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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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Higgins S, Bond WJ, Trollope WSW 2000. Fire, resprouting and variability: a recipe for grass-tree coexistence in savanna. Journal of Ecology 88 213-229
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2648525
Kojwang HO 2000. Wood fuels review and assessment :Namibia Country Report.
Website link:http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/x6797e/X6797E00.htm
Midgley JJ, Bond WJ 2001. A Synthesis of the demography of African acacias. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17 (06) 871-886
Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=52344CE5821E3BDFCFD6B02645288EBC.journals?fromPage=online&aid=90803
Viljoen PJ, Bothma J du P 1990. The influence of desert-dwelling elephants on vegetation in the northern Namib Desert, South West Africa/Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 18 (1) 85-96
Website link:http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19900643010.html;jsessionid=C7B0A8A58D66C00F46B16827C02C07EC
Bond WJ, Midgley GF, Woodward FI 2003. The importance of low atmospheric CO2 and fire in promoting the spread of grasslands and savannas. Global Change Biology 9 973-982
Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00577.x/abstract
Scholes RJ, Kendall J, Justice CO 1996. The quantity of biomass burned in southern Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 101 (D19) 23667-23676
Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/96JD01623/abstract;jsessionid=599474C1CFD8A2B0A8DB7FEDDA7AD009.d01t04
Sjöskog M 2008. Plants around Gobabeb.
Website link:http://issuu.com/majasjoskog/docs/plants_around_gobabeb
Augus D 2006. Ant Colony Optimisation: From Biological Inspiration to an Algorithmic Framework.
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Muser B, Sommer S, Wolf H, Wehner R 2005. Foraging ecology of the thermophilic Australian desert ant, Melophorus bagoti. Australian Journal of Zoology 53 (5) 301-311
Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/ZO05023.htm
The Homeb silts in the Namib Desert. Planetary Science Institute.
Website link:http://www.psi.edu/about/staff/mbourke/bourkeprojects/Homeb1.html
Bourke MC, Child A, Stokes S 2003. Optical age estimates for hyper-arid fluvial deposits at Homeb, Namibia. Quaternary Science Reviews 22 (10-13) 1099-1103
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379103000854
Ward JD 1987. The Cenozoic succession in the Kuiseb Valley, central Namib Desert.
Website link:http://www.iucat.iu.edu/catalog/93163
Lemons J 2006. Conserving dryland biodiversity: Science and policy. Science and Development Network
Website link:http://www.scidev.net/en/policy-briefs/conserving-dryland-biodiversity-science-and-policy.html
Milton SJ, Dean WRJ 2000. Disturbance, drought and dynamics of desert dune grassland, South Africa. Plant Ecology 150 (1-2) 37-51
Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1026585211708
Diester-Haass L, Meyers PA 1992. The Benguela Current and associated upwelling on the southwest African Margin: a synthesis of the Neogene-Quaternary sedimentary record at DSDP sites 362 and 532. Geological Society 64 331-342
Website link:http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/64/1/331.abstract
Hay WW, Brock JC 1992. Temporal variation in intensity of upwelling off southwest Africa. Geological Society 64 463-497
Website link:http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/64/1/463.abstract
Meyers PA 1992. Organic matter variations in sediments from DSDP sites 362 and 532: evidence of changes in the Benguela Current upwelling System. Geological Society 64 323-329
Website link:http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/64/1/323.abstract
Bagguley J, Prosser S 1999. The interpretation of passive margin depositional processes using seismic stratigraphy: examples from offshore Namibia. Geological Society 153 321-344
Website link:http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/153/1/321.abstract
Dingle RV 1973. The geology of the continental shelf between Luderitz and Cape Town (Southwest Africa), with special reference to Tertiary strata. Journal of the Geological Society 129 (4) 337-362
Website link:http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/content/129/4/337.abstract
Roy DP, Boschetti L 2009. Southern Africa Validation of the MODIS, L3JRC and GlobCarbon Burned-Area Products. Geoscience and Remote Sensing 47 (4) 1032-1044
Website link:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=4799182&sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A4804105%29=
Werger MJA 1978. Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa. Monographiae Biologicae 31
Website link:http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-009-9951-0/page/2
Armstrong S 1990. Fog, wind and heat: life in the Namib desert. New Scientist 127 (1725) 46-50
Website link:https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12717253-800/
Spriggs A WWF. Deserts and xeric shrublands. Africa: Namibia. Prepared by: Amy Spriggs.
Website link:http://worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/at1315
Burke A 2001. Determining landscape function and ecosystem dynamics: contribution to ecological restoration in the southern Namib desert. Ambio 30 (1) 29-36
Website link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11351790
Bohata K, Koppelmann R 2013. Chaetognatha of the Namibian Upwelling Region: Taxonomy, Distribution and Trophic Position. Plos ONE 8 (1) e53839
Website link:http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0053839
Olivier J 1992. Some spatial and temporal aspects of fog in the Namib. SA Geographer 19 (1/2) 108-126
Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/11741
Maun MA 2009. The Biology of Coastal Sand Dunes.
