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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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Willis SG, Hole DG, Collingham YC, Hilton G, Rahbek C, Huntley B 2009. Assessing the Impacts of Future Climate Change on Protected Area Networks: A Method to Simulate Individual Species' Responses. Environmental Management 43 (5) 836-845

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-008-9125-3

Jürgens N 2001. Remarkable Differences in Desertification Processes in the Northern and Southern Richtersveld (Northern Namaqualand, Republic of South Africa). Sustainable Land Use in Deserts 177-187

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-59560-8_18

Eccles NS, Esler KJ, Cowling RM 1999. Spatial pattern analysis in Namaqualand desert plant communities: evidence for general positive interactions. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 71-85

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1009857824912

Milton SJ 1991. Plant spinescence in arid southern Africa: does moisture mediate selection by mammals?. Oecologia 87 (2) 279-287

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00325267

Allanson BR, Hart RC, O'Keeffe JH, Robarts RD 1989. The regional limnology of southern Africa. Inland Waters of Southern Africa: An Ecological Perspective 64 27-62

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-2382-9_4

Taylor HC 1978. Capensis. Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa 31 171-229

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-9951-0_8

Schmiedel U, Jürgens N 2004. Habitat ecology of southern African quartz fields: studies on the thermal properties near the ground. Plant Ecology 170 (2) 153-166

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Hamilton WJ 1985. Demographic consequences of a food and water shortage to desert Chacma Baboons, Papio ursinus. International Journal of Primatology 6 (5) 451-462

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02735570

Joubert EC, Harms TM, Muller A, Hipondoka M, Henschel JR 2012. A CFD study of wind patterns over a desert dune and the effect on seed dispersion. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 12 (1) 23-44

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10652-011-9230-3

Birkhofer K, Henschel J, Lubin Y 2012. Effects of extreme climatic events on small-scale spatial patterns: a 20-year study of the distribution of a desert spider. Oecologia 170 (3) 651-657

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-012-2342-8

Jürgens N, Gotzmann IH, Cowling RM 1999. Remarkable medium-term dynamics of leaf succulent Mesembryanthemaceae shrubs in the winter-rainfall desert of northwestern Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 87-96

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Schmiedel U, Jürgens N 1999. Community structure on unusual habitat islands: quartz-fields in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 57-69

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1009818210799

Leistner OA, Werger MJA 1973. Southern kalahari phytosociology. Vegetatio 28 (5-6) 353-399

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02386499

Burke A 2005. Vegetation types of mountain tops in Damaraland, Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 14 (6) 1487-1506

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-004-9788-x

Clousley-Thompson JL 1991. Avoidance of Environmental Extremes. Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles 29-51

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75337-4_3

Breckle S-W, Yair A, Veste M 2008. General Conclusions – Sand Dune Deserts, Desertification, Rehabilitation and Conservation. Arid Dune Ecosystems 200 441-459

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-75498-5_30

Lubke RA 2013. Restoration of Dune Ecosystems Following Mining in Madagascar and Namibia: Contrasting Restoration Approaches Adopted in Regions of High and Low Human Population Density. Restoration of Coastal Dunes 199-215

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33445-0_13

Veste M, Heusinkveld BG, Berkowicz SM, Breckle S-W, Littmann T, Jacobs AFG 2008. Dew Formation and Activity of Biological Soil Crusts. Arid Dune Ecosystems 200 305-318

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-75498-5_21

Clousley-Thompson JL 1996. Community Processes. Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands 127-167

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-60977-0_7

Dupont LM, Behling H, Jahns S, Marret F, Kim J-H 2007. Variability in glacial and Holocene marine pollen records offshore from west southern Africa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 16 (2-3) 87-100

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-006-0080-8

Clousley-Thompson JL 1991. Interspecific Relationships, Feeding Specializations and Species Diversity. Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles 147-168

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75337-4_8

Mignon P 2010. Spitzkoppe: The World of Granite Landforms. Geomorphological Landscapes of the World 155-162

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_16

Phillips J 1956. Aspects of the ecology and productivity of some of the more arid regions of Southern and Eastern Africa. Vegetatio 7 (1) 38-68

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00578536

Skarpe C 1986. Plant community structure in relation to grazing and environmental changes along a north-south transect in the western Kalahari. Vegetatio 68 (1) 3-18

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00031575

Krumbach T 1916. Deutsch-Südwestafrika im Lichte biogeographisch-historischer Forschung. Naturwissenschaften 4 (26) 372-375

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01495956

Stanley WR 1990. A third port for Southwest Africa/Namibia?. GeoJournal 22 (3) 363-378

