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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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Maclean GL 1976. Arid-zone ornithology in Africa and South America. Proceedings of the 16th International Ornithological Congress 468-480

Mazor E 1982. Rain recharge in the Kalahari - A note on some approaches to the problem. Journal of Hydrology 55 (1-4) 137-144

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1694(82)90124-X

Maclean GL 1970. Desert adaptations of sandgrouse. African Wildlife 24 7 - 15

Maclean GL 1968. Field studies on the sandgrouse of the Kalahari Desert. Living bird 7 209 - 235

Pickford M 2000. Fossil spider's webs from the Namib Desert and the antiquity of Seothyra (Araneae, Eresidae). Annales de Paléontologie 86 (3) 147-155

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0753-3969(00)80005-1

Maclean GL 1957. Nest of the Pallid Karoo Lark in the Namib Desert. Ostrich 28 124

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1957.9639304#.VRKK8Wc5ApE

Kasaona M 2004. Tree distribution, vegetative and regenerative growth of seedlings at two selected sites in the Kuiseb River. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 1 18-25

Website link:http://www.namscience.com.na/

Namib Rand Nature Reserve - Newsletter: The Barking Gecko.

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

Kaseke KF, Mills AJ, Henschel J, Seely MK, Esler K, Brown R 2012. The effects of desert pavements (gravel mulch) on soil micro-hydrology. Pure and Applied Geophysics 169 (5-6) 873-880

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00024-011-0367-2

Kohler SA, Wiesel I, Roux J-P, Kemper J, Underhill LG 2012. Marine nutrients imports to the Namib desert through large terrestrial carnivores and wind-blown detritus on the southern Namibian coast. Diamond Route Research Conference, 30 -31 October 2012

Website link:http://www.diamondroute.com

Louw GN 1971. Water economy of certain Namib Desert animals. South African Journal of Science 67 (3) 119 - 123

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Tree AJ, Boorman M 2006. A mini tern expedition to the central Namibian coast in October-December 2005. Afring News 35 (1) 9-12

Website link:http://safring.adu.org.za/afring_news.php

Williams AJ 2006. The status of the Curlew Sandpipers Calidris ferruginea on the Namib coast. The annual cycle of the Curlew Sandpiper-International Wader Studies 19 156-159

Website link:http://www.waderstudygroup.org/publications/iws/

Miller RMcG 2014. Evidence for the evolution of the Kalahari dunes from the Auob River, southeastern Namibia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 69 (3) 195-204

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2014.955555

Moll E, Moll A, Picker M, Ross-Gillespie V, Swart R, Smuts S, Xaba P 2011. Seed-collecting ants that run fairy rings around scientists or the mystery of the bare patches. Veld and Flora 97 (1) 27-29

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/veld/97/1/EJC113638

Moll E 2013. Keeping the Namib's sand sea at bay: feature. Veld and Flora 99 (4) 189-191

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/veld/99/4/EJC145535

van Jaarsveld E 2008. Desert grapes: an expedition to the remote reaches of the southern Namib: Namib flora. Veld and Flora 94 (2) 82-86

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van Jaarsveld E 2009. Kleinduimpie grass: Dregeochloa pumila, the only succulent grass in the world: Namib desert flora. Veld and Flora 95 (1) 19-21

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/veld/95/1/EJC113328

Seely MK, Henschel JR 2003. Best practices in the world's oldest desert. Conserving Biodiversity in Arid Regions 119-128

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-0375-0_9

Soderberg K, Henschel J, Macko SA 2008. Effects of aridity and fog deposition on C3/CAM Photosynthesis and N-cycling in Welwitschia mirabilis.

Website link:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AGUFM.B23C0439S

Macko S, Soderberg K, Henschel J, Billmark K, Swap R 2010. Linking fog water use by plants in the coastal Namib Desert to carbon and nitrogen cycles along aridity gradients.

Website link:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFM.B51A0291M

Henschel JR, Tilson R, von Blottnitz F 1979. Implications of a spotted hyaena bone assemblage in the Namib Desert. The South African Archaeological Bulletin 34 (130) 127-131

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3887873

Henschel JR, Lubin YD 1997. A test of habitat selection at two spatial scales in a Sitand-Wait Predator: A web spider in the Namib Desert dunes. Journal of Animal Ecology 66 (3) 401-413

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/5985

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

Polis GA, Barnes JD, Seely MK, Henschel JR, Enders MM 1998. Predation as a major cost of reproduction in Namib Desert tenebrionid beetles. Ecology 79 (7) 2560-2566

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079%5B2560:PAAMCO%5D2.0.CO;2/full

van Zinderen Bakker EM 1975. The origin and palaeoenvironment of the Namib Desert biome. Journal of Biogeography 2 (2) 65-73

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3038074

Robinson MD 1990. Summer field energetics of the Namib desert dune lizard Aporosaura anchietae (Lacertidae), and its relation to reproduction. Journal of Arid Environments 18 (2) 207-215

