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Water droplets or, rarely, ice crystals suspended in the air in sufficient concentration to reduce visibility appreciably. (Source: MGH)

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Rodin RJ 1953. Distribution of Welwitschia mirabilis. Ameriacan Journal of Botany 40 (4) 280 - 285

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/2438668

Lange OL, Green TGA, Meyer A, Zellner H 2007. Water relations and carbon dioxide exchange of epiphytic lichens in the Namib fog desert. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 202 (6) 479 - 487

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253007000643

Lange OL, Green TGA, Melzera B, Meyera A, Zellner H 2006. Water relations and CO2 exchange of the terrestrial lichen Teloschistes capensis in the Namib fog desert: Measurements during two seasons in the field and under controlled conditions. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 201 (4) 268 - 280

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036725300500143X

Lalley JS, Viles HA, Copeman N, Cowley C 2006. The influence of multi-scale environmental variables on the distribution of terricolous lichens in a fog desert. Journal of Vegetation Science 17 (6) 831 - 838

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2006.tb02506.x/abstract

Lalley JS, Viles HA 2005. Terricolous lichens in the northern Namib Desert of Namibia: Distribution and community composition. The Lichenologist 37 (1) 77 - 91

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Lalley JS, Viles HA 2006. Do vehicle track disturbances affect the productivity of soil-growing lichens in a fog desert?. Functional Ecology 20 (3) 548 - 556

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Hauffe HC, Pietruszka RD, Seely MK 1988. Observations on the behaviour of Onymacris laeviceps Gebien (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae>: Adesmiini) in the central Namib Desert dunes. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 51 (2) 183 - 192

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/observations-behaviour-onymacris-laeviceps-gebien-coleoptera-tenebrionidae-adesmiini-central-namib-desert-dunes/

CRU-TS 2.1 Climate Database.

Website link:http://www.cgiar-csi.org/data/climate/item/52-cru-ts-21-climate-database

van Jaarsveld E 2008. Desert grapes: an expedition to the remote reaches of the southern Namib: Namib flora. Veld and Flora 94 (2) 82-86

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Soderberg K, Henschel J, Macko SA 2008. Effects of aridity and fog deposition on C3/CAM Photosynthesis and N-cycling in Welwitschia mirabilis.

Website link:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AGUFM.B23C0439S

Macko S, Soderberg K, Henschel J, Billmark K, Swap R 2010. Linking fog water use by plants in the coastal Namib Desert to carbon and nitrogen cycles along aridity gradients.

Website link:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFM.B51A0291M

2002. 3.06 Approximate numbers of days of fog per year - source data.

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2002. 3.06 Approximate numbers of days of fog per year.

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Murray IW, Fuller A, Lease HM, Mitchell D, Wolf BO, Hetem RS 2015. Low field metabolic rates for geckos of the genus Rhoptropus may not be surprising. Journal of Arid Environments 113 35-42

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314001906

Heinicke MP, Adderly LM, Bauer AM, Jackman TR 2011. A long-known new species of gecko allied to Pachydactylus bicolor (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the central Namibian coast. African Journal of Herpetology 60 (2) 113-129

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Soderberg K, Henschel J, Swap R, Macko S 2011. Environmental controls on C, N and S cycling in plants of the Namib Desert. Geophysical Research Abstracts 13

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Soderberg K, Swap RJ, Macko SA Fog-aerosol interactions in the coastal Namib Desert.

