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A very large and widespread family of Monocotyledoneae, with more than 10.000 species, most of which are herbaceous, but a few are woody. The stems are jointed, the long, narrow leaves originating at the nodes. The flowers are inconspicuous, with a much reduced perianth, and are wind-pollinated or cleistogamous. The fruit in single-seeded, usually a caryopsis. Grasses are the most important of all plants for food. (Source: ALL)

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Wagner TC, Hane S, Joubert DF, Fischer C 2016. Herbaceous legume encroachment reduces grass productivity and density in arid rangelands. Plos ONE 11 (11) e0166743

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Herbaceous Legume Encroachment Reduces Grass Productivity and Density in Arid Rangelands.pdf	1.86 MB

Prinsloo GL 1984. A new species of Hockeria Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae), parasitic in two gall-inciting Lepidoptera from the Namib Desert, South West Africa. Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa 47 (2) 239-244

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A new species of Hockeria Walker_parasitic in two gall_inciting Lepidoptera from the Namib Desert_1984.pdf	2.55 MB

Cramer MD, Barger NN 2013. Are Namibian "Fairy Circles" the consequence of self-organizing spatial vegetation patterning?. Plos ONE 8 (8) e70876

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Are Namibian Fairy Circles the consequence of self_organizing spatial vegetation patterning_2013.pdf	1.77 MB

Tschinkel WR 2015. Experiments Testing the Causes of Namibian Fairy Circles. Plos ONE 10 (10) e0140099

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Experiments Testing the Causes of Namibian Fairy Circles.pdf	22.59 MB

Jacobson K, van Diepeningen A, Evans S, Fritts R, Gemmel P, Marsho C, Seely M, Wenndt A, Yang X, Jacobson P 2015. Non-Rainfall Moisture Activates Fungal Decomposition of Surface Litter in the Namib Sand Sea. Plos ONE 10 (5) e0126977

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Non_Rainfall Moisture Activates Fungal Decomposition of Surface Litter in the Namib Sand Sea.pdf	3.35 MB

Ramond J-B, Pienaar A, Armstrong A, Seely M, Cowan DA 2014. Niche-Partitioning of Edaphic Microbial Communities in the Namib Desert Gravel Plain Fairy Circles. Plos ONE 9 (10) e109539

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Niche_Partitioning of Edaphic Microbial Communities_NAmib Desert.pdf	747.94 KB

Seely MK 1978. Standing crop as an index of precipitation in the Central Namib grassland. Madoqua 11 (1) 61-68

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Standing crop as an index of precipitation in the Central Namib grassland.pdf	544.86 KB

Strohbach BJ, Walters HJA 2015. An overview of grass species used for thatching in the Zambezi, Kavango East and Kavango West Regions, Namibia. Dinteria 35 13-42

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An overview of grass species used for thatching in the Zambezi_Kavango East and Kavango_2015.pdf	1.24 MB

Hipondoka MHT, Aranibar JN, Chirara C, Lihavha M, Macko SA 2003. Vertical distribution of grass and tree roots in arid ecosystems of Southern Africa: niche differentiation or competition?. Journal of Arid Environments 54 319-325

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Vertical distribution of grass and tree roots in arid ecosystems.pdf	212.42 KB

Behnke RH 1998. Grazing Systems in the Northern Communal Areas of Namibia. A summary of NOLIDEP socio-economic research of range management.

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Grazing Systems in the Northern Communal Areas of Namibia_RH Behnke.pdf	20.49 MB

Christian I 1998. Grazing Management Study. Prepared for NOLIDEP - The Northern Regions Livestock Development Project.

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Grazing Management Study_ Ingrid Christian_January 1998.pdf	18.54 MB

Ellis RP 1988. Leaf anatomy of the South African Danthonieae (Poaceae). XVII. The genus Chaetobromus. Bothalia 18 (2) 195-209

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The genus Chaetobromus.pdf	4.09 MB

Ellis RP 1986. Leaf anatomy of the South African Danthonieae (Poaceae). XV. The genus Elytrophorus. Bothalia 16 (2) 243-249

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Leaf anatomy of the South African Danthonieae.pdf	1.5 MB

Zimmermann J, Higgins SI, Grimm V, Hoffmann J, Linstäder A 2010. Grass mortality in semi-arid savanna: The role of fire, competition and self-shading. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 12 (2010) 1-8

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Grass mortality in Semi_arid savanna.pdf	267.58 KB

Zizka G 1987. Die Gräsergattungen Rhynchelytrum und Tricholaena in SWA/Namibia. Dinteria 19 3-25

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Dinteria_19_1987_1.pdf	2.07 MB

Burger SJ 1974. Ontkieming-, voeding- en ontblaringstudies op Anthephora pubescens Nees.