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00192836

Huntley BJ 1978. Ecosystem conservation in southern Africa. Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa 31 1333-1384

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-9951-0_41

Desmet PG, Cowling RM 1999. Biodiversity, habitat and range-size aspects of a flora from a winter-rainfall desert in north-western Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 23-33

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Biodiversity_habitat and range_size aspects of a flora from a winter-rainfall desert in north_western Namaqualand_South Africa.pdf	180.07 KB

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1009814109891

Goudie AS 2009. Global Deserts and Their Geomorphological Diversity. Geomorphology of Desert Environments 9-20

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-5719-9_2

Büdel B, Darienko T, Deutschewitz K, Dojani S, Friedl T, Mohr KI, Salisch M, Reisser W, Weber B 2009. Southern African Biological Soil Crusts are Ubiquitous and Highly Diverse in Drylands, Being Restricted by Rainfall Frequency. Microbial Ecology 57 (2) 229-247

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Southern African Biological Soil Crusts are Ubiquitous and Highly Diverse in Drylands.pdf	1.47 MB

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-008-9449-9

Walter H 1985. Zonobiome of the Subtropical Arid Climate with Deserts. Vegetation of the Earth and Ecological Systems of the Geo-biosphere 113-147

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-96859-4_5

Jürgens N 1997. Floristic biodiversity and history of African arid regions. Biodiversity and Conservation 6 (3) 495-514

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1018325026863

Cowling RM, Esler KJ, Rundel PW 1999. Namaqualand, South Africa – an overview of a unique winter-rainfall desert ecosystem. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 3-21

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Berry HH, Siegfried WR 1991. Mosaic-Like Events in Arid and Semi-Arid Namibia. The Mosaic-Cycle Concept of Ecosystems Ecological Studies 85 147-160

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75650-4_8

Kaseke KF, Mills AJ, Esler K, Henschel J, Seely MK, Brown R 2012. Spatial Variation of "Non-Rainfall" Water Input and the Effect of Mechanical Soil Crusts on Input and Evaporation. Pure and Applied Geophysics 169 (12) 2217-2229

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00024-012-0469-5

Eitel B, Blümel WD, Hüser K 2004. Palaeoenvironmental Transitions Between 22 ka and 8 ka in Monsoonally Influenced Namibia. Paleoecology of Quaternary Drylands: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 102 167-194

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-44930-0_10

Lancaster N 2009. Dune Morphology and Dynamics. Geomorphology of Desert Environments 557-595

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-5719-9_18

Ward D, Seely MK 1996. Competition and habitat selection in Namib desert tenebrionid beetles. Evolutionary Ecology 10 (4) 341-359

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01237722

Stomeo F, Valverde A, Pointing SB, McKay CP, Warren-Rhodes KA, Tuffin MI, Seely M, Cowan DA 2013. Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert. Extremophiles 17 (2) 329-337

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-013-0519-7

Werger JA 1978. The Karoo-Namib Region. Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa: Monographiae Biologicae 31 231-299

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-9951-0_9

Jürgens N 1991. A new approach to the Namib Region. Vegetation 97 (1) 21-38

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00033899

Jürgens N, Burke A 2000. The Arid Scenario: Inselbergs in the Namib Desert Are Rich Oases in a Poor Matrix (Namibia and South Africa). Inselbergs: Ecological Studies 146 237-257

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-59773-2_12

Viles H, Goudie A 2000. Weathering, Geomorphology and Climatic Variability in the Central Namib Desert. Advances in Global Change Research 6 65-82

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-306-48086-7_4

Goudie A 2010. Namib Sand Sea: Large Dunes in an Ancient Desert. Geomorphological Landscapes of the World 163-169

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_17

Eckardt FD, Drake N 2011. Introducing the Namib Desert Playas. Sabkha Ecosystems: Tasks for Vegetation Science 46 19-25

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-9673-9_3

Widlok T 2003. Institutional Dynamics of Changing Land Care Practices in the Central Namib Desert. How Institutions Change 205-228

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-322-80936-0_12

Zobeck TM 1991. Soil properties affecting wind erosion. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 46 (2) 112-118

Website link:http://www.jswconline.org/content/46/2/112.extract

Whitford WG, de Soyza AG, van Zee JW, Herrick JE, Havstad KM Vegetation, Soil, and Animal Indicators of Rangeland Health. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 51 (1-2) 179-200

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1005987219356

Seymour CL 2008. Grass, rainfall and herbivores as determinants of Acacia erioloba (Meyer) recruitment in an African savanna. Plant Ecology 197 (1) 131-138

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