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A community of plants or plant life that share distinguishable characteristics. (Source: PEM)

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Johnson SD, Harris LF, Proches S 2009. Pollination and breeding systems of selected wildflowers in a southern African grassland community. South African Journal of Botany 75 (4) 630-645

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629909002464

Jackson JC, Duodu KG, Holse M, Lima de Faria MD, Jordaan D, Chingwaru W, Hansen A, Cencic A, Kandawa-Schultz M, Mpotokwane SM, Chimwamurombe P, de Kock HL, Minnaar A 2010. Chapter 5 – The Morama Bean (Tylosema esculentum): A Potential Crop for Southern Africa. Advances in Food and Nutrition Research 61 187-246

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123744685000052

Loarie SR, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL 2009. Elephant seasonal vegetation preferences across dry and wet savannas. Biological Conservation 142 (12) 3099-3107

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320709003760

Lohmann D, Tietjen B, Blaum N, Joubert DF, Jeltsch F 2014. Prescribed fire as a tool for managing shrub encroachment in semi-arid savanna rangelands. Journal of Arid Environments 107 49-56

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314000846

Grist J, Nicholson SE, Mpolokang A 1997. On the use of NDVI for estimating rainfall fields in the Kalahari of Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 35 (2) 195-214

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019639690172X

Avery DM 1993. Last interglacial and holocene altithermal environments in South Africa and Namibia: micromammalian evidence. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 103 (3-4) 221-228

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/003101829390014A

Mannheimer C, Curtis B 2010. Le Roux and Müller's Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Namibia.

Website link:http://www.nbri.org.na/le-roux-and-m%C3%BCllers-fieldguide-trees-and-shrubs-of-namibia

Ringrose S, Vanderpost C, Matheson W 2003. Mapping ecological conditions in the Okavango delta, Botswana using fine and coarse resolution systems including simulated SPOT vegetation imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24 (5) 1029-1052

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160210155046#.U7UiQVJZopE

Kribek B, Majer V, Pasava J, Kamona F, Mapani B, Keder J, Ettler V 2014. Contamination of soils with dust fallout from the tailings dam at the Rosh Pinah area, Namibia: Regional assessment, dust dispersion modeling and environmental consequences. Journal of Geochemical Exploration In Press

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375674214000120

Hamandawana H, Chanda R, Eckardt E 2008. Reappraisal of contemporary perspectives on climate change in southern Africa's Okavango Delta sub-region. Journal of Arid Environments 72 (9) 1709-1720

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308000621

Loope LL, Sanchez PG 1988. Biological invasions of arid land nature reserves. Biological Conservation 44 (1-2) 95-118

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006320788900067

Hofmann C-C, Rice AHN 2010. Leaf-jams - A new and unique leaf deposit in the ephemeral Hoanib River, NW Namibia: Origin and plant taphonomic implications. International Journal of Coal Geology 83 (2) 195-203

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166516209001530

O'Connor TG, Goodman PS, Clegg B 2007. A functional hypothesis of the threat of local extirpation of woody plant species by elephant in Africa. Biological Conservation 136 (3) 329-345

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Wesuls D, Pellowski M, Suchrow S, Oldeland J, Jansen F, Dengler J 2013. The grazing fingerprint: Modelling species responses and trait patterns along grazing gradients in semi-arid Namibian rangelands. Ecological Indicators 27 61-70

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X12003883

Joubert DF, Smit GN, Hoffman MT 2013. The influence of rainfall, competition and predation on seed production, germination and establishment of an encroaching Acacia in an arid Namibian savanna. Journal of Arid Environments 91 7-13

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Bamford MK 2004. Diversity of the Woody Vegetation of Gondwanan Southern Africa. Gondwana Research 7 (1) 153-164

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X05703142

van Heerden PDR, Swanepoel JW, Krüger GHJ 2007. Modulation of photosynthesis by drought in two desert scrub species exhibiting C3-mode CO2 assimilation. Environmental and Experimental Botany 61 (2) 124-136

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098847207000792

Gess SK, Gess FW 2004. Distributions of flower associations of pollen wasps (Vespidae: Masarinae) in southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 57 (1) 17-44

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196303000934

Milzow C, Burg V, Kinzelbach W 2010. Estimating future ecoregion distributions within the Okavango Delta Wetlands based on hydrological simulations and future climate and development scenarios. Journal of Hydrology 381 (1-2) 89-100

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169409007483

Bellstedt DU, van Zyl L, Marais EM, Bytebier B, de Villiers CA, Makwarela AM, Dreyer LL 2008. Phylogenetic relationships, character evolution and biogeography of southern African members of Zygophyllum (Zygophyllaceae) based on three plastid regions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47 (3) 932-949

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790308000900

Franz M, Kramer-Schadt S, Kilian W, Wissel C, Groeneveld J 2010. Understanding the effects of rainfall on elephant - vegetation interactions around waterholes. Ecological Modelling 221 (24) 2909-2917