Website link:http://www.nhbs.com/the_biology_of_coastal_sand_dunes_tefno_156611.html
Kinahan J, Kinahan JHA 2010. The Namib Desert Archaeological Survey. Antiquity 084 (325)
Website link:http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/kinahan325/
McClain E, Seely MK, Hadley NF, Gray V 1985. Wax Blooms in Tenebrionid Beetles of the Namib Desert: Correlations with Environment. Ecology 66 (1) 112-118
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1941311?uid=4&sid=21102338722657
Benito G, Rohde R, Seely M, Kulls C, Dahan O, Enzel Y, Todd S, Botero B, Morin E, Grodek T, Roberts C 2010. Management of Alluvial Aquifers in Two Southern African Ephemeral Rivers: Implications for IWRM. Water Resources Management 24 (4) 641-667
Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11269-009-9463-9
Henschel JR, Seely MK 2008. Ecophysiology of atmospheric moisture in the Namib Desert. Atmospheric Research 87 (3-4) 362-368
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Ebner M, Miranda T, Roth-Nebelsick A 2011. Efficient fog harvesting by Stipagrostis sabulicola (Namib dune bushman grass). Journal of Arid Environments 75 (6) 524-531
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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196311000061
Fielden LJ, Perrin MR, Hickman GC 1990. Feeding ecology and foraging behaviour of the Namib Desert golden mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Journal of Zoology 220 367-389
Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1990.tb04313.x/abstract
Wassenaar TD, Henschel JR, Pfaffenthaler MM, Mutotaa EN, Seely MK, Pallett J 2013. Ensuring the future of the Namib's biodiversity: Ecological restoration as a key management response to a mining boom. Journal of Arid Environments 93 126-135
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Ensuring the future of the Namibs biodiversity.pdf 533.57 KB
Hermann H-W, Branch WR 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93 94-115
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Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist.pdf 716.91 KB
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312001516
Jacobson PJ, Jacobson KM 2013. Hydrologic controls of physical and ecological processes in Namib Desert ephemeral rivers: Implications for conservation and Management. Journal of Arid Environments 93 80-93
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Hydrologic controls of physical and ecological processes in Namib Desert ephemeral rivers.pdf 1015.63 KB
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312000420
Jürgens N, Oldeland J, Hachfeld B, Erb E, Schultz C 2013. Ecology and spatial patterns of large-scale vegetation units within the central Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 93 59-79
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312002522
Stone AEC, Thomas D 2013. Casting new light on late Quaternary environmental and palaeohydrological change in the Namib Desert: A review of the application of optically stimulated luminescence in the Region. Journal of Arid environments 93 40-58
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312000419
Livingstone I 2013. Aeolian geomorphology of the Namib Sand Sea. Journal of Arid Environments 93 30-39
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312002315
Viles HA, Goudie AS 2013. Weathering in the central Namib Desert, Namibia: Controls, processes and implications. Journal of Arid Environments 93 20-29
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196311002862
Eckardt FD, Soderberg K, Coop LJ, Muller AA, Vickery KJ, Grandin RD, Jack C, Kapalanga TS, Henschel J 2013. The nature of moisture at Gobabeb, in the central Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 93 7-19
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312000432
Henschel JR, Lancaster N 2013. Gobabeb – 50 years of Namib Desert Research. Journal of Arid Environments 93 116-125
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312002583
Kojwang HO, Chakanga M 2002. Trees outside forests: Namibia. Trees outside forests, transmitting a universal lore 189-195
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Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG, Bangert B, Grill H 2000. Tuffs, tectonism and glacially related sea-level changes, Carboniferous-Permian, southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 161 (1-2) 127-150
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018200001206
Smith RMH, Mason TR, Ward JD 1993. Flash-flood sediments and ichnofacies of the Late Pleistocene Homeb Silts, Kuiseb River, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 85 (1-4) 579-599
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/003707389390103C
Holzförster F, Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG 1999. Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments in the Waterberg-Erongo area, central Namibia, and correlation with the main Karoo Basin, South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29 (1) 105-123
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536299000834
Smith RMH, Mason TR 1998. Sedimentary environments and trace fossils of tertiary Oasis deposits in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia. Palaios 13 (6) 547-599
Website link:http://palaios.geoscienceworld.org/content/13/6/547.short
Marker ME 1977. A Long-Return Geomorphic Event in the Namib Desert, South West Africa. Area 9 (3) 209-213
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20001237?uid=4&sid=21102177069711
Heine K Chapter 3: Climate reconstructions based on fluvial deposits in hyper-arid desert Environments in. African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution, Palaeoecology of Africa 30
Website link:http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/b10542-4
Hughes DA, Sami K 1992. Transmission losses to alluvium and associated moisture dynamics in a semi-arid ephemeral channel system in Southern Africa. Hydrological Processes 6 (1) 45-53
Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.3360060105/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley%20Online%20Library%20will%20be%20disrupted%20on%2011%20May%20from%2010%3A00-12%3A00%20BST%20%2805%3A00-07%3A00%20EDT%29%20for%20essential%20maintenance
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