Website link:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFM.A51D0138S

Gottlieb TR, Eckardt FD, Venter ZS, Cramer MD 2019. The contribution of fog to water and nutrient supply to Arthraerua leubnitziae in the central Namib Desert, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments (161) 35-46

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.11.002

Evans SE, Dueker ME, Logan JR, Weathers KC 2019. The biology of fog: results from coastal Maine and Namib Desert reveal common drivers of fog microbial composition. Science of The Total Environment (647) 1547-1556

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Li B, Wang L, Kaseke KF, Vogt R, Li L, Seely MK 2018. The impact of fog on soil moisture dynamics in the Namib Desert. Advances in Water Resources (113) 23-29

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.01.004

Andersen H, Cermak J, Solodovnik I, Lelli L, Vogt R 2018. Spatiotemporal dynamics of fog and low clouds in the Namib unveiled with ground and space-based observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physic

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Andersen H, Cermak J 2018. First fully diurnal fog and low cloud satellite detection reveals life cycle in the Namib. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (11) 5461-5470

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Henschel J, Wassenaar TD, Kanandjembo A, Kilbourn Louw M, Neef G, Shuuya T, Soderberg K 2018. Roots point to water sources of Welwitschia mirabilis in a hyperarid desert. Ecohydrology (12)

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Roots point to water sources of Welwitschia mirabilis in a hyperarid desert.pdf	1.72 MB

Adhikari B, Wang L 2018. Groundwater and soil moisture - potential sources of fog in the Namib Desert?.

Website link:https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2018AM/webprogram/Paper321475.html

Wirth V, Loris K, Müller J 2007. Lichens in the fog zone of the Central Namib and their distribution along an ocean in-land transect. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (95) 555-582

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263965792_Lichens_in_the_fog_zone_of_the_Central_Namib_and_their_distribution_along_an_ocean_in-land_transect

Lange OL, Green TGA, Meyer A, Zellner H 2008. Epilithic Lichens in the Namib Fog Desert: Field Measurements of Water Relations and Carbon Dioxide Exchange. Sauteria (15) 283-302

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Wirth V, Bungarz F 2009. Lecidelletum crystallinae, a lichen community on gypsum crusts of the Namib Desert including the new species Buellia sipmanii. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (99) 405-410

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Wirth V, Müller J, Pfiz M, Loris K, Küppers M 2010. Lichen distribution along an ocean-inland transect in the fog zone of the Central Namib. Biodiversity in southern Africa, 2: Patterns and processes at regional scale 112-117

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Lichen distribution along an ocean_inland transect in the fog zone of the Central Namib.pdf	1.55 MB

Gottlieb TR 2017. The contribution of fog to the moisture and nutritional supply of Arthraerua leubnitziae in the central Namib Desert, Namibia.

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The contribution of fog to the moisture and nutritional supply of Arthraerua leubnitziae in the central Namib Desert_Tunehafo Gottlieb thesis.pdf	3.69 MB

Mupambwa HA, Hausiku MK, Nciizah AD, Dube E 2019. The unique Namib desert-coastal region and its opportunities for climate smart agriculture: A review. Cogent Food and Agriculture (5) 1645258

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Jung P, Baumann K, Lehnert LW, Samolov E, Achilles S, Schermer M, Wraase LM, Eckhardt K-U, Bader MY, Leinweber P, Karsten U, Bendix J, Büdel B 2019. Desert breath - How fog promotes a novel type of soil biocenosis, forming the coastal Atacama Desert's living skin. Geobiology 00 1–12

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Kaseke KF, Tian C, Wang L, Seely M, Vogt R, Wassenaar T, Mushi R 2018. Fog spatial distributions over the central Namib Desert - An isotope approach. Aerosol and Air Quality Research 18 49-61

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Andersen H, Cermak J, Fuchs J, Knippertz P, Gaetani M, Quinting J, Sippel S, Vogt R 2020. Synoptic-scale controls of fog and low clouds in the Namib Desert. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 3415-3438

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Beckett RP 1998. Some aspects of the water relations of the lichen Xanthomaculina hottentotta (Ach.) Hale from the Namib Desert. South African Journal of Botany 64 (6) 346-349

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Some aspects of the water relations of the lichen Xanthomaculina hottentotta from the Namib Desert.pdf	1.35 MB

