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The top layer of the land surface of the earth that is composed of disintegrated rock particles, humus, water and air. (Source: CED)

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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

New Generation Soil Property Maps for Africa. Science Daily.

Website link:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130416085304.htm?utm_source=feedburner

Schlesinger WH, Reynolds JF, Cunningham GL, Huenneke LF, Jarrell WM, Virginia RA, Whitford WG 1990. Biological Feedbacks in Global Desertification. Science 247 (4946) 1043-1048

Website link:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/247/4946/1043.short

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

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

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

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

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

Schwartz MO 2006. Numerical modelling of groundwater vulnerability: the example Namibia. Environmental Geology 50 (2) 237-249

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00254-006-0204-6?LI=true

Eltayeb MAH, van Grieken RE, Maenhaut W, Annegam HAJ 1992. Aerosol-soil fractionation for Namib Desert samples. Journal of Aerosol Science 23 (1) 983-986

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002185029290577I

Jacobson KM, Jacobson PJ 1998. Rainfall regulates decomposition of buried cellulose in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 38 (4) 571-583

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019639790358X

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

Lalley JS, Viles HA, Henschel JR, Lalley V 2006. Lichen-dominated soil crusts as arthropod habitat in warm deserts. Journal of Arid Environments 67 (4) 579-593

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306000978

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

Zeidler J, Hanrahan S, Scholes M 2002. Land-use intensity affects range condition in arid to semi-arid Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 52 (3) 389-403

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302909900

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

Lyon J, Gross NM 2005. Patterns of plant diversity and plant–environmental relationships across three riparian corridors. Forest Ecology and Management 204 (2-3) 267-278

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112704006954

Hille Ris Lambers R, Rietkerk M, van der Bosch F, Prins HHT, de Kroon H 2001. Vegetation pattern formation in semi-arid grazing systems. Ecology 82 (1) 50-61

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2680085

Kaschula SA, Twine WE, Scholes MC 2005. Coppice Harvesting of Fuelwood Species on a South African Common: Utilizing Scientiﬁc and Indigenous Knowledge in Community Based Natural Resource Management. Human Ecology 33 (3) 387-418

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4603578

Parsons DAB, Shackelton CM, Scholes RJ 1997. Changes in herbaceous layer condition under contrasting land use systems in the semi-arid lowveld, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 37 (2) 319-329

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397902834

Koning N, Smaling E 2005. Environmental crisis or 'lie of the land'? The debate on soil degradation in Africa. Land Use Policy 22 (1) 3-11

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837704000158

Kirchmann H, Andersson R 2001. The Swedish system for quality assessment of agricultural soils. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 72 (2) 129-139

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1012048124858?LI=true

Desoyza AG, Whitford WG, Turner SJ, van Zee JW, Johnson AR 2000. Assessing and monitoring the health of western rangeland watersheds. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 64 (1) 153-166

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1006423708707?LI=true

Earth Science Solutions 2010. Swakop Uranium Husab Project, Specialist Soils and Land Capability Assessment.

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Vegetation Survey of Namibia.

Website link:http://www.nbri.org.na/index.php?id=survey

Coetzee ME 2004. Arenosols of Namibia. Agricola 14 18 - 22

Website link:http://www.nbri.org.na/publications

Grube S 2001. Soil modification by the harvester termite Hodotermes mossambicus (Isoptera; Hodotermitidae) in a semiarid savanna grassland of Namibia. Sociobiology 37 (3B) 757 - 767

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/soil-modification-harvester-termite-hodotermes-mossambicus-isoptera-hodotermitidae-semiarid-savanna-grassland-namibia-3/

Seely M, Klintenberg P, Hager C 2008. Human Dimensions of Soil Sustainability. Encyclopedia of Soil Science Second - Edition

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1081/E-ESS-120044638

Kapalanga TS 2008. A Review of Land Degraradatation Assessment Methods.

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Ward D, Ngairorue BT, Apollus A, Tjiveze H 2000. Perceptions and realities of land degradation in arid Otjimbingwe, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 45 (4) 337 - 356

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300906475

Uhlmann E, Görke C, Petersen A, Oberwinkler F 2006. Arbuscular mycorrhizae from arid parts of Namibia. Journal of Arid Environment 64 (2) 221 - 237

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305001278

Azzali S, Menenti M 2000. Mapping vegetation-soil-climate complexes in southern Africa using temporal Fourier analysis of NOAA-AVHRR NDVI data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21 (5) 973 - 996

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014311600210380

Owen-Smith N, Cooper SM 1987. Palatability of woody plants to browsing ruminants in a South African savanna. Ecology 68 (2) 319 - 331

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/1939263

Mills AJ, Fey MV, Gröngröft A, Petersen A, Medinski TV 2006. Unravelling the effects of soil properties on water infiltration: Segmented quantile regression on a large data set from arid south-west Africa. Australian Journal of Soil Research 44 (8) 783 - 797

Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/SR05180.htm

Caylor KK, Shugart HH, Rodriguez-Iturbe I 2005. Tree Canopy Effects on Simulated Water Stress in Southern African Savannas. Ecosystems 8 (1) 17 - 32

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/ua4fjykycexgx5y1/

Burke A 2008. The effect of topsoil treatment on the recovery of rocky plain and outcrop plant communities in Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 72 (8) 1531 - 1536

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308000591

Burke A 2002. Properties of soil pockets on arid Nama Karoo inselbergs-the effect of geology and derived landforms. Journal of Arid Environments 50 (2) 219 - 234

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196301909073

Burke A 2003. How special are Etendeka mesas? Flora and elevation gradients in an arid landscape in north-west Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 55 (4) 747 - 764

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302002938

Burke A 2001. Classification and ordination of plant communities of the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Journal of Vegetation Science 12 (1) 53 - 60

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236673

Berkeley A, Thomas AD, Dougill AJ 2005. Cyanobacterial soil crusts and woody shrub canopies in Kalahari rangelands. African Journal of Ecology 43 137 - 145

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Paige-Green P, Pinard M 2011. Use of a sedimentological technique for assessing the engineering performance of sands in roads. 18 - 21

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5270

SASSCAL Institutes.

Website link:http://www.sasscal.org/profile_DE_Hannover_BGR.php?PHPSESSID=ak6mtv62kn0147hg3a9pev9bo5

Aranibar JN, Otter L, Macko SA, Feral CJW, Epstein HE, Dowty PR, Eckardt F, Shugart HH, Swap RJ 2004. Nitrogen cycling in the soil-plant system along precipitation gradient in the Kalahari sands. Global Change Biology 10 (3) 359 - 373

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1961

Astle WL, Braun HB 1977. Selected soil profile descriptions.

Schutte CHJ 2001. Final report on the results of the base-line survey to determine the extent of Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth problems in the Kavango and Caprivi regions of Namibia.

Schneider MB 1987. Notes on terrace soils of the Kavango River, northern SWA/Namibia. Journal of the SWA Scientific Society 40 - 41 199 - 213

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