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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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Meinertzhagen R 1950. The Namib of South West Africa. Ibis 92 (4) 567-573

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1950.tb01764.x/abstract

Clinning CF 1981. Birds of the Namib. SWA Annual

Brenneman RA, Louis EF, Fennessy J 2009. Genetic structure of two populations of the Namibian giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis. African Journal of Ecology 47 (4) 720-728

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01078.x/abstract

Fennessy J 2009. Home range and seasonal movements of Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis in the northern Namib Desert. African Journal of Ecology 47 (3) 318-327

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Brook GA, Srivastava P, Marais E 2006. Characteristics and OSL minimum ages of relict fluvial deposits near Sossus Vlei, Tsauchab River, Namibia, and a regional climate record for the last 30?ka. Journal of Quaternary Science 21 (4) 347-362

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Krapf CBE, Stanistreet IG, Stollhofen H 2005. Morphology and Fluvio-Aeolian Interaction of the Tropical Latitude, Ephemeral Braided-River Dominated Koigab Fan, North-West Namibia. Fluvial Sedimentology VII

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444304350.ch6/summary

Bauer AM, Good DA 1996. Phylogenetic systematics of the day geckos, genus, Rhoptropus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), of south-western Africa. Journal of Zoology 238 (4) 635-663

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1996.tb05420.x/abstract

Burke A 2008. How sampling effort affects biodiversity measures in an arid succulent karoo biodiversity hotspot. African Journal of Ecology 46 (4) 488-499

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2007.00884.x/abstract

Burke A 2005. Endemic plants of the arid succulent karoo in Namibia: towards hypotheses for their evolution. Ecography 28 (2) 171-180

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0906-7590.2005.04143.x/abstract

Bullard JE, White K, Livingstone I 2011. Morphometric analysis of aeolian bedforms in the Namib Sand Sea using ASTER data. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 36 (11) 1534-1549

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.2189/abstract

Lubin Y, Henschel JR, Baker MB 2001. Costs of aggregation: shadow competition in a sit-and-wait predator. Oikos 95 (1) 59-68

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.950107.x/abstract

Henschel JR 1994. Diet and foraging behaviour of huntsman spiders in the Namib dunes (Araneae: Heteropodidae). Journal of Zoology 234 (2) 239-251

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1994.tb06072.x/abstract

Berger J 1997. Population Constraints Associated with the Use of Black Rhinos as an Umbrella Species for Desert Herbivores. Conservation Biology 11 (1) 69-78

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.95481.x/abstract

Fielden LJ, Hickman GC, Perrin MR 1992. Locomotory activity in the Namib Desert golden mole Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Journal of Zoology 226 (2) 329-344

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1992.tb03843.x/abstract

Enders MM, Schüle H, Henschel JR 1998. Sexual Dimorphism, Fighting Success and Mating Tactics of Male Onymacris plana Péringuey (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the Namib Desert. Ethology 104 (12) 1003-1019

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1998.tb00049.x/abstract

Dickman CR 1995. Diets and habitat preferences of three species of crocidurine shrews in arid southern Africa. Journal of Zoology 237 (3) 499-514

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1995.tb02777.x/abstract

Henschel JR 1995. Tool Use by Spiders: Stone Selection and Placement by Corolla Spiders Ariadna (Segestriidae) of the Namib Desert. Ethology 101 (3) 187-199

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1995.tb00357.x/abstract

Hanrahan SA, Kirchner WH 1994. Acoustic Orientation and Communication in Desert Tenebrionid Beetles in Sand Dunes. Ethology 97 (1-2) 26-32

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1994.tb01026.x/abstract

Fielden LJ 1991. Home range and movements of the Namib Desert golden mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Journal of Zoology 223 (4) 675-686

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb04396.x/abstract

Livingstone I 2003. A twenty-one-year record of surface change on a Namib linear dune. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 28 (9) 1025-1031

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.1000/abstract

Livingstone I 1989. Monitoring surface change on a Namib linear dune. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 14 (4) 317-332

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.3290140407/abstract

Bothma J du P, Nel JAJ, MacDonald A 1984. Food niche separation between four sympatric Namib Desert carnivores. Journal of Zoology 202 (3) 327-340

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1984.tb05086.x/abstract

Hulley GC, Hook SJ, Manning E, Lee S-Y, Fetzer E 2009. Validation of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) version 5 land surface emissivity product over the Namib and Kalahari deserts. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (1984-2012) 114 (D19) 16

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2009JD012351/abstract

Nel JAJ, Bothma J du P 1983. Scent marking and midden use by aardwolves (Proteles cristatus) in the Namib Desert. African Journal of Ecology 21 (1) 25-39

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1983.tb00310.x/abstract

Prendini L, Esposito LA 2010. A reanalysis of Parabuthus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) phylogeny with descriptions of two new Parabuthus species endemic to the Central Namib gravel plains, Namibia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159 (3) 673-710

