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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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Grodek T, Benito G, Botero BA, Jacoby Y, Porat N, Haviv I, Cloete G, Enzel Y 2013. The last millennium largest floods in the hyperarid Kuiseb River basin, Namib Desert. Journal of Quaternary Science 28 (3) 258-270

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.2618/abstract;jsessionid=576A1E3F5C8CB0B02B9A2C7FD89A2B90.d01t02?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 2001. Isotope techniques in water resource investigations in arid and semi-arid regions.

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Vogel JC, Van Urk H 1974. Isotopic composition of groundwater in semi-arid regions of southern Africa. Journal of Hydrology 25 (1-2) 23-36

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022169475900360

Robinson MD, Seely MK 1980. Physical and biotic environments of the southern Namib dune ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 3 (3) 183-203

Website link:http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19802606675.html;jsessionid=F6F8EDA82AF09F06CFE62C5D342E054D?gitCommit=4.13.29

Dean WRJ, Macdonald IAW 1994. Historical changes in stocking rates of domestic livestock as a measure of semi-arid and arid rangeland degradation in the Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 26 (3) 281-298

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196384710305

Nørgaard T, Ebner M, Dacke M 2012. Animal or Plant: Which Is the Better Fog Water Collector?. Plos ONE 7 (4) e34603

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Weber K, Ahrendt H 1983. Structural Development of the Ugab Structural Domain of the Northern Zone of the Damara Orogen. Intracontinental Fold Belts 699-721

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-69124-9_28

Martin H 1983. Alternative Geodynamic Models for the Damara Orogeny. A Critical Discussion. Intracontinental Fold Belts 913-945

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-69124-9_41

Hawkesworth CJ, Menzies MA, van Calsteren P 1986. Geochemical and tectonic evolution of the Damara Belt, Namibia. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 19 305-319

Website link:http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/19/1/305.abstract

Hachfeld B, Jürgens N 2000. Climate patterns and their impact on the vegetation in a fog driven desert: the central Namib Desert in Namibia. Phytocoenologia 30 (3-4) 567-589

Website link:https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/phyto/detail/30/80801/Climate_patterns_and_their_impact_on_the_vegetation_in_a_fog_driven_desert_The_Central_Namib_Desert_in_Namibia

van Rooyen N, Bredenkamp GJ, Theron GK, Bothma J du P, Le Riche EAN 1994. Vegetational gradients around artificial watering points in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Journal of Arid Environments 26 (4) 349-361

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196384710378

Clousley-Thompson JL 1990. Dunes of the Namib. Environmental Conservation 17 (1) 70-72

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0376892900017318

Grobbelaar JU, Seely MK 1980. The composition of water collected from the Kuiseb River, Namib Desert, at Gobabeb. Journal of the Limnological Society of southern Africa 6 (1) 46-48

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03779688.1980.9633207

Hulme M, Kelly M 1993. Exploring the links between Desertification and Climate Change. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 35 (6) 4-45

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00139157.1993.9929106

Yeaton RI 1990. The structure and function of the Namib Dune grasslands: species interactions. Journal of Arid Environments 18 (3) 343-349

Website link:http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19910743775.html

Okin GS, Roberts DA, Murray B, Okin WJ 2001. Practical limits on hyperspectral vegetation discrimination in arid and semiarid environments. Remote Sensing of Environment 77 (2) 212-225

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425701002073

Leprieur C, Kerr YH, Mastorchio S, Meunier JC 2000. Monitoring vegetation cover across semi-arid regions: Comparison of remote observations from various scales. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21 (2) 281-300

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014311600210830

Wilson AD, Tupper GJ 1982. Concepts and Factors Applicable to the Measurement of Range Condition. Journal of Range Management 35 (6) 684-689

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3898238

Lange OL, Meyer A, Zellner H, Heber U 1994. Photosynthesis and Water Relations of Lichen Soil Crusts: Field Measurements in the Coastal Fog Zone of the Namib Desert. Functional Ecology 8 (2) 253-264

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2389909

Schieferstein B, Loris K 1992. Ecological investigations on lichen fields of the Central Namib. Vegetation 98 (2) 113-128

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00045550

Yeaton RI 1998. Structure and Function of the Namib Dune Grasslands: Characteristics of the Environmental Gradients and Species Distributions. Journal of Ecology 76 (3) 744-758

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2260571

Gingele FX 1996. Holocene climatic optimum in Southwest Africa—evidence from the marine clay mineral record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 122 (1-4) 77-87

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018296000764

Pemadasa MA, Lovell PH 1975. Factors Controlling Germination of Some Dune Annuals. Journal of Ecology 63 (1) 41-59

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2258840

Rondeaux G, Steven M, Baret F 1996. Optimization of soil-adjusted vegetation indices. Remote Sensing of Environment 55 (2) 95-107

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0034425795001867

Eckardt F, White K 1997. Human induced disruption of stone pavement surf aces in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia: observations from Landsat Thematic Mapper. International Journal of Remote Sensing 18 (16) 3305-3310

