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Clutton-Brock TH, Hodge SJ, Flower TP 2008. Group size and the suppression of subordinate reproduction in Kalahari meerkats. Animal Behaviour 76 689-700

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347208002005

Madden JR, Kunc HJP, English S, Manser MB, Clutton-Brock TH 2009. Do meerkat (Suricata suricatta) pups exhibit strategic begging behaviour and so exploit adults that feed at relatively high rates?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63 (9) 1259-1268

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00265-009-0777-7

Totolo O, Chanda R 2003. Environmental change and sustainability issues in the Kalahari region. Journal of Arid Environments 54 (2) 257-259

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302910888

Dougill AJ, Thomas DSG, Heathwaite AL 1999. Environmental change in the Kalahari: integrated land degradation studies for Nonequilibrium dryland environments. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89 (3) 420-442

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0004-5608.00156/abstract

Thomas DSG, Sporton D, Perkins J 2000. The environmental impact of livestock ranches in the Kalahari, Botswana: natural resource use, ecological change and human response in a dynamic dryland system. Land Degradation and Development 11 (4) 327-341

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1099-145X(200007/08)11:4%3C327::AID-LDR395%3E3.0.CO;2-V/abstract

Makhabu SW, Marotsi B, Perkins J 2002. Vegetation gradients around artificial water points in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve of Botswana. African Journal of Ecology 40 (2) 103-109

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2028.2002.00306.x/abstract

Weber GE, Jeltsch F, van Rooyen N, Milton SJ 1998. Simulated long-term vegetation response to grazing heterogeneity in semi-arid rangelands. Journal of Applied Ecology 35 (5) 687-699

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2664.1998.355341.x/abstract

Twyman C, Sporton D, Thomas DSG 2004. 'Where is the life in farming?': The viability of smallholder farming on the margins of the Kalahari, Southern Africa. Geoforum 35 (1) 69-85

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718503000307

Dougill A, Reed M 2005. Participatory Indicator Development for Sustainable Natural Resource Management: Kalahari, Botswana. Methods in Development Research: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches 163-176

Website link:http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~lecajd/Publics.htm

Hitchcock RK 2003. Land, Livestock and Leadership among the Ju/'hoansi San of North Western Botswana. Anthropologica 45 (1) 89-94

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25606116

Hitchcock RK Sip-wells: A Labor-Intensive Method of Water Collection in the Kalahari. Journal of Arid Environments

Website link:https://www.msu.edu/~hitchc16/

Hitchcock RK 1978. Kalahari Cattle Posts: A Regional Study of Hunter-Gatherers, Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in the Western Sandveld Region, Central District, Botswana.

Website link:http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1230476

Bartholomew GA, White FN, Howell TR 1976. The thermal significance of the nest of the Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius: Summer observations. Ibis 118 (3) 402 - 411

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1976.tb02027.x/abstract

Wallgren M, Skarpe C, Bergström R, Danell K, Bergström A, Jakobsson T, Karlsson K, Strand T 2009. Influence of land use on the abundance of wildlife and livestock in the Kalahari, Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 73 (3) 314 - 321

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308002826

van Rooyen AF 1998. Combating desertification in the southern Kalahari: Connecting science with community action in South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 285 - 297

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398904074

Zimmermann I, Graz FP, Berry MH, Imasiku NNT, Muroua ND, Sibalatani MM, Sikopo CS 2001. Quantified range condition assessment of open Camelthorn savanna along a degradation gradient. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 18 (2 - 3) 111 - 116

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10220110109485763

Verlinden A, Laamanen R 2006. Modeling woody vegetation resources using Landsat TM imagery in northern Namibia. South African Forestry Journal 207 27 - 39

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10295920609505250

Verlinden A 1997. Human settlements and wildlife distribution in the southern Kalahari of Botswana. Biological Conservation 82 (2) 129 - 136

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320796001565

Thomas DSG, O'Connor PW, Bateman MD, Shaw PA, Stokes S, Nash DJ 2000. Dune activity as a record of late Quaternary aridity in the Northern Kalahari: New evidence from northern Namibia interpreted in the context of regional arida and humid chronologies. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 156 243 - 259

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00143-1

Spriggs A 2001. Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands (AT0709).

Website link:https://secure.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0709_full.html

Skarpe C 1991. Spatial patterns and dynamics of woody vegetation in an arid savanna. Journal of Vegetation Science 2 565 - 572

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/3236039/abstract

Palmer AR, van Rooyen AF 1998. Detecting vegetation change in the southern Kalahari using Landsat TM data. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 143 - 153

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398903998

Dougill A, Cox J 1995. Land degradation and grazinh in the Kalahari new analysis and alternative perspectives.

