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Naidu SG, Hattingh J 1988. Water balance and osmoregulation in Physadesmia globosa, a diurnal tenebrionid beetle from the Namib desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 34 (10) 911-917

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191088901266

Dacke M, Baird E, Byrne M, Scholtz CH, Warrant EJ Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation. 23 4 (298-300) 2013

Website link:http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982212015072

Irwin ME, Kirk-Spriggs AH 1998. Species composition and flight phenology of stiletto flies and window flies occurring along the Kuiseb River, Gobabeb, Namibia.

Website link:http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/research/therevid/namibia.html

Day JA 1993. The major ion chemistry of some southern African saline Systems. Developments in Hydrobiology 87 37-59

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-011-2076-0_4

Day JA, Seely MK 1988. Physical and chemical conditions in an hypersaline spring in the Namib Desert. Hydrobiologia 160 (2) 141-153

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00015477

Nørgaard T, Dacke M 2010. Fog-basking behaviour and water collection efficiency in Namib Desert Darkling beetles. Frontiers in Zoology 7 23

Website link:http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/7/1/23

Hamilton III WJ, Penrith M-L 1977. Description of an individual possible hybrid tenebrionid beetle and the habitat preference of the parental species. The Canadian Entomologist 109 701-710

Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8554747

Eller BM, Ruess BR, Ferrari S 1991. Reestablishment of water uptake by succulents after drought: potometric field determinations in the Richtersveld. Botanica Helvetica 101 (2) 259-265

Website link:http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=5019367

Bornman CH, Butler V, Jensen WA 1979. Welwitschia mirabilis: Fine Structure of the Germinating Seed I. Orientation. Zeitschrift für Pflanzenphysiologie 91 (3) 189-196

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044328X7980094X

Whitaker CR, Pammenter NW, Berjak P 2007. Extreme desiccation- and heat-tolerance of desert seeds: A study on Welwitschia mirabilis. South African Journal of Botany 73 (3) 502

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629907002906

Kellenberger R, Kneubühler M, Kellenberger TW 2009. Spectral characterisation and mapping of Welwitschia mirabilis in Namibia. IEEE International, IGARSS 4 IV362-IV365

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Kellenberger TW, Kneubühler M 2009. Mapping of Welwitschia mirabilis with high resolution satellite imagery in the Namib desert. IEEE International, IGARSS 4 IV366-IV369

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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

Veiste M, Herppich WB, Willert DJ 2001. Variability of CAM in leaf-deciduous succulents from the Succulent Karoo (South Africa). Basic and Applied Ecology 2 (3) 283-288

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1078/1439-1791-00056

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

Barnard BJ 1979. The role played by wildlife in the epizootiology of rabies in South Africa and South-West Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 46 (3) 155-163

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Wesemeier HH, Odening K, Walter G, Bockhardt I 1995. The black-backed jackal (Carnivora: Canidae) in Namibia as intermediate host of two Sarcocystis species (Protozoa: Sarcocystidae). Parasite 2 (4) 391-394

Website link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8745738

Courtin F, Carpenter TE, Paskin RD, Chomel BB 2000. Temporal patterns of domestic and wildlife rabies in central Namibia stock-ranching area, 1986-1996. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 43 (1) 13-28

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167587799000835

Spitalska E, Riddell M, Heyne H, Sparagano OAE 2005. Prevalence of Theileriosis in Red Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus caama) in Namibia. Parasitology Research 97 (1) 77-79

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-005-1390-y

Turner WC, Getz WM 2010. Seasonal and Demographic Factors Influencing Gastrointestinal Parasitism in Ungulates of Etosha National Park. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46 (4) 1108-1119

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Turner WC, Versfeld WD, Kilian JW, Getz WM 2012. Synergistic effects of seasonal rainfall, parasites and demography on fluctuations in springbok body condition. Journal of Animal Ecology 81 (1) 58-69

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01892.x/abstract

Mansfield K, McElhinney L, Hübschle O, Mettler F, Sabeta C, Nel LH, Fooks AR 2006. A molecular epidemiological study of rabies epizootics in kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) in Namibia. BMC Veterinary Research 2:2

