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Buffstein R, Campbell WE, Jarvis JUM 1985. Identification of crystalline allantoin in the urine of African Cricetidae (Rodentia) and its role in their water economy. Journal of Comparative Psychology B 155 (4) 493-499

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00684680

Lubin Y, Henschel J 1996. The influence of food supply on foraging behaviour in a desert Spider. Oecologia 105 (1) 64-73

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00328792

Williams JB, Tieleman BI Physiological Ecology and Behavior of Desert Birds. Current Ornithology 16 299-353

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-1211-0_6

von Willert DJ 1994. Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. fil. - das Überlebenswunder der Namibwüste. Naturwissenschaften 8 (10) 430-442

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01136642

Prendini L 2005. Scorpion Diversity and Distribution in Southern Africa: Pattern and Process. African Biodiversity 25-68

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-387-24320-8_2

Jacobson KM, Jacobson PJ, Miller OK 1993. The mycorrhizal status of Welwitschia mirabilis. Mycorrhiza 3 (1) 13-17

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00213462

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E 1986. Sukkulenten und ihr Überleben in Wüsten. Naturwissenschaften 73 (2) 57-69

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00365828

Heatwole H 1996. Foraging: The Acquisition of Energy. Energetics of Desert Invertebrates 35-116

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-60923-7_2

Jürgens N 1997. Floristic biodiversity and history of African arid regions. Biodiversity and Conservation 6 (3) 495-514

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1018325026863

Cowling RM, Esler KJ, Rundel PW 1999. Namaqualand, South Africa – an overview of a unique winter-rainfall desert ecosystem. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 3-21

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Kaseke KF, Mills AJ, Esler K, Henschel J, Seely MK, Brown R 2012. Spatial Variation of "Non-Rainfall" Water Input and the Effect of Mechanical Soil Crusts on Input and Evaporation. Pure and Applied Geophysics 169 (12) 2217-2229

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00024-012-0469-5

Buffstein R 1985. The effect of a high fibre diet on energy and water balance in two Namib desert rodents. Journal of Comparative Psychology B 155 (2) 211-218

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00685215

Rasmussen JL, Seely MK, Pietruszka RD 1991. The reproductive behavior of six species of Namib desert tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 4 (5) 567-582

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01048071

Günster A 1994. Variability in life history parameters of four serotinous plants in the Namib Desert. Vegetatio 114 (2) 149-160

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00048394

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Eller BM 1985. Availability of water controls Crassulacean acid metabolism in succulents of the Richtersveld (Namib desert, South Africa). Planta 164 (1) 44-55

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00391024

Lubyin YD, Henschel JR 1990. Foraging at the thermal limit: burrowing spiders (Seothyra, Eresidae) in the Namib desert dunes. Oecologia 84 (4) 461-467

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00328161

Prestel E, Salamitou S, DuBow MS 2008. An examination of the bacteriophages and bacteria of the Namib desert. Journal of Microbiology 46 (4) 364-372

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12275-008-0007-4

von Willert DJ, Eller BM, Brinckmann E, Baasch R 1982. CO2 gas exchange and transpiration of Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. fil. in the central Namib desert. Oecologia 55 (1) 21-29

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00386713

Ward D, Seely MK 1996. Competition and habitat selection in Namib desert tenebrionid beetles. Evolutionary Ecology 10 (4) 341-359

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01237722

Stomeo F, Valverde A, Pointing SB, McKay CP, Warren-Rhodes KA, Tuffin MI, Seely M, Cowan DA 2013. Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert. Extremophiles 17 (2) 329-337

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-013-0519-7

Curtis BA 1985. Nests of the namib desert dune ant Camponotus detritus Emery. Insectes Sociaux 32 (3) 313-320

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02224920

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Eller BM, Scheitler B 1983. CO2 exchange of CAM exhibiting succulents in the southern Namib desert in relation to microclimate and water stress. Photosynthesis Research 4 (3) 289-298

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00052133

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Schulze E-D, Thomas DA, Treichel S 1980. Ökophysiologische Untersuchungen an Pflanzen der Namib-Wüste. Naturwissenschaften 67 (1) 21-28

