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Heilmeier H, Hartung W 2011. Chamaegigas intrepidus Dinter: An Aquatic Poikilohydric Angiosperm that Is Perfectly Adapted to Its Complex and Extreme Environmental Conditions. Plant Desiccation Tolerance 215 233-251

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-19106-0_12

Huchard E, Alvergne A, Féjan D, Knapp LA, Cowlishaw G, Raymond M 2010. More than friends? Behavioural and genetic aspects of heterosexual associations in wild chacma baboons. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64 (5) 769-781

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-009-0894-3

Cook WE 1997. Vultures. Avian Desert Predators 15-30

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-60353-2_2

Lovegrove BG 1986. The metabolism of social subterranean rodents: adaptation to aridity. Oecologia 69 (4) 551-555

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00410361

Martin H 1964. Beobachtungen zum Problem der jung-Präkambrischen glazialen Ablagerungen in Südwestafrika. Geologische Rundschau 54 (1) 115-127

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01821173

Rundel PW, Cowling RM, Esler KJ, Mustart PM, van Jaarsveld E, Bezuidenhout H 1995. Winter growth phenology and leaf orientation in Pachypodium namaquanum (Apocynaceae) in the succulent karoo of the Richtersveld, South Africa. Oecologia 101 (4) 472-477

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00329426

Hamer ML, Brendonck L 1997. Distribution, diversity and conservation of Anostraca (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in southern Africa. Hydrobiologia 359 (1-3) 1-12

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1003162820198

Hartmann G, Wehner R 1995. The ant's path integration system: a neural architecture. Biological Cybernetics 73 (6) 483-497

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00199541

Miller MF 1994. Large African herbivores, bruchid beetles and their interactions with Acacia seeds. Oecologia 97 (2) 265-270

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00323159

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

Brüchert V, Currie B, Peard KR, Lass U, Endler R, Dübecke A, Julies E, Leipe T, Zitzmann S 2006. Biogeochemical and physical control on shelf anoxia and water column hydrogen sulphide in the Benguela coastal upwelling system off Namibia. Past and Present Water Column Anoxia 64 161-193

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-4297-3_07

Volk OH 1984. Pflanzenvergesellschaftungen mit Riccia-Arten in Südwestafrika (Namibia). Vegetatio 55 (1) 57-64

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00039982

Upton SJ, Freed PS, Burdick DA 1992. Description of the oöcysts of three new species of Coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from lizards in Namibia. Systematic Parasitology 22 (1) 33-37

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00009634

Röll B 2005. Variability in a Common Species: The Lygodactylus Capensis Complex from Southern and Eastern Africa (Reptilia, Gekkonidae). African Biodiversity 237-244

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-387-24320-8_22

Hesse M 1984. Pollenkitt is lacking in Gnetatae: Ephedra and Welwitschia; further proof for its restriction to the angiosperms. Plant Systematics and Evolution 144 (1) 9-16

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00990796

Puhan D 1976. Metamorphic temperature determined by means of the dolomite-calcite solvus geothermometer-examples from the central Damara Orogen (South West Africa). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 58 (1) 23-28

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00384741

Kamona F 2012. Concentration of U and Th in the Bloedkoppie Granite, Namibia. The New Uranium Mining Boom 111-118

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-22122-4_13

Zettler ML, Bochert R, Pollehne F 2009. Macrozoobenthos diversity in an oxygen minimum zone off northern Namibia. Marine Biology 159 (6) 1949-1961

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-009-1227-9

Haack U 1976. Rekonstruktion der Abkühlungsgeschichte des Damara-Orogens in Südwest-Afrika mit Hilfe von Spaltspuren-Altern. Geologische Rundschau 65 (1) 967-1002

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01808507

Martens K 1988. Seven new species and two new subspecies of Sclerocypris SARS, 1924 from Africa, with new records of some other Megalocypridinids (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Hydrobiologia 162 (3) 243-273

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00016672

Dill HG, Kaufhold S, Lindenmaier F, Dohrmann R, Ludwig R, Botz R 2013. Joint clay–heavy–light mineral analysis: a tool to investigate the hydrographic–hydraulic regime of Late Cenozoic deltaic inland fans under changing climatic conditions (Cuvelai-Etosha Basin, Namibia). International Journal of Earth Sciences 102 (1) 265-304

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00531-012-0770-7

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

Thulin M, Johansson ANB 1996. Taxonomy and biogeography of the anomalous genus Wellstedia. The Biodiversity of African Plants 73-86

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-0285-5_11

Hellwege EM, Dietz K-J, Volk OH, Hartung W 1994. Abscisic acid and the induction of desiccation tolerance in the extremely xerophilic liverwort Exormotheca holstii. Planta 194 (4) 525-531

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00714466

Steffen S, Mucina L, Kadereit G 2009. Three new species of Sarcocornia (Chenopodiaceae) from South Africa. Kew Bulletin 64 (3) 447-459

