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A wide, open, comparatively barren tract of land with few forms of life and little rainfall. (Source: MGH)

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Burke A 2002. Properties of soil pockets on arid Nama Karoo inselbergs-the effect of geology and derived landforms. Journal of Arid Environments 50 (2) 219 - 234

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196301909073

Burke A 2002. Plant communities of a Central Namib inselberg landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science 13 (4) 483 - 492

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236733

Burke A 2002. Island-matrix relationship in Nama Karoo inselberg landscapes. Part II: Are some inselbergs better sources than others?. Plant Ecology 158 41 - 48

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/islandmatrix-relationships-in-nama-karoo-inselberg-landscapes-part-ii-are-some-inselbergs-better-sources-than-others/

Burke A 2003. How special are Etendeka mesas? Flora and elevation gradients in an arid landscape in north-west Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 55 (4) 747 - 764

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302002938

Burke A 2004. From plains to inselbergs: Species in special habitats as indicators for climate change?. Journal of Biogeography 31 831 - 841

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00984.x/full

Burke A 2001. Classification and ordination of plant communities of the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Journal of Vegetation Science 12 (1) 53 - 60

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236673

Burke A 2004. Range management systems in arid Namibia - what can livestock numbers tell us?. Journal of Arid Environments 59 (2) 387 - 408

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196304000345

Burke A 1995. Geigeria alata in the Namib desert: Seed heteromorphism in an extremely arid environment. Journal of Vegetation Science 6 (4) 473 - 478

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236345

Bungartz F, Wirth V 2006. Uellia peregrina sp. Nov., A new, euendolithic calcicolous lichen species from the Namib Desert. The Lichenologist 39 (01) 41 - 45

Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online%26aid%3D611572

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

Hauffe HC, Pietruszka RD, Seely MK 1988. Observations on the behaviour of Onymacris laeviceps Gebien (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae>: Adesmiini) in the central Namib Desert dunes. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 51 (2) 183 - 192

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/observations-behaviour-onymacris-laeviceps-gebien-coleoptera-tenebrionidae-adesmiini-central-namib-desert-dunes/

Desert Research Institute (DRI).

Website link:http://websearch-x.dri.edu/search?q=Namibia&site=default_collection&client=dri_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=dri_frontend

DESERTEC Foundation.

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

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

Viljoen PJ 1989. Habitat selection and preferred food plants of a desert-dwelling elephant population in the northern Namib Desert, South West Africa/Namibia. African Journal of Ecology 27 (3) 227 - 240

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1989.tb01016.x/abstract

Gobabeb Training and Research Centre.

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

Braby R, Braby SJ, Simmons RE 1992. 5000 Damara Terns in the Northern Namib Desert - a reassessment of world-population numbers. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 63 (2-3) 133-135

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1992.9633964#.VRz5lmf9kpE

NamibRand Nature Reserve - Weather.

Website link:http://www.namibrand.org/Weather.htm

NamibRand Nature Reserve - Herbarium.

Website link:http://www.namibrand.org/NRNR_Herbarium/index.htm

NamibRand Nature Reserve.

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

Seely MK 1991. Namibia: drought and desertification.

Simmons RE 1993. A census of the desert-breeding Damara Tern Sterna balaenarum in Namibia. 1 – 4

Website link:http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=1994/BE/BE94003.xml%3BBE9400555

Biodiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa (BIOTA).

Website link:http://www.biota-africa.org/contact_south_ba.php

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

Website link:http://www.unccd.int/

DRFN Library and Resource Centre.

Website link:http://www.drfn.org.na/htm/publications/pub_library_information.htm

Namibia Desertification.

Website link:http://www.namibia-desertification.org/

Desert Lion Conservation.

Website link:http://www.desertlion.info/

Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN).

Website link:http://www.drfn.org.na/

Griffin M 1998. The species diversity, distribution and conservation of Namibian mammals. Biodiversity and Conservation 7 483 - 494

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1008875511827

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

Müller M 1994. Namibia: Exploring Africa's living desert.

Kinahan J 1992. Pastoral nomads of the central Namib Desert.

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/524774

Kinahan J 1986. The archaeological structure of pastoral production in the central Namib Desert. South African Archaeological Society 5 69 - 82

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3858149

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

Hoesch W 1959. Cryptic colouring of the groundbirds of the Namib Desert. Proceedings of the 1st Pan-African Ornithological Congress 154-156

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1959.9633323#.VGMu9lItBHg

Jensen RAC Breeding biology of the Black Vulture Torgos tracheliotus in the Namib Desert Park.

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

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

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

Bryden HA 1892. The Kalahari. 2067 246

Winterbottom JM 1980. The avifauna of the Namib Desert. Proceedings of the 4th Pan-African Ornithological Congress 109-111

Winterbottom JM 1969. On the birds of the Sandveld Kalahari of South West Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 40 (4) 182 - 204

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1969.9634346#.VIqalWctBHg

Willoughby EJ 1947. Water economy of Stark's Lark and Grey-backed Finch Lark from the Namib Desert of South West Africa. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 27 723 - 745

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010406X68906142

Willoughby EJ 1968. Desert adaptations of larks of the central Namib Desert, South West Africa. Dissertation Abstracts 28 (11)

Werger MJA 1986. The Karoo and southern Kalahari. Ecosystems of the world. Hot deserts and arid shrublands 283 - 359

Walter H 1986. The Namib Desert. Ecosystems of the world: Hot deserts and arid shrublands 245-282

Vinjevold C 1987. Whitebacked Vulture breeding in the Namib Desert. Vulture News 18 15

Website link:http://www.iucn-vulturenews.org/

Tilson RL 1981. A dry river in a thirsty land.

Tilson RL 1977. Palewinged Starlings and Klipspringers in the Kuiseb Canyon, Namib Desert Park. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 48 (3-4) 110 - 111

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1977.9634088#.VRurAGf9kpE

Thomas DH 1984. Adaptations of desert birds, Sandgrouse (Pteroclidae) as highly successful inhabitants of Afro-Asian arid lands. Journal of Arid Environments 7 157 - 181

Siegfried WR 1984. Group size of Cape Turtle Doves at desert waterholes. Proceedings of the 5th Pan-African Ornithological Congress 745-752