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216814047_Summer_field_energetics_of_the_Namib_Desert_dune_lizard_Aporosaura_anchietae_Lacertidae_and_its_relation_to_reproduction

Nagy KA, Clarke BC, Seely MK, Mitchell D, Lighton JRB 1991. Water and energy balance in Namibian desert sand-dune lizards Angolosaurus skoogi (Andersson, 1916.). Functional Ecology 5 (6) 731-739

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2389535

Lawrence RF 1966. New dune spiders (Sparassidae) from the Namib Desert, South West Africa. Cimbebasia 17 3-15

Website link:http://archives.unam.edu.na/index.php/lawrence-r-f-new-dune-spiders-sparassidae-from-namib-desert-wouth-west-africa-r-f-lawrence-windhoek-administration-1966

Henschel JR, Lubin YD 1992. Environmental factors affecting the web and activity of a psammophilous spider in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 22 173-189

Website link:http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201301759097

Steckel J, Penrith ML, Henschel J, Brandl R, Meyer J 2010. A preliminary molecular phylogeny of the Namib Desert darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae). African Zoology 45 107-114

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2010.11657259

Harvey TS, Lavranos JJ 2011. Aloe argenticauda and Aloe pachygaster - Two vegetatively similar Aloe species from the winter rainfall highlands of southern Namibia. Cactus and Succulent Journal 83 (1) 43-46

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.2985/0007-9367-83.1.43

Branch WR, Bauer AM, Jackman TR, Heinicke M 2011. A New Species of the Pachydactylus weberi Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Namibrand Reserve, Southern Namibia. Breviora 524 1-15

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Williamson G 2011. A new Drimia sp. from the Namib Desert in Namibia. Cactus and Succulent Journal 83 (6) 286-289

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.2985/0007-9367-83.6.286

Giovanni C, Conti E 2013. Opening and closing of burrows by the Namibian spider Ariadna sp. (Araneae: Segestriidae) in a year of heavy rainfall. The Journal of Arachnology 41 (2) 215-218

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/23610292

Evans JS, Eifler DA, Eifler MA 2017. Sand-diving as an escape tactic in the lizard Meroles anchietae. Journal of Arid Environments 140 1-5

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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196317300058

Levinson O 1972. The wonder-world of the Namib. Lantern 21 3

Tarnita CE, Bonachela JA, Sheffer E, Guyton JA, Coverdale TC, Long RA, Pringle RM 2017. A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns. Nature 541 398-401

Website link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v541/n7637/full/nature20801.html

Vogel JC 1982. The age of the Kuiseb River silt terrace at Homeb. Palaeoecology of Africa and the surrounding islands 15 201-210

Tilson RL, Norton PM 1981. Alarm duetting and pursuit deterrence in an African antelope. The American Naturalist 118 (3) 455-462

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2460649

Appleton CC, Brain C 1992. The gastro-intestinal parasites of the baboon, Papio cynocephalus ursinus, in the Namib Desert. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 33 (3) 257-265

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1995.tb00803.x/abstract

Scholz H 1968. Die Böden der Wüste Namib/Südwestafrika. Zeitschrift für Pflanzenernährung und Bodenkunde 119 (2) 91-107

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jpln.19681190202/abstract

Burney DA, Brook GA, Cowart JB 1994. A Holocene pollen record for the Kalahari Desert of Botswana from a U-series dated speleothem. The Holocene 4 (3) 225-232

Website link:http://hol.sagepub.com/content/4/3/225.abstract

Gil-Romera G, Scott L, Marais E, Brook GA 1991. Holocene environmental changes in Namibia inferred from pollen analysis of swamp and lake deposits. The Holocene 16 (8) 1073-1084

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Website link:http://hol.sagepub.com/content/16/8/1073.abstract

Chase BM, Meadows ME, Scott L, Thomas DSG, Marais E, Sealy J, Reimer PJ 2009. A record of rapid Holocene climate change preserved in hyrax middens from southwestern Africa. Geology 37 (8) 703-706

Website link:http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/8/703.abstract

Rössl R 2000. Reproduktionsbiologie, Entwicklungsbiologie und Ökologie von sympatrischen Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera: Insecta) des Kuiseb bei Gobabeb in der Namib Wüste / Namibia.

Website link:http://d-nb.info/960963324

Platnick NI, Griffin E 1988. On the first African and Australian spiders of the genus Cyrioctea (Araneae: Zodariidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 96 (3) 359-362

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25009699

McKee ED 1982. Sedimentary structures in dunes of the Namib Desert, South West Africa.

Website link:https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/309/sedimentary-structures-in-dunes-of-the-namib

Marsh AC 1985. Thermal responses and temperature tolerance in a diurnal desert ant, Ocymyrmex barbiger. Physiological Zoology 58 (6) 629-636

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/30156067

Marden JH 1987. In pursuit of females: following and contest behavior by males of a Namib Desert tenebrionid beetle, Physadesmia globosa. Ethnology 75 (1) 15-24

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1987.tb00638.x/abstract