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014311697216892

Burke A, Jürgens N, Seely MK 1998. Floristic affinities of an inselberg archipelago in the southern Namib desert—relic of the past, centre of endemism or nothing special?. Journal of Biogeography 25 (2) 311-317

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.252116.x/abstract

Wolski P, Savenije HHG, Murray-Hudson M, Gumbricht T 2006. Modelling of the flooding in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, using a hybrid reservoir-GIS model. Journal of Hydrology 331 (1-2) 58-72

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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169406002538

Murray-Hudson M, Wolski P, Ringrose S 2006. Scenarios of the impact of local and upstream changes in climate and water use on hydro-ecology in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Journal of Hydrology 331 (1-2) 73-84

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002216940600254X

McCarthy TS 2006. Groundwater in the wetlands of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and its contribution to the structure and function of the ecosystem. Journal of Hydrology 320 (3-4) 264-282

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169405003501

Roever CL, van Aarde RJ, Leggett K 2012. Functional responses in the habitat selection of a generalist mega-herbivore, the African savannah elephant. Ecography 35 972-982

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07359.x/abstract

Gilabert MA, González-Piqueras J, Garci´a-Haro FJ, Meliá J 2002. A generalized soil-adjusted vegetation index. Remote Sensing of Environment 82 (2-3) 303-310

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425702000482

Theseira MA, Argandona G, Sannier CAD 2002. An evaluation of spectral mixture modelling applied to a semi-arid environment. International Journal of Remote Sensing 23 (4) 687-700

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160010019652

Moleele N, Ringrose S, Arnberg W, Lunden B, Vanderpost C 2001. Assessment of vegetation indexes useful for browse (forage) prediction in semi-arid rangelands. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22 (5) 741-756

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160051060147

Schmidt H, Karnieli A 2001. Sensitivity of vegetation indices to substrate brightness in hyper-arid environment: the Makhtesh Ramon Crater (Israel) case study. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22 (17) 3503-3520

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160110063779

Serneels S, Said MY, Lambin EF 2001. Land cover changes around a major east African wildlife reserve: the Mara Ecosystem ( Kenya). International Journal of Remote Sensing 22 (17) 3397-3420

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160152609236

Lockwood JA, Lockwood DR 1993. Catastrophe Theory: A unified paradigm for rangeland ecosystem dynamics. Journal of Range Management 46 (4) 282-288

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4002459

Smith JH, Stehman SV, Wickham JD, Yang L 2003. Effects of landscape characteristics on land-cover class accuracy. Remote Sensing of Environment 84 (3) 342-349

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425702001268

Lancaster N 2002. How dry was dry?-Late Pleistocene palaeoclimates in the Namib Desert. Quaternary Science Reviews 21 (7) 769-782

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379101001263

Heine K 2004. Flood reconstruction in the Namib Desert, Namibia and little ice age climatic implications: evidence from slackwater deposits and Desert soil sequences. Journal Geological Society of India 64 (04) 353-547

Website link:http://www.geosocindia.org/ViewArticle.aspx

Southgate RI, Masters P, Seely MK 1996. Precipitation and biomass changes in the Namib Desert dune ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 33 (3) 267-280

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396900646

Olivier J 1995. Spatial distribution of fog in the Namib. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (2) 129-138

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305800849

Abrams MM, Jacobson PJ, Jacobson KM, Seely MK 1997. Survey of soil chemical properties across a landscape in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 35 (1) 29-38

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196385701395

Trumbull RB, Vietor T, Hahne K, Wackerle R, Ledru P 2004. Aeromagnetic mapping and reconnaissance geochemistry of the Early Cretaceous Henties Bay-Outjo dike swarm, Etendeka Igneous Province, Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 40 (1-2) 17-29

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536204000818

Viles HA, Taylor MP, Nicoll K, Neumann S 2007. Facies evidence of hydroclimatic regime shifts in tufa depositional sequences from the arid Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 195 (1-2) 39-53

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073806002053

Srivastava P, Brook GA, Marais E, Morthekai P, Singhvi AK 2006. Depositional environment and OSL chronology of the Homeb silt deposits, Kuiseb River, Namibia. Quaternary Research 65 (3) 478-491

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589406000123

Dougill AJ, Thomas DSG, Heathwaite AL 1999. Environmental change in the Kalahari: integrated land degradation studies for Nonequilibrium dryland environments. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89 (3) 420-442

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0004-5608.00156/abstract

Krogh SN, Zeisset MS, Jackson E, Whitford WG 2002. Presence/absence of a keystone species as an indicator of rangeland health. Journal of Arid Environments 50 (3) 513-519

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196301909000

Rapport DJ 1998. Biodiversity, and saving the earth. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 49 (2-3) 169-175

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1005865718918?LI=true

Cowling RM, Dlamini TS, Stock WD 1999. Plant Induced Fertile Islands as Possible Indicators of Desertification in a Succulent Desert Ecosystem in Northern Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1/2 The Plant Ecology of Namaqualand, South Africa (Jun., 1999)) 161-167

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/20050782

Cammeraat LH, Imeson AC 1998. Deriving indicators of soil degradation from soil aggregation studies in southeastern Spain and southern France. Geomorphology 23 (2-4) 307-321

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X98000129