Matimati I, Musil CF, Raitt L, February E 2013. Non rainfall moisture interception by dwarf succulents and their relative abundance in an inland arid South African ecosystem. Ecohydrology 6 (5) 818-825

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Non rainfall moisture interception by dwarf succulents and their relative abundance in an inland arid South African ecosystem.pdf	284.72 KB

Aushiku NNL, Buschbeck L, Christian A, Handjaba M, Haraes L, Ithindi J, Johannes K, Kandjai A, Ndjomba E 2015. Changes in rainfall and biomass in the Namib sand sea dune ecosystem over 52 Years. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 63 219-237

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Azad AK 2016. Fog collection on plant surfaces and biomimetic applications.

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Vogt R, Maggs-Kölling G, Seely MK Lifting the fog in the central Namib - where did it come from?.

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Spirig R, Vogt R, Larsen JA, Feigenwinter C, Wicki A, Franceschi J, Parlow E, Adler B, Kalthoff N, Cermak J, Andersen H, Fuchs J, Bott A, Hacker M, Wagner N, Maggs-Kölling G, Wassenaar T, Seely MK 2019. Probing the fog life-cycles in the Namib desert. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2019 2491-2507

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Probing the fog life_cycles in the Namib desert.pdf	22.68 MB

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0142.1

Kaseke KF, Wang L, Seely MK 2017. Nonrainfall water origins and formation mechanisms. Science Advances 3 (3) 1-8

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Wang L, Kaseke KF, Ravi S, Jiao W, Mushi R, Shuuya T, Maggs-Kölling G 2019. Convergent vegetation fog and dew water use in the Namib Desert. Ecohydrology 12 (7)

Website link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eco.2130

Marufu VJ, Hitila M, Donner M, Iita KT, Iyambo KE, Kalili SN, Kamburona TU, Liyeke MM, Mundilo PVI, Nuuyuni SN, Shimwafeni JI, Tjituka V, Tshikesho RS, Seely MK, Throop HL 2016. Rapid soil respiration responses to simulated rainfall along the Namib Desert climate gradient. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 64 103-120

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Throop HL, Seely MK, Marufu VJ 2020. Multiple scales of spatial heterogeneity control soil respiration responses to precipitation across a dryland rainfall gradient. Plant Soil 2020

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11104-020-04614-0

Lovegrove BG 2020. Fog basking by Namib Desert weevils. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19 (9) 495

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Claudino-Sales V 2018. Namib Sand Sea. Coastal World Heritage Sites 28 9-14

Website link:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-024-1528-5_2

Yu Z, Zhang H, Huang J, Li S, Zhang S, Cheng Y, Mao J, Dong X, Gao S, Wang S, Chen Z, Jiang Y, Lai Y 2020. Namib desert beetle inspired special patterned fabric with programmable and gradient wettability for efficient fog harvesting. Journal of Materials Science and Technology 61 85-92

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1005030220305879

Qiao N, Zhang L, Huang C, Jiao W, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Wang L 2020. Satellite observed positive impacts of fog on vegetation. Geophysical Research Letters 47 (12)

Website link:https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL088428

Mitchell D, Henschel JR, Hetem RS, Wassenaar TD, Strauss WM, Hanrahan SA, Seely MK 2020. Fog and fauna of the Namib Desert: past and future. Ecosphere 11 (1)

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Fog and fauna of the Namib Desert_past and future.pdf	12.51 MB

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The influence of multi_scale environmental variables on the distribution of terricolous lichens in a fog desert.pdf	249.65 KB

Warren-Rhodes KA, Boyle LN, Wing MR, Kiekebusch EM, Cowan DA, Stomeo F, Pointing SB, Kaseke KF, Eckardt F, Henschel JR, Anisfeld A, Seely M, Rhodes K 2013. Physical ecology of hypolithic communities in the central Namib Desert: The role of fog, rain, rock habitat, and light. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 118 (4) 1451-1460

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