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12225-009-9127-1

Carafa AM, Carratu G, Pizzolongo P 1992. Anatomical observations on the nucellar apex of Wellwitschia mirabilis and the chemical composition of the micropylar drop. Sexual Plant Reproduction 5 (4) 275-279

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00197378

Strauß J, Lakes-Harlan R 2009. The evolutionary origin of auditory receptors in Tettigonioidea: the complex tibial organ of Schizodactylidae. Naturwissenschaften 96 (1) 143-146

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-008-0450-4

Bruyns PV 2000. Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Stapeliads. Plant Systematics and Evolution 221 (3-4) 227-244

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01089295

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Thomas DA, Treichel S 1979. The activity and malate inhibition/stimulation of phosphoenolpyruvate-carboxylase in crassulacean-acid-metabolism plants in their natural environment. Planta 147 (1) 31-36

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00384587

Nørgaard T, Henschel JR, Wehner R 2007. Use of local cues in the night-time navigation of the wandering desert spider Leucorchestris arenicola (Araneae, Sparassidae). Journal of Comparative Physiology A 193 (2) 217-222

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-006-0178-6

von Willert DJ, Eller BM, Werger MJA, Brinckmann E 1990. Desert succulents and their life strategies. Vegetatio 90 (2) 133-143

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00033023

Uhlmann E, Görke C, Petersen A, Oberwinkler F 2004. Comparison of species diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in winter-rainfall areas of South Africa and summer-rainfall areas of Namibia. Mycological Progress 3 (4) 267-274

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-006-0097-5

Maggs-Kölling GL, Madsen S, Christiansen JL 2000. A phenetic analysis of morphological variation in Citrullus lanatus in Namibia. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 47 (4) 385-393

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1008751319879

Skadhauge E 1981. Problems of Life in the Desert, of Migration, and of Egg-Laying. Osmoregulation in Birds 156-174

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-81585-0_10

Milton SJ 1991. Plant spinescence in arid southern Africa: does moisture mediate selection by mammals?. Oecologia 87 (2) 279-287

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00325267

Marsh AC 1985. Microclimatic factors influencing foraging patterns and success of the thermophilic desert ant, Ocymyrmex barbiger. Insectes Sociaux 32 (3) 286-296

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02224917

Joubert EC, Harms TM, Muller A, Hipondoka M, Henschel JR 2012. A CFD study of wind patterns over a desert dune and the effect on seed dispersion. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 12 (1) 23-44

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10652-011-9230-3

Birkhofer K, Henschel J, Lubin Y 2012. Effects of extreme climatic events on small-scale spatial patterns: a 20-year study of the distribution of a desert spider. Oecologia 170 (3) 651-657

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-012-2342-8

Schmiedel U, Jürgens N 1999. Community structure on unusual habitat islands: quartz-fields in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 57-69

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1009818210799

Leistner OA, Werger MJA 1973. Southern kalahari phytosociology. Vegetatio 28 (5-6) 353-399

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02386499

Nørgaard T, Henschel JR, Wehner R 2003. Long-distance navigation in the wandering desert spider Leucorchestris arenicola: can the slope of the dune surface provide a compass cue?. Journal of Comparative Psychology A 189 (11) 801-809

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-003-0455-6

Schulze E-D, Ellis R, Schulze W, Trimborn P, Ziegler H 1996. Diversity, metabolic types and d13C carbon isotope ratios in the grass flora of Namibia in relation to growth form, precipitation and habitat conditions. Oecologia 106 (3) 352-369

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00334563

Clousley-Thompson JL 1991. Avoidance of Environmental Extremes. Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles 29-51

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75337-4_3

Schulze E-D, Eller BM, Thomas DA, von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E 1980. Leaf temperatures and energy balance of Welwitschia mirabilis in its natural habitat. Oecologia 44 (2) 258-262

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00572688

Turner JS, Henschel JR, Lubin YD 1993. Thermal constraints on prey-capture behavior of a burrowing spider in a hot environment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 33 (1) 35-43

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00164344

Clousley-Thompson JL 1991. Water Balance and Nitrogenous Excretion. Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles 80-101

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75337-4_5

Clousley-Thompson JL 1996. Community Processes. Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands 127-167

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-60977-0_7

Clousley-Thompson JL 1991. Interspecific Relationships, Feeding Specializations and Species Diversity. Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles 147-168

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75337-4_8

Pietruszka RD, Hanrahan SA, Mitchell D, Seely MK 1986. Lizard herbivory in a sand dune environment: the diet of Angolosaurus skoogi. Oecologia 70 (4) 587-591

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00379909

Nel JAJ, Loutit R, Braby R, Somers MJ 2013. Resource dispersion, territory size and group size of black-backed jackals on a desert coast. Acta Theriologica 58 (2) 189-197

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13364-012-0112-y