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380010004588

du Plessis WP 1999. Linear regression relationships between NDVI, vegetation and rainfall in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 42 (4) 235-260

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196399905050

Oldeland J, Dorigo W, Lieckfeld L, Lucieer A, Jürgens N 2010. Combining vegetation indices, constrained ordination and fuzzy classification for mapping semi-natural vegetation units from hyperspectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 114 (6) 1155-1166

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425710000258

Craven P, Dreyer LL, van Wyk AB 2009. Floristic groups in Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 75 (2) 397

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629909000428

Kangombe FN, Strohbach BJ 2008. Vegetation mapping and description of Ogongo Agricultural Farm and surrounds. South African Journal of Botany 74 (2) 387-388

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629908001518

Moser-Nørgaard PM, Denich M 2011. Influence of livestock on the regeneration of fodder trees along ephemeral rivers of Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (4) 371-376

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310003186

Klopatek JM, Stock WD 1994. Partitioning of nutrients in Acanthosicyos horridus, a keystone endemic species in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 26 (3) 233-240

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196384710263

Burke A 2013. Succulent plants on arid inselbergs. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 208 (5-6) 321-329

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Greyling T, Cilliers SS, van Hamburg H 2007. Vegetation studies of feral horse habitat in the Namib Naukluft Park, Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 73 (2) 328

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S025462990700172X

White F 1983. The vegetation of Africa, a descriptive memoir to accompany the UNESCO/AETFAT/UNSO Vegetation Map of Africa (3 Plates, Northwestern Africa, Northeastern Africa, and Southern Africa, 1:5,000,000). UNESCO, Paris. The Geographical Journal 151 (1) 132-134

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/633318

February EC, Matimati I, Hedderson TA, Musil CF 2013. Root niche partitioning between shallow rooted succulents in a South African semi desert: implications for diversity. Plant Ecology 214 (9) 1181-1187

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11258-013-0242-6

Miller MF 1994. Large African herbivores, bruchid beetles and their interactions with Acacia seeds. Oecologia 97 (2) 265-270

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00323159

Volk OH 1984. Pflanzenvergesellschaftungen mit Riccia-Arten in Südwestafrika (Namibia). Vegetatio 55 (1) 57-64

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Pflanzenvergesellschaftungen mit Riccia_Arten in Suedwestafrika.pdf	147.93 KB

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Huntley BJ 1982. Southern African Savannas. Ecology of Tropical Savannas 42 101-119

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-68786-0_6

Todd SW, Hoffman MT 1999. A fence-line contrast reveals effects of heavy grazing on plant diversity and community composition in Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 169-178

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1009810008982

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

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Thomas DA, Treichel S 1979. The activity and malate inhibition/stimulation of phosphoenolpyruvate-carboxylase in crassulacean-acid-metabolism plants in their natural environment. Planta 147 (1) 31-36

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00384587

Gibson AC 1996. Plant Life Forms of Warm Desert Climates. Structure-Function Relations of Warm Desert Plants 1-22

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-60979-4_1

Taylor HC 1978. Capensis. Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa 31 171-229

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-9951-0_8

Schmiedel U, Jürgens N 2004. Habitat ecology of southern African quartz fields: studies on the thermal properties near the ground. Plant Ecology 170 (2) 153-166

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Jürgens N, Gotzmann IH, Cowling RM 1999. Remarkable medium-term dynamics of leaf succulent Mesembryanthemaceae shrubs in the winter-rainfall desert of northwestern Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 87-96

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Schmiedel U, Jürgens N 1999. Community structure on unusual habitat islands: quartz-fields in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 57-69

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Leistner OA, Werger MJA 1973. Southern kalahari phytosociology. Vegetatio 28 (5-6) 353-399

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02386499

Burke A 2005. Vegetation types of mountain tops in Damaraland, Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 14 (6) 1487-1506

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-004-9788-x

Dupont LM, Behling H, Jahns S, Marret F, Kim J-H 2007. Variability in glacial and Holocene marine pollen records offshore from west southern Africa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 16 (2-3) 87-100

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-006-0080-8

Skarpe C 1986. Plant community structure in relation to grazing and environmental changes along a north-south transect in the western Kalahari. Vegetatio 68 (1) 3-18

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00031575

Goudie AS 2009. Global Deserts and Their Geomorphological Diversity. Geomorphology of Desert Environments 9-20

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-5719-9_2

Berry HH, Siegfried WR 1991. Mosaic-Like Events in Arid and Semi-Arid Namibia. The Mosaic-Cycle Concept of Ecosystems Ecological Studies 85 147-160

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75650-4_8

Jürgens N 1991. A new approach to the Namib Region. Vegetatio 97 (1) 21-38

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00033899

Curtis BA 1985. Nests of the namib desert dune ant Camponotus detritus Emery. Insectes Sociaux 32 (3) 313-320

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02224920