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Antoine D, Morel A 1999. A multiple scattering algorithm for atmospheric correction of remotely sensed ocean colour (MERIS instrument): principle and implementation for atmospheres carrying various aerosols including absorbing ones. International Journal of Remote Sensing 20 (9) 1875-1916

Website link:http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tres/1999/00000020/00000009/art00015

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

Lange OL 2002. Photosynthetic productivity of the epilithic lichen Lecanora muralis: Long-term field monitoring of CO2 exchange and its physiological interpretation. I. Dependence of photosynthesis on water content, light, temperature, and CO2 concentration from laboratory measurements. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 197 (4) 233-249

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253004700249

Lange OL 2003. Photosynthetic productivity of the epilithic lichen Lecanora muralis: long-term field monitoring of CO2 exchange and its physiological interpretation: III. Diel, seasonal, and annual carbon budgets. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 198 (4) 277-292

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253004700717

Lange OL 2003. Photosynthetic productivity of the epilithic lichen Lecanora muralis: long-term field monitoring of CO2 exchange and its physiological interpretation: II. Diel and seasonal patterns of net photosynthesis and respiration. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 198 (1) 55-70

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253004700523

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

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

Swan HK 1921. A synopsis of the Accipitres (diurnal birds of prey) comprising species and subspecies described up to 1920, with their characters and distribution.

Website link:http://archive.org/details/synopsisofaccipi00swannhk

Sibley CG, Ahlquist JE 1972. A Comparative Study of the Egg White Proteins of Non-Passerine Birds. Peabody Museum of Natural History 39

Website link:http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1286558W/A_comparative_study_of_the_egg_white_proteins_of_non-passerine_birds

Flora Zambesiaca.

Website link:https://www.nhbs.com/3/series/flora-zambesiaca

1905. The Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union. I and II

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Chapin JP 1917. The classification of the weaver-birds. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37 (9)

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1859

Winterbottom M, Burke T, Birkhead TR 2001. The Phalloid Organ, Orgasm and Sperm Competition in a Polygynandrous Bird: The Red-Billed Buffalo Weaver (Bubalornis niger). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50 (5) 474-482

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4601993

Vaurie C 1954. Systematic notes on Palearctic birds. No. 11, Sylviinae, the genus Sylvia. American Museum Novitates 1692

Website link:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/4958//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N1692.pdf?sequence=1

Vaurie C 1954. Systematic notes on Palearctic birds. No. 9, Sylviinae, the genus Phylloscopus. American Museum Novitates 1685

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/2246/4956

Roberts A 1914. Notes on birds in the collection of the Transvaal Museum, with descriptions of several new sub-species. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 4 (4) 169-179

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Ndithia H, Perrin MR 2006. Diet and foraging behaviour of the Rosy-faced Lovebird Agapornis roseicollis in Namibia. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 77 (1-2) 45-51

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/00306520609485507

Ndithia H, Perrin MR, Waltert M 2007. Breeding biology and nest site characteristics of the Rosy-faced Lovebird Agapornis roseicollis in Namibia. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 78 (1) 13-20

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/OSTRICH.2007.78.1.3.47

Oschadleus HD, Osborne T 2004. Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus biometrics and primary moult in Namibia. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 76 (3-4) 206-211

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/00306520509485494

Osborne T 2004. Sexual dimorphism in Rüppell's Korhaan Eupodotis rueppelli. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 75 (4) 317-319

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/00306520409485460

Rand AL 1968. Intra-relations of African canaries, genus Serinus. Fieldiana Zoology 51 (9)

Website link:http://www.archive.org/details/intrarelationsof519rand

Mecenero S, Kirkman SP, Roux J-P 2005. Seabirds in the diet of Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus at three mainland breeding colonies in Namibia. African Journal of Marine Science 27 (2) 509-512

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/18142320509504110

MacDonald JD 1952. Forms of the Red-cap Lark in Southern Africa. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 22 (1) 29-32

Website link:http://content.ajarchive.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/00411752&CISOPTR=380&REC=3

King AJ, Cowlishaw G 2008. Foraging opportunities drive interspecific associations between rock kestrels and desert baboons. Journal of Zoology 227 (2) 111-118

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00504.x/full

Jensen RAC 1975. Movements and bio-economics of migrant raptors in South West Africa. Emu 74 (5) 315

Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MU974313.htm