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00608.x/abstract

Lindeque M, Lindeque PM 1991. Satellite tracking of elephants in northwestern Namibia. African Journal of Ecology 29 (3) 196-206

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1991.tb01002.x/abstract

Viljoen PJ 1989. Spatial distribution and movements of elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the northern Namib Desert region of the Kaokoveld, South West Africa/Namibia. Journal of Zoology 219 (1) 1-19

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1989.tb02561.x/abstract

Gess FW, Gess SK 1999. The use by wasps, bees and spiders of shells of Trigonephrus Pilsb. (Mollusca: Gasteropoda: Dorcasiidae) in desertic winter-rainfall areas in southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 43 (2) 143-153

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196399905499

van Heerden PDR, Krüger GHJ, Louw MK Long-term effects of limestone dust deposition on photosynthesis in the desert shrub Zygophyllum prismatocarpum. South African Journal of Botany 73 (2) 317

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629907001433

Danin A 1996. Adaptations of Stipagrostis species to desert dunes. Journal of Arid Environments 34 (3) 297-311

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396901111

The Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape.

Website link:http://www.landscapesnamibia.org/sossusvlei-namib/

Pickford M 1997. Lower Miocene Suiformes from the northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia, including new evidence for the systematic position of the Sanitheriidae. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 325 (4) 285-292

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1251805097883024

Stokes S, Haynes G, Thomas DSG, Horrocks JL, Higginson M, Malifa M 1998. Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 137 (3-4) 305-322

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018297001065

Telfer MW, Thomas DSG 2007. Late Quaternary linear dune accumulation and chronostratigraphy of the southwestern Kalahari: implications for aeolian palaeoclimatic reconstructions and predictions of future dynamics. Quaternary Science Reviews 26 (19-21) 2617-2630

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737910700193X

Maphangwa KW, Musil CF, Raitt L, Zedda L 2012. Differential interception and evaporation of fog, dew and water vapour and elemental accumulation by lichens explain their relative abundance in a coastal desert. Journal of Arid Environments 82 71-80

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312000535

Nicolson SW 1991. Diuresis or clearance: Is there a physiological role for the "diuretic hormone" of the desert beetle Onymacris?. Journal of Insect Physiology 37 (6) 447-452

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191091900544

Hanrahan SA, Nicolson SW 1987. Ultrastructure of the malpighian tubules of Onymacris plana plana peringuey (Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae). International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology 16 (2) 99-119

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0020732287900110

Watson A 1986. Grain-size variations on a longitudinal dune and a barchan dune. Sedimentary Geology 46 (1-2) 49-66

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0037073886900059

Schenk K, Suhling F, Martens A 2004. Egg distribution, mate-guarding intensity and offspring characteristics in dragonflies (Odonata). Animal Behaviour 68 (3) 599-606

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347204002131

Egbert KJ, Martin CE 2000. Light penetration via leaf windows does not increase photosynthesis in three species of desert succulents. Journal of Plant Physiology 157 (5) 521-525

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176161700801078

Rundel PW, Cowling RM 2013. Biodiversity of the Succulent Karoo. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Second Edition 485-490

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123847195002264

Hesp PA, Hastings K 1998. Width, height and slope relationships and aerodynamic maintenance of barchans. Geomorphology 22 (2) 193-204

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X97000706

Tilson RL, Hamilton III WJ 1984. Social dominance and feeding patterns of spotted hyaenas. Animal Behaviour 32 (3) 715-724

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347284801475

Narins PM, Lewis ER, Jarvis JJUM, O'Riain J 1997. The Use of Seismic Signals by Fossorial Southern African Mammals: A Neuroethological Gold Mine. Brain research Bulletin 44 (5) 641-646

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361923097002864

Zhu B, Yu J 2014. Aeolian sorting processes in the Ejina desert basin (China) and their response to depositional environment. Aeolian Research 12 111-120

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963713001031

Muhs DR 2004. Mineralogical maturity in dunefields of North America, Africa and Australia. Geomorphology 59 (1-4) 247-269

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X03003271

Swanepoel JW, Krüger GHJ, van Heerden PDR 2007. Effects of sulphur dioxide on photosynthesis in the succulent Augea capensis Thunb.. Journal of Arid Environments 70 (2) 208-221

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196307000183

Chase BM, Thomas DSG 2007. Multiphase late Quaternary aeolian sediment accumulation in western South Africa: Timing and relationship to palaeoclimatic changes inferred from the marine record. Quaternary International 166 (1) 29-41

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618206003247

Goudie AS, Parker AG 1998. Experimental simulation of rapid rock block disintegration by sodium chloride in a foggy coastal desert. Journal of Arid Environments 40 (4) 347-355

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398904657

Bourke MC 2010. Barchan dune asymmetry: Observations from Mars and Earth. Icarus 205 (1) 183-197

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103509003819