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00424499

Curtis BA 1985. The dietary spectrum of the namib desert dune ant Camponotus Detritus. Insectes Sociaux 32 (1) 78-85

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02233228

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Eller BM 1983. Responses of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) to Increasing and Decreasing Water Stress in Plants in the Southern Namib Desert. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology 3 155-163

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-6813-4_17

Schulze ED, Ziegler H, Stichler W 1976. Environmental control of crassulacean acid metabolism in Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. Fil. in its range of natural distribution in the Namib desert. Oecologia 24 (4) 323-334

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00381138

McClain E, Praetorius RL, Hanrahan SA, Seely MK 1984. Dynamics of the wax bloom of a seasonal Namib Desert tenebrionid, Cauricara phalangium (Coleoptera: Adesmiini). Oecologia 63 (3) 314-319

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00390659

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Eller BM, Scheitler B 1984. Water loss and malate fluctuations during the day for plants in the southern Namib desert. Oecologia 61 (3) 393-397

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00379641

Norgaard T, Henschel JR, Wehner R 2006. The night-time temporal window of locomotor activity in the Namib Desert long-distance wandering spider, Leucorchestris arenicola. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 192 (4) 365-372

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-005-0072-7

Treichel S, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Willert DJ 1984. Occurrence and changes of proline content in plants in the southern Namib Desert in relations to increasing and decreasing drought. Planta 162 (3) 236-242

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00397445

McClain E, Kok CJ, Monrad LAG 1991. Reflective wax blooms on black Namib desert beetles enhance day activity. Naturw 78 (1) 40-42

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01134045

Brain CK, Koste W 1993. Rotifers of the genus Proales from saline springs in the Namib desert, with the description of a new species. Hydrobiologia 255-256 (1) 449-454

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00025872

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Baasch R, Eller BM 1983. Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. Fil. - A Cam Plant? Ecophysiological Investigations in the Central Namib Desert. Effects of Stress on Photosynthesis: Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology 3 185-191

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-6813-4_20

Zobeck TM 1991. Soil properties affecting wind erosion. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 46 (2) 112-118

Website link:http://www.jswconline.org/content/46/2/112.extract

Seymour CL 2008. Grass, rainfall and herbivores as determinants of Acacia erioloba (Meyer) recruitment in an African savanna. Plant Ecology 197 (1) 131-138

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Ali El Saie MH, Ali El Saie YMA, El Gabry H 2003. Techno-economic study for combined cycle power generation with desalination plants at Sharm El Sheikh. Desalination 153 191-198

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916402011086

African Ethnobotany Network (AEN).

Website link:https://s10.lite.msu.edu/res/msu/botonl/b_online/library/peopleplants/activities/africa/aen/aen1/profile.htm

Midgley JJ, Bond WJ 2001. A Synthesis of the demography of African acacias. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17 (06) 871-886

Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=52344CE5821E3BDFCFD6B02645288EBC.journals?fromPage=online&aid=90803

van Wyk G, van Laar A, Theron JM 2001. Yield potential of selected Eucalyptus genetic stock on the sandy soils of the South African Cape West Coast. Southern African Forestry Journal 191 9-20

Website link:http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sfjfs/article/view/4285

Hoare D, Phillip F 2004. Phenological description of natural vegetation in southern Africa using remotely-sensed vegetation data. Applied Vegetation Science 7 (1) 19-28

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1654-109X.2004.tb00591.x/abstract

Bond WJ, Midgley JJ 2003. The Evolutionary Ecology of Sprouting in Woody Plants. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164 (3) S103-S114

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/374191?uid=4&sid=21102449507217

Scholes RJ, Kendall J, Justice CO 1996. The quantity of biomass burned in southern Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 101 (D19) 23667-23676

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/96JD01623/abstract;jsessionid=599474C1CFD8A2B0A8DB7FEDDA7AD009.d01t04

Sjöskog M 2008. Plants around Gobabeb.

Website link:http://issuu.com/majasjoskog/docs/plants_around_gobabeb

Turner S Termite Research.

Website link:http://www.esf.edu/efb/turner/termitePages/termiteStruct.html

Augus D 2006. Ant Colony Optimisation: From Biological Inspiration to an Algorithmic Framework.

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