Website link:http://agris.fao.org/aos/records/US201300379948

Danin A 1996. Adaptations of Stipagrostis species to desert dunes. Journal of Arid Environments 34 (3) 297-311

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396901111

Danin A, Orshan G 1995. Circular arrangement of Stipagrostis ciliata clumps in the Negev, Israel and near Gokaeb, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 30 (3) 307-313

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305800059

Bhattarai SP, Fox J, Gyasi-Agyei Y 2008. Enhancing buffel grass seed germination by acid treatment for rapid vegetation establishment on railway batters. Journal of Arid Environments 72 (3) 255-262

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196307001735

Jankowitz WJ, van Rooyen MW, Shaw D, Kaumba JS, van Rooyen N 2008. Mysterious circles in the Namib Desert. South African Journal of Botany 74 (2) 332-334

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S025462990700395X

Veenendaal EM, Ernst WHO, Modise GS 1996. Reproductive effort and phenology of seed production of savanna grasses with different growth form and life history. Vegetatio 123 (1) 91-100

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00044891

Leistner OA 1996. The subcanopy flora in the dynamics of the Kalahari Thornveld. The Biodiversity of African Plants 163-179

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-0285-5_23

Ernst WHO, Veenendaal EM, Kebakile MM 1992. Possibilities for dispersal in annual and perennial grasses in a savanna in Botswana. Vegetatio 102 (1) 1-11

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00031700

Schulze E-D, Ellis R, Schulze W, Trimborn P, Ziegler H 1996. Diversity, metabolic types and d13C carbon isotope ratios in the grass flora of Namibia in relation to growth form, precipitation and habitat conditions. Oecologia 106 (3) 352-369

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00334563

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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Grass_rainfall and herbivores as determinants of Acacia erioloba recruitment in an African savanna.pdf	629.03 KB

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

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

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

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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Efficient fog harvesting by Stipagrostis sabulicola.pdf	5.38 MB

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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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Animal or Plant_Which Is the Better Fog Water Collector.pdf	262.37 KB

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

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

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

Segalen L, Renard M, Lee-Thorp JA, Emmanuel L, le Callonnec L, de Rafélis M, Senut B, Pickford M, Melice J-L 2006. Neogene climate change and emergence of C4 grasses in the Namib, southwestern Africa, as reflected in ratite 13C and 18 O. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 244 (3-4) 725-734

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X05008708

Günster A 1995. Grass cover distribution in the central Namib— a rapid method to assess regional and local rainfall patterns of arid regions?. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (1) 107-114

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196395800689

Kadmon R 1995. Plant Competition along Soil Moisture Gradients: A Field Experiment with the Desert Annual Stipa capensis. Journal of Ecology 83 (2) 253-262

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2261564

Baruch Z 2005. Vegetation–environment relationships and classi?cation of the seasonal savannas in Venezuela. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 200 (1) 49-64

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036725300500006X

Watkinson AR, Ormerod SJ 2001. Grasslands, grazing and biodiversity: editors' introduction. Journal of Applied Ecology 38 (2) 233-237

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00621.x/full

Griffith JA, Price K, Martinko EA 2001. A multivariate analysis of biophysical parameters of tallgrass prairie among land management practices and years. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 68 (3) 249-271

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1010703725172?LI=true

Hartnett DC, Setshego MP, Dalgleish HJ 2006. Bud banks of perennial savanna grasses in Botswana. African Journal of Ecology 44 (2) 256-263

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00646.x/abstract

Grube S 2002. The fairy circles of Kaokoland (Northwest Namibia) - is the harvester termite Hodotermes mossambicus the prime causal factor in circle formation?. Basic and Applied Ecology 3 (4) 367 - 370

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/the-fairy-circles-of-kaokoland-northwest-namibia-is-the-harvester-termite-hodotermes-mossambicus-the-prime-causal-factor-in-circle-formation/

Zimmermann I, Graz FP, Berry MH, Imasiku NNT, Muroua ND, Sibalatani MM, Sikopo CS 2001. Quantified range condition assessment of open Camelthorn savanna along a degradation gradient. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 18 (2 - 3) 111 - 116

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10220110109485763

Ward D, Saltz D, Ngairorue BT 2004. Spatio-temporal rainfall variation and stock management in arid Namibia. Journal of Range Management 57 (2) 130 - 140

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/4003910

Rohde RF, Hoffman MT 2011. The historical ecology of Namibian rangelands: Vegetation change since 1876 in response to local and global drivers. Science of the Total Environment 416 276 - 288

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969711012617

Richter CGF, Snyman HA, Smit GN 2001. The influence of tree density on the grass layer of three semi-arid savanna types of southern Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 18 (2) 103 - 109

Website link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10220110109485762

du Plessis WP 2001. Effective rainfall defined using measurements of grass growth in the Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 48 (3) 397 - 417

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300907523

Klintenberg P, Verlinden A 2008. Water points and their influence on grazing resources in central northern Namibia. Land Degradation and Development 19 (1) 1 - 20

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.809/abstract

Jacobson KM 1997. Moisture and substrate stability determine VA-mycorrhizal fungal community distribution and structure in an arid grassland. Journal of Arid Environments 35 59 - 75

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Moisture and substrate stability determine VA_mycorrhizal fungal community distribution and structure in an arid grassland.pdf	149.29 KB

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Hipondoka MHT, Versfeld WD 2006. Root system of Terminalia sericea shrubs across rainfall gradient in a semi-arid environment of Etosha National Park, Namibia. Ecological Indicators 6 (3) 516 - 524

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Root system of Terminalia sericea shrubs across rainfall gradient in a semi_arid environment of Etosha National Park.pdf	3.05 MB

Cox GW 1987. The origin of vegetation circles on stony soils of the Namib Desert near Gobabeb, South West Africa/Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 13 237 - 243

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292220748_The_origin_of_vegetation_circles_on_stony_soils_of_the_Namib_Desert_near_Gobabeb_South_West_AfricaNamibia