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A climate type which is characterized by insufficient moisture to support appreciable plant life; that is, a climate of extreme aridity. (Source: MGH)

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Murray IW, Fuller A, Lease HM, Mitchell D, Wolf BO, Hetem RS 2014. The actively foraging desert lizard Pedioplanis husabensis (Husab Sand Lizard) behaviorally optimizes its energetic economy. Canadian Journal of Zoology 92 (19) 905-913

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Williams JB 2001. Energy expenditure and water flux of freeliving dune larks in the Namib desert: a test of the re-allocation hypothesis on a desert bird. Functional Ecology 15 175-185

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Energy expenditure and water flux of freeliving dune larks in the Namib desert_2001.pdf	736.76 KB

Williams JB 1990. Heat production and evaporative water loss of dune larks from the Namib desert. Condor 101 432-438

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Heat production and evaporative water loss of dune larks from the Namib desert.pdf	612.69 KB

Harmse JT 1980. Die noordwaartse begrensing van die duinsee van die sentrale Namib langs die benede-Kuiseb.

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Die noordwaartse begrensing van die duinsee van die sentrale Namib langs die benede_Kuiseb_1980.pdf	138.8 MB

Shanyengana ES 1997. Gobabeb Training and Research Centre programme: appropriate technology for arid lands.

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Appropriate technology for arid lands_1997.pdf	45.97 MB

1987. The masterplan for the West Coast Recreational Area.

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The masterplan for the West Coast Recreational Area.pdf	17.63 MB

Noli G 1993. The tourist potential of the Sperrgebiet of the Namib desert, being the area within 100km of the Atlantic coastline bordered by the 26th parallel in the north and by the Orange River in the South.

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The tourist potential of the Sperrgebiet of the Namib desert.pdf	3.55 MB

Goudie A 1972. Climate, weathering, crust formation, dunes, and fluvial features of the Central Namib Desert, near Gobabeb, South West Africa. Madoqua 2 (1) 15-31

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Climate_weathering_crust formation_dunes_and fluvial features of the Central Namib Desert.pdf	2.18 MB

Haufiku AT 2014. Study on domestic water use and water use efficiency: A case for Cuvelai-Etosha Basin.

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Study on domestic water use and water use efficiency_2014.pdf	2.59 MB

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) 2010. National Policy on Climate Change for Namibia, September 2010.

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National Policy on Climate Change for Namibia_2010.pdf	722.18 KB

Burke A 2006. The Sperrgebiet: managing its biodiversity.

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The Spergebiet Managing its Biodiversity Antje Burke.pdf	10.21 MB

Livingstone I 2003. A twenty-one-year record of surface change on a Namib linear dune. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 28 (9) 1025-1031

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.1000/abstract

Gess FW, Gess SK 1999. The use by wasps, bees and spiders of shells of Trigonephrus Pilsb. (Mollusca: Gasteropoda: Dorcasiidae) in desertic winter-rainfall areas in southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 43 (2) 143-153

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196399905499

Gehring AU, Riahi N, Kind J, Almqvist BSG, Weidler PG 2014. The formation of the Namib Sand Sea inferred from the spatial pattern of magnetic rock fragments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 395 168-172

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X14001939

Kroll T, Kruger AS 1998. Closing the gap: bringing communal farmers and service institutions together for livestock and rangeland development. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 315-323

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398903949

Geyh MA, Heine K 2014. Several distinct wet periods since 420 ka in the Namib Desert inferred from U-series dates of speleothems. Quaternary Research In Press

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Several distinct wet periods since 420 ka in the Namib Desert inferred from U_series dates of speleothems.pdf	1.46 MB

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589413001439

Seely M, Dirkx E, Hager C, Klintenberg P, Roberts C, von Oertzen D 2008. Advances in desertification and climate change research: are they accessible for application to enhance adaptive capacity?. Global and Planetary Change 64 (3-4) 236-243

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818108001331

Von Hase A, Cowling RM, Ellis AG 2006. Petal movement in cape wildflowers protects pollen from exposure to moisture. Plant Ecology 184 (1) 75