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Petty SJ, Patterson IJ, Anderson DIK, Little B, Davison M 1995. Numbers, breeding performance, and diet of the Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus and Merlin Falco columbarius in relation to cone crops and seed-eating finches. Forest Ecology and Management 79 (1 - 2) 133 – 146

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378112795036245

Bollig M, Schulte A 1999. Environmental change and pastoral perceptions: Degradation and indigenous knowledge in two African pastoral communities. Human Ecology 27 (3) 493 - 514

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/4603331

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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Hakkarainen H, Korpimäki E 1996. Competitive and predatory interactions among raptors - an observational and experimental-study. Ecology 77 (4) 1134 – 1142

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/2265582/full

Urfi AJ, Gosscustard JD, Durell SEALD 1996. The ability of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus to compensate for lost feeding time - field studies on individually marked birds. Journal of Applied Ecology 33 (4) 873-883

Website link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2404958?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Steenhof K, Kochert MN, McDonald TL 1997. Interactive effects of prey and weather on Golden Eagle reproduction. Journal of Animal Ecology 66 (3) 350-362

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256975967_Interactive_Effects_of_Prey_and_Weather_on_Golden_Eagle_Reproduction

Sorley CS, Anderson DE 1994. Raptor abundance in south-central Kenya in relation to land-use patterns. African Journal of Ecology 32 (1) 30-38

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1994.tb00552.x/full

Usher MB 1991. Scientific requirements of a monitoring programme. Monitoring for Conservation and Ecology 15-32

Website link:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-011-3086-8_2

Jarvinen O, Vaisanen RA 1979. Changes in bird populations as criteria of environmental changes. Holarctic Ecology 2 (2) 75-80

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3682660

Miller RI, Stuart SN, Howell KM 1989. A methodology for analysing rare species distribution patterns utilizing GIS technology: the rare birds of Tanzania. Landscape Ecology 2 (3) 173-189

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00126017

Archibald S, Nickless A, Govender N, Scholes RJ, Lehsten V 2010. Climate and the inter-annual variability of fire in southern Africa: A meta-analysis using long-term field data and satellite-derived burnt area data. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19 794 - 809

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4580

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

Jeltsch F, Blaum N, Classen N, Eschenbach A, Grohmann C, Gröngröft A, Joubert DF, Horn A, Lohmann D, Linsenmair KE, Lück-Vogel M, Medinski TV, Meyfarth S, Mills A, Petersen A, Popp A, Poschlod P, Reisch C, Rossmanith E, Rubilar H, Wesuls D, Wichmann M, Wieczorek M, Zimmermann I 2010. Impacts of landuse and climate change on the dynamics and biodiversity in the Thornbush Savanna Biome. Biodiversity in southern Africa 3 33-74

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Pressey RL, Humphries CJ, Margules CR, Vane-Wright RI, Williams PH 1993. Beyond opportunism: key principles for systematic reserve selection. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8 (4) 124-128

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/016953479390023I

Osborne PE, Tigar BJ 1992. Interpreting bird atlas data using logistic models: An example from Lesotho, southern Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology 29 55 – 62

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2404347

Desert Lion Conservation.

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

Ministry of Local Government Land and Housing 1989. Ecological zoning for Okavango Delta. Internal report.

Merron GS, Bruton MN 1988. The ecology and management of the fishes of the Okavango delta, Botswana, with special reference to the role of the seasonal floods. Investigational report.

Thiollay J-M, Clobert J 1990. Comparative foraging adaptations of small raptors in a dense African savanna. Ibis 132 (1) 42 - 57

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1990.tb01015.x/abstract

Herremans M, Herremans-Tonnoeyr D 1996. Seasonal pattern of lanner falcon Falco biarmicus abundance in Botswana. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 67 (2) 83 - 84

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1996.9633788#.VRzpn2f9kpE

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

Vial MC 1994. The influence and effects of disturbance on the distribution, nest ecology, breeding biology and reproductive success of the African Skimmer Rynchops flavirostris in the Panhandle of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.

van Someren VD 1951. The redbilled oxpecker and its relation to stock in Kenya. East African Agricultural Journal 17 (1) 1 - 11

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03670074.1951.11664775

Brandl R, Utschick H, Schmidtke K 1985. Raptors and land-use systems in southern Africa. African Journal of Ecology 23 (1) 11 - 20

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1985.tb00707.x/abstract

Whyte IJ, Hall-Martin AJ, Kloppers JJ 1987. The status and distribution of the yellowbilled oxpecker in the Kruger national park. Ostrich 58 (2) 88 - 90

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1987.9634147#.VSZMoGf9kpE

Watkins BP, Cassidy RJ 1987. Evasive action taken by waterbuck to redbilled oxpeckers. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 58 (2) 90

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1987.9634147#.VSZMRGf9kpE

Hustler K 1987. Host preference of oxpeckers in the Hwange national park, Zimbabwe. African Journal of Ecology 25 (4) 241 - 245

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1987.tb01115.x/full

Hart BL, Hart LA, Mooring MS 1990. Differential foraging of oxpeckers on impala in comparison with sympatric antelope species. African Journal of Ecology 28 (3) 240 - 249

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1990.tb01157.x/abstract

Mooring MS, Mundy PJ 1996. Interactions between impala and oxpeckers at Matobo national park, Zimbabwe. African Journal of Ecology 34 (1) 54 - 65

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1996.tb00594.x/full

Mooring MS, Mundy PJ 1996. Factors influencing host selection by yellow-billed oxpeckers at Matobo national park, Zimbabwe. African Journal of Ecology 34 (2) 177 - 188

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1996.008-89008.x/abstract

Koenig WD 1997. Host preferences and behaviour of oxpeckers: Co-existence of similar species in a fragmented landscape. Evolutionary Ecology 11 (1) 91 - 104

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1018439614008

Clancey PA 1984. Geographical variation and post-breeding dispersal in Temminck's Courser of the Afrotropics. Le Gerfaut 74 361 - 374

Winterbottom JM 1966. Remarks on the avian ecology of North-Central South West Africa. Proceedings of the 2nd Pan-African Ornithological Congress. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 37 (Issue Supplement 1) 285-295

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1966.9639808

Vincent J 1988. Type locality of the Redbilled Francolin. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 59 (4) 182

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1988.9633729#.VSY-72f9kpE

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 1981. The estuarine avifauna of southern Africa. Estuarine ecology with particular reference to southern Africa 223-250

Website link:http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/fitz/publications/scientific/archive/1981

Sauer EGF, Sauer EM 1966. The behaviour and ecology of the South African Ostrich. Living Bird 5 45 - 75

Milewski AV 1976. Feeding ecology of the Slaty Egret Egretta vinaceigula. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 47 (2-3) 132 - 134

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1976.9639548#.VRumB2f9kpE

Maclean GL 1973. The Sociable Weaver. Part 5. Food, feeding and general behaviour. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 44 (3-4) 254 - 261

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1973.9639162#.VRpbGGf9kpE

Cooper-Bohannon R, Kasaona M, Bohannon K 2012. African Skies: the distribution, ecology and conservation of cave-dwelling bats in southern Africa. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 53 27-36

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

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

Kolowski JM, Holekamp KE 2009. Ecological and anthropogenic influences on space use by spotted hyaenas. Journal of Zoology 277 23-36

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00505.x/full

Darroch SAF, Boag TH, Racicot RA, Tweedt S, Mason SJ, Erwin DH, Laflamme M 2016. A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology In Press, Accepted Manuscript

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018216302383

Guillet A, Crowe TM 1985. Patterns of distribution, species richness, endemism and guild composition of waterbirds in Africa. African Journal of Ecology 23 89 - 120

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1985.tb00719.x/abstract

Sebego RJG 1999. The ecology and distribution limits of Colophospermum mopane in southern Africa. Botswana Notes and Records 31 53-72

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Dean WRJ, Milton SJ 1988. Dispersal of seeds by raptors. African Journal of Ecology 26 (2) 173 - 176

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1988.tb00967.x/abstract

Magurran AE 1988. Ecological Diversity and its Measurement.

Website link:http://www.springer.com/de/book/9789401573603

Moller AP, Magnhagen C, Ulfstrand A, Ulfstrand S 1995. Phenotypic quality and molt in the Barn Swallow, Hirundo rustica. Behavioral Ecology 6 (3) 242 - 249

Website link:http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/3/242.short

Simmons RE, Smith PC, Macwhirter RB 1986. Hierarchies among Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) harems and the costs of polygyny. Journal of Animal Ecology 55 (3) 755 - 771

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4414

Barnard P 1987. Foraging site selection by 3 raptors in relation to grassland burning in a montane habitat. African Journal of Ecology 25 (1) 35 - 45

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1987.tb01088.x/abstract