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ecosystem research

Study of the ways in which plants, animals, and microbes interact with each other and with their physical environment and of the processes involving the circulation, transformation and accumulation of both matter, especially nutrient materials, and energy. (Source: CULTER / PARCORa)


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Sako A, Mills AJ, Roychoudhury AN 2009. Rare earth and trace element geochemistry of termite mounds in central and northeastern Namibia: Mechanisms for micro-nutrient accumulation. Geoderma 153 (1-2) 217-230
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706109002596
Teller JT, Rutter N, Lancaster N 1990. Sedimentology and paleohydrology of Late Quaternary lake deposits in the northern Namib Sand Sea, Namibia. Quaternary Science Reviews 9 (4) 343-364
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277379190900278
Hofmann C-C, Rice AHN 2010. Leaf-jams - A new and unique leaf deposit in the ephemeral Hoanib River, NW Namibia: Origin and plant taphonomic implications. International Journal of Coal Geology 83 (2) 195-203
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166516209001530
de Beer Y, van Aarde RJ 2008. Do landscape heterogeneity and water distribution explain aspects of elephant home range in southern Africa's arid savannas?. Journal of Arid Environments 72 (11) 2017-2025
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308001869
O'Connor TG, Goodman PS, Clegg B 2007. A functional hypothesis of the threat of local extirpation of woody plant species by elephant in Africa. Biological Conservation 136 (3) 329-345
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Boelhouwers J, Scheepers T 2004. The role of antelope trampling on scarp erosion in a hyper-arid environment, Skeleton Coast, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 58 (4) 545-557
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196303001769
Campos-Arceiz A, Blake S 2011. Megagardeners of the forest - the role of elephants in seed dispersal. Acta Oecologica 37 (6) 542-553
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1146609X11000154
Lancaster N 2013. Dune Fields / Low Latitudes. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Second Edition) 623-636
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444536433001539
Wesuls D, Pellowski M, Suchrow S, Oldeland J, Jansen F, Dengler J 2013. The grazing fingerprint: Modelling species responses and trait patterns along grazing gradients in semi-arid Namibian rangelands. Ecological Indicators 27 61-70
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X12003883
Joubert DF, Smit GN, Hoffman MT 2013. The influence of rainfall, competition and predation on seed production, germination and establishment of an encroaching Acacia in an arid Namibian savanna. Journal of Arid Environments 91 7-13
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019631200300X
Germs GJB 1995. The Neoproterozoic of southwestern Africa, with emphasis on platform stratigraphy and paleontology. Precambrian Research 73 (1-4) 137-151
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0301926894000753
Pulfrich A, Branch GM 2013. Using diamond-mined sediment discharges to test the paradigms of sandy-beach ecology. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science In Press
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272771413003430
Emeis K-C, Brüchert V, Currie B, Endler R, Ferdelman T, Kiessling A, Leipe T, Noli-Peard K, Struck U, Vogt T 2004. Shallow gas in shelf sediments of the Namibian coastal upwelling ecosystem. Continental Shelf Research 24 (6) 627-642
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278434304000275
Garzanti E, Ando S, Vezzoli G, Lustrino M, Boni M, Vermeesch P 2012. Petrology of the Namib Sand Sea: Long-distance transport and compositional variability in the wind-displaced Orange Delta. Earth- Sciences Reviews 112 (3-4) 173-189
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825212000190
Tsoar H 2013. Critical environments: sand dunes and climate change. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 414-427
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123747396003146
Wiggs GFS 2013. Dune morphology and dynamics. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 201-218
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123747396003043
Lancaster N 2013. Sand seas and dune fields. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 219-245
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123747396003055
Medinski TV, Mills AJ, Esler KJ, Schmiedel U, Jürgens N 2010. Do soil properties constrain species richness? Insights from boundary line analysis across several biomes in south western Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 74 (9) 1052-1060
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310000844
Bourke MC, Goudie AS 2009. Varieties of barchan form in the Namib Desert and on Mars. Aeolian Research 1 (1-2) 45-54
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963709000123
Oldeland J, Wesuls D, Rocchini D, Schmidt M, Jürgens N 2010. Does using species abundance data improve estimates of species diversity from remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity?. Ecological Indicators 10 (2) 390-396
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X09001241
Weaver CM, Wiggs GFS 2011. Field measurements of mean and turbulent airflow over a barchan sand dune. Geomorphology 128 (1-2) 32-41
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X10005519
Zedda L, Gröngröft A, Schultz M, Petersen A, Mills A, Rambold G 2011. Distribution patterns of soil lichens across the principal biomes of southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (2) 215-220
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Distribution patterns of soil lichens across the principal biomes of southern Africa.pdf 1017.4 KB
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310002739
Heymans JJ, Sumaila UR, Christensen V 2009. Policy options for the northern Benguela ecosystem using a multispecies, multifleet ecosystem model. Progress in Oceanography 83 (1-4) 417-425
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007966110900069X
Summons RE, Hope JM, Swart R, Walter MR 2008. Origin of Nama Basin bitumen seeps: Petroleum derived from a Permian lacustrine source rock traversing southwestern Gondwana. Organic Geochemistry 39 (5) 589-607
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0146638007002677
Koopmann H, Franke D, Schreckenberger B, Schulz B, Hartwig A, Stollhofen H, di Primo R 2014. Segmentation and volcano-tectonic characteristics along the SW African continental margin, South Atlantic, as derived from multichannel seismic and potential field data. Marine and Petroleum Geology 50 22-39
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264817213002687
Lange G-M, Mungatana E, Hassan R 2007. Water accounting for the Orange River Basin: An economic perspective on managing a transboundary resource. Ecological Economics 61 (4) 660-670
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800906004587
Carter KD, Seddon JM, Frère CH, Carter JK, Goldizen AW 2013. Fission–fusion dynamics in wild giraffes may be driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences. Animal Behaviour 85 (2) 385-394
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347212005246
Ludynia K, Kemper J, Roux J-P 2012. The Namibian Islands' Marine Protected Area: Using seabird tracking data to define boundaries and assess their adequacy. Biological Conservation 156 136-145
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320711004320
Merron GS 1993. The diversity, distribution and abundance of the fishes in the Moremi Wildlife Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 23 (4) 115-122
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The diversity_distribution and abundance of the fishes in the Moremi Wildlife Reserve_Okavango Delta.pdf 1.36 MB
Website link:http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/wild_v23_n4_a6
Shaw P 1985. The Desiccation of Lake Ngami: An Historical Perspective. The Geographical Journal 151 (3) 318-326
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/633012
The Okavango Research Group.
Website link:http://www.wits.ac.za/academic/science/geosciences/research/okavango/6499/the_okavango_research_group.html
McCarthy TS, Franey NJ, Ellery WN, Ellery K 1993. The use of SPOT imagery in study of environmental processes of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. South Africa Journal of Science 89 (9) 432-436
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The use of SPOT imaginary in the study of environmental processes of the Okavango Delta.pdf 447.91 KB
Hamandawana H, Eckardt F, Chanda R 2005. Linking archival and remote sensed data for long term environmental monitoring. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 7 (4) 284-298
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243405000632
Mackay AW, Davidson T, Wolski P, Woodward S, Mazebedi R, Masamba WRL, Todd M 2012. Diatom sensitivity to hydrological and nutrient variability in a subtropical, flood-pulse wetland. Ecohydrology 5 (4) 491-502
Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eco.242/abstract
McGranahan DA 2008. Managing private, commercial rangelands for agricultural production and wildlife diversity in Namibia and Zambia. Biodiversity and Conservation 17 (8) 1965-1977
Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10531-008-9339-y
Dauteuil O, Deschamps F, Bourgeois O, Mocquet A, Guillocheau F 2013. Post-breakup evolution and palaeotopography of the North Namibian Margin during the Meso-Cenozoic. Tectonophysics 589 103-115
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195113000048
du Plessis WP 1999. Linear regression relationships between NDVI, vegetation and rainfall in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 42 (4) 235-260
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196399905050
Oldeland J, Dorigo W, Lieckfeld L, Lucieer A, Jürgens N 2010. Combining vegetation indices, constrained ordination and fuzzy classification for mapping semi-natural vegetation units from hyperspectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 114 (6) 1155-1166
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425710000258
Leggett K, Fennessy J, Schneider S 2005. Flood-borne sediment analysis of the Hoanib River, northwestern Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 62 (4) 587-596
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019630500042X
Rouby D, Bonnet S, Guillocheau F, Gallagher K, Robin C, Biancotto F, Dauteuil O, Braun J 2009. Sediment supply to the Orange sedimentary system over the last 150 My: An evaluation from sedimentation/denudation balance. Marine and Petroleum Geology 26 (6) 782-794
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264817208001426
Ribas F, Falques A, van den Berg N, Caballeria M 2013. Modeling shoreline sand waves on the coasts of Namibia and Angola. International Journal of Sediment Research 28 (3) 338-348
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S100162791360044X
Krapf CBE, Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG 2003. Contrasting styles of ephemeral river systems and their interaction with dunes of the Skeleton Coast erg (Namibia). Quaternary International 104 (1) 41-52
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618202001349
Hipondoka MHT, Mauz B, Kempf J, Packman S, Chiverrell RC, Bloemendaal J 2014. Chronology of sand ridges and the Late Quaternary evolution of the Etosha Pan, Namibia. Geomorphology 204 (1) 553-563
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X13004418
Brook GA, Marais E, Srivastava P, Jordan T 2007. Timing of lake-level changes in Etosha Pan, Namibia, since the middle Holocene from OSL ages of relict shorelines in the Okondeka region. Quaternary International 175 (1) 29-40
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618207001450
Zeidler J, Robertson M, Klintenberg P 1999. Measurement and monitoring of environmental change through indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem function.
Kangombe FN, Strohbach BJ 2008. Vegetation mapping and description of Ogongo Agricultural Farm and surrounds. South African Journal of Botany 74 (2) 387-388
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629908001518
Chase BM, Meadows ME, Carr AS, Reimer PJ 2010. Evidence for progressive Holocene aridification in southern Africa recorded in Namibian hyrax middens: Implications for African Monsoon dynamics and the "African Humid Period". Quaternary Research 74 (1) 36-45
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589410000438
Blümel WD, Eitel B, Lang A 1998. Dunes in southeastern Namibia: evidence for Holocene environmental changes in the southwestern Kalahari based on thermoluminescence data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 138 (1-4) 139-149
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018297001144
Diester-Haass L, Heine K, Rothe P, Schrader H 1988. Late Quaternary history of continental climate and the Benguela Current off South West Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 65 (1-2) 81-91
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018288901149
Moser-Nørgaard PM, Denich M 2011. Influence of livestock on the regeneration of fodder trees along ephemeral rivers of Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (4) 371-376
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310003186
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