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Nash DJ 1996. On the Dry Valleys of the Kalahari: Documentary Evidence of Environmental Change in Central southern Africa. The Geographical Journal 162 (2) 154 - 168

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3059873

Katjiua M, Ward D 2007. Pastoralists perceptions and realities of vegetationchange and browse consumption in the northern Kalahari, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 69 (4) 716 - 730

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306004204

Hüttich C, Herold M, Strohbach BJ, Dech S 2011. Integrating in-situ, Landsat, and MODIS data for mapping in Southern African savannas: Experiences of LCCS-based land-cover mapping in the Kalahari in Namibia. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 176 (1 - 4) 531 - 547

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/8274n71420g2t2ww/

Hüttich C, Herold M, Wegmann M, Cord A, Strohbach B, Schmullius C, Dech S 2011. Assessing effects of temporal compositing and varying observation periods for large-area land-cover mapping in semi-arid ecosystems: Implications for global monitoring. Remote Sensing of Environment 115 (10) 2445 - 2459

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425711001775

Colditz RR, Keil M, Strohbach B, Geßner U, Schmidt M, Dech S 2007. Vegetation structure mapping with remote sensing time series: Capabilities and improvements. 2007

Website link:http://elib.dlr.de/66563/

Caylor KK, Shugart HH, Rodriguez-Iturbe I 2005. Tree Canopy Effects on Simulated Water Stress in Southern African Savannas. Ecosystems 8 (1) 17 - 32

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/ua4fjykycexgx5y1/

Bullard JE, Nash D 2000. Valley-marginal sand dunes in the south-west Kalahari: Their nature, classification and possible origins. Journal of Arid Environments 45 (4) 369 - 383

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300906463

Blaum N, Rossmanith E, Popp A, Jeltsch F 2007. Shrub encroachment affects mammalian carnivore abundance and species richness in semiarid rangelands. Acta Oecologica 31 (1) 86 - 92

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1146609X06001214

Berkeley A, Thomas AD, Dougill AJ 2005. Cyanobacterial soil crusts and woody shrub canopies in Kalahari rangelands. African Journal of Ecology 43 137 - 145

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Peischl S Geologische Übersicht.

Website link:http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/studenten/namibia/namex_hp/geologie.htm

Schneider E, Sanders J, von Willert D 2006. Devil's Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens) from Southern Africa. Sustainable use by cultivation combined with controlled harvesting in semiwild populations.

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Main M 1987. The Kalahari: Life's variety in dune and delta.

Research Results of the Department of Hydrogeology and Environment.

Website link:http://www.hydrogeologie-wuerzburg.de/projects/kolleg_e.htm

Aranibar JN, Otter L, Macko SA, Feral CJW, Epstein HE, Dowty PR, Eckardt F, Shugart HH, Swap RJ 2004. Nitrogen cycling in the soil-plant system along precipitation gradient in the Kalahari sands. Global Change Biology 10 (3) 359 - 373

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1961

Scholes RJ, Dowty PR, Caylor K, Parsons DAB, Frost PGH, Shugart HH 2002. Trends in savanna structure and composition along an aridity gradient in the Kalahari. Journal of Vegetation Science 13 (3) 419 - 428

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2027

Rösner S, Giesselmann UC, Meyer J, Schwager M, Wiegand T, Lück-Vogel M, Brandl R 2010. Coloniality of birds in the Kalahari - spatial distribution of trees and nests of the Sociable Weaver (Philetairus socius). Biodiversity in southern Africa 2 179-183

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4830

Kalahari Peoples Fund.

Website link:http://www.kalaharipeoples.org/

Thomas DSG, Shaw PA 1991. The Kalahari environment.

Shaw PA, Thomas DSG 1988. Lake Caprivi: A late Quaternary link between the Zambezi and middle Kalahari drainage systems. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, NF 32 (3) 329 - 337

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233388729_Lake_Caprivi_a_late_Quaternary_link_between_the_Zambezi_and_Middle_Kalahari_drainage_systems

Shaw PA, Cooke HJ 1986. Geomorphic evidence for the late Quaternary paleoclimates of the middle Kalahari of northern Botswana. Catena 13 (4) 349 - 359

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/0341-8162(86)90009-3

Arad A 1984. Relationship of salinity of groundwater to recharge in the southern Kalahari Desert. Journal of Hydrology 71 225 - 238

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022169484900982

Maclean GL 1969. The breeding seasons of birds in the south-western Kalahari. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 40 (1) 179 - 192

Maclean GL 1971. Larks of the Kalahari. African Wildlife 25 144 - 147

Roberts A 1932. Some results of the Kalahari expedition. 5 36 - 38

Paxton M 1988. Foraging associations between Pale Chanting Goshawks, honey badgers and slender mongooses. Gabar 3 82 - 84

Debenham F 1952. The Kalahari today. Geographical Journal 118 (1) 12-21

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1791232

Crous R, Tebele P 1995. A Buffspotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans in the central Kalahari. Babbler 29/30 38 - 39

Website link:http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/publications.html