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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

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

Barnes JI, MacGregor J, Weaver LC 2002. Economic efficiency and incentives for Change within Namibia's community wildlife use initiatives. World Development 30 (4) 667-681

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X01001346

Novelli M, Barnes JI, Humavindu M 2006. The other side of the ecotourism coin: consumptive tourism in southern Africa. Journal of Ecotourism 5 (1-2) 62-79

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14724040608668447#.UdvyDtzwBFo

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

Turner S Termite Research.

Website link:http://www.esf.edu/efb/turner/termitePages/termiteStruct.html

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

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

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/

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

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

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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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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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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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

van Heerden PDR, Krüger GHJ, Louw MK 2007. Dynamic responses of photosystem II in the Namib Desert shrub, Zygophyllum prismatocarpum, during and after foliar deposition of limestone dust. Environmental Pollution 146 (1) 34-45

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749106003988

El-Ghani MMA 1998. Environmental correlates of species distribution in arid desert ecosystems of eastern Egypt. Journal of Arid Environments 38 (2) 297-313

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397903232

Summer Desertification Programme (SDP).

Website link:http://www.drfn.info:81/

List of publications of the 'Etosha Research Group' at the University of Regensburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

Website link:http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_III/Geographie/phygeo/leris/publikationen1.htm

Arid Lands Newsletter.

Website link:http://ag.arizona.edu/oals/ALN/ALNHome.html

Eppley SM, Wenk EH 2001. Reproductive biomass allocation in the dioecious perennial Acanthosicyos horrida. South African Journal of Botany 67 (1) 10 - 14

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Website link:http://www.nisc.co.za/oneAbstract?absId=52

Schefuß E, Kuhlmann H, Mollenhauer G, Prange M, Pätzold J 2011. Forcing of wet phases in southeast Africa over the past 17,000 years. Nature 480 509 - 512

Website link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7378/full/nature10685.html?WT_ec=

Skarpe C 1991. Spatial patterns and dynamics of woody vegetation in an arid savanna. Journal of Vegetation Science 2 565 - 572

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/3236039/abstract

Dougill A, Cox J 1995. Land degradation and grazinh in the Kalahari new analysis and alternative perspectives.

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Skarpe C 1990. Structure of the woody vegetation in disturbed and undisturbed arid savanna, Botswana. Vegetation 87 (1) 11 - 18

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/v2110803718x1241/

Shi N, Dupont LM, Beug H-J, Schneider R 1998. Vegetation and climate changes during the last 21 000 years in S.W. Africa based on a marine pollen record. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 7 127 - 140

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/nt270542383g3kh1/