2985/0007-9367-83.1.43

Bolin JF, Maass E, Musselman LJ 2011. A New Species of Hydnora (Hydnoraceae) from Southern Africa. Systematic Botany 36 (2) 255-260

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1600/036364411X569453

Mahr D 2011. The Many Faces of Pachypodium lealii. Cactus and Succulent Journal 83 (3) 123-129

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.2985/0007-9367-83.3.123

Williamson G 2012. The remarkable Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. (Amaryllidaceae); survivor from the northern tropical savanna woodlands to the South African semi-arid Karoo. Cactus and Succulent Journal 84 (2) 88-91

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.2985/0007-9367-84.2.88

McCoy TA 2016. A New Species of Aloe from the Republic of Angola. Cactus and Succulent Journal 88 (6) 277-280

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2985/015.088.0603

Galloway FB, Wynberg RP, Nott K 2016. Commercialising a Perfume Plant, Commiphora wildii: Livelihood Implications for Indigenous Himba in North-West Namibia. International Forestry Review 18 (4) 429-443

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1505/146554816820127541

Harmse CJ, Kellner K, Dreber N 2016. Restoring productive rangelands: A comparative assessment of selective and non-selective chemical bush control in a semi-arid Kalahari savanna. Journal of Arid Environments 135 39-49

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196316301434

Barnard P, Waage JK 2004. Tackling biological invasions around the world: regional responses to the invasive alien species threat.

Website link:https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/28023

McClean CJ, Doswald N, Küper W, Sommer JH, Barnard P, Lovett JC 2006. Potential impacts of climate change on Sub-Saharan African plant priority area selection. Diversity and Distributions 12 645-655

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2006.00290.x/full

Tarnita CE, Bonachela JA, Sheffer E, Guyton JA, Coverdale TC, Long RA, Pringle RM 2017. A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns. Nature 541 398-401

Website link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v541/n7637/full/nature20801.html

Shackley M 1980. An Acheulean industry with Elephas recki fauna from Namib IV, South West Africa (Namibia). Nature 284 (5754) 340-341

Website link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v284/n5754/abs/284340a0.html

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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Moritz W 1992. Nara, das Brot der Wüste.

Website link:http://www.namibiana.de/de/die-nara-das-brot-der-wueste.html

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

Carr AS, Chase BM, Boom A, Medina-Sanchez J 2016. Stable isotope analyses of rock hyrax faecal pellets, hyraceum and associated vegetation in southern Africa: Implications for dietary ecology and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Journal of Arid Environments 134 33-48

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196316301148

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

Fischer C, Kollmann J, Wagner TC 2015. How does the seed fate of Crotalaria podocarpa DC, a highly competitive herbaceous legume in arid rangelands, contribute to its establishment probability?. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 17 (5) 405-411

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1433831915000682

Meyer JJM, Senejoux F, Heyman HM, Meyer NL, Meÿer MA 2015. The occurrence of triterpenoids from Euphorbia gummifera inside the fairy circles of Garub in the southern Namibian pro-desert. South African Journal of Botany 98 10-15

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629915000204

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

Cloete JG, Berner JM 2016. Using chlorophyll a fluorescence to study the photosynthetic efficiency of Welwitschia mirabilis plants. South African Journal of Botany 103 312

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629916000648

Zhang H, Sinclair R 2015. Namibian fairy circles and epithelial cells share emergent geometric order. Ecological Complexity 22 32-35

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1476945X15000069

Di Salvator M, Carafa AM, Carratu G 2016. Environmental requirements for germination of dispersion units of Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. fil.. Journal of Arid Environments 125 116-121

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196315300720

Berner JM, Shuuya T, Wassenaar T, Krüger GHJ 2015. Spatial distribution in the photosynthetic efficiency of Welwitschia in the central Namib dessert. South African Journal of Botany 98 206

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S025462991500188X

Shuuya T, Berner J, Krüger G, Wassenaar T, Curtis B 2016. Understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of photosynthetic efficiency of Welwitschia mirabilis in the central Namib Desert. South African Journal of Botany 103 348-349

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629916001988

Marais EM 2016. Five new species of Pelargonium, section Hoarea (Geraniaceae), from the Western and Northern Cape Provinces of South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 103 145-155

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629915003968

2015. Uncrowned Monarch of the Namib - Welwitschia mirabilis.

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629915002409

Marlin D, Nicolson SW, Sampson JDS, Krüger K 2016. Insights into the pollination requirements of the only African wild tobacco, Nicotiana africana (Solanaceae) from the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 125 64-67

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196315300604

Lim S, Chase BM, Chevalier M, Reimer PJ 2016. 50,000 years of vegetation and climate change in the southern Namib Desert, Pella, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 451 197-209

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018216001619

Scott L, Gil-Romera G, Marais E, Brook GA 2016. Evidence of vegetation change in Late Quaternary deposits of the Namib Desert and boundary region. Quaternary International 404 (B) 186

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215012574

Ludwig A, Meyer H, Nauss T 2016. Automatic classification of Google Earth images for a larger scale monitoring of bush encroachment in South Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 50 89-94

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243416300265

Bello I, Shehu MW, Musa M, Aswami MZ, Mahmud R 2016. Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. (Sausage tree): Phytochemistry and pharmacological review of a quintessential African traditional medicinal plant. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 189 253-276

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378874116303300

Swelankomo N, Manning JC, Magee AR 2016. The genus Hilliardiella (Asteraceae: Vernonieae) in southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 106 41-59

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629916300096

Gopalakrishan L, Doriya K, Kumar DS 2016. Moringa oleifera: A review on nutritive importance and its medicinal application. Food Science and Human Wellness 5 (2) 49-56

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213453016300362

Makita C, Chimuka L, Steenkamp P, Cukrowska E, Madala E 2016. Comparative analyses of flavonoid content in Moringa oleifera and Moringa ovalifolia with the aid of UHPLC-qTOF-MS fingerprinting. South African Journal of Botany 105 116-122

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629916002507

Schrire B 2013. A review of tribe Indigofereae (Leguminosae–Papilionoideae) in Southern Africa (including South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia; excluding Botswana). South African Journal of Botany 89 281-283

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629913002937

van Holsbeeck S, de Cauwer V, de Ridder M, Fichtler E, Beeckman H, Mertens J 2016. Annual diameter growth of Pterocarpus angolensis (Kiaat) and other woodland species in Namibia. Forest Ecology and Management 373 1-8

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Chinsembu KC, Hijarunguru A, Mbangu A 2015. Ethnomedicinal plants used by traditional healers in the management of HIV/AIDS opportunistic diseases in Rundu, Kavango East Region, Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 100 33-42

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S025462991500294X

Swanepoel W, van Jaarsveld E, Voigt W, van Wyk F, Versfeld F 2009. The Otjihipa Mountains Expedition: botanical exploration in Namibia: Kaokoveld centre of endemism. Veld and Flora 95 (1) 12-18

Website link:http://reference.sabinet.co.za/document/EJC113329

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Wood fuels and assessment: Namibia country report: 2. Wood Fuels in Namibia.

Website link:http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/x6797e/X6797E02.htm

Burke A 2005. Status of succulent shrubs in the southern Namib Desert, Succulent Karroo Biome. African Journal of Ecology 43 325-331

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2005.00584.x/abstract

Günster A 1994. Phenological niches of coexisting serotinous plants in the Namib Desert. Journal of Tropical Ecology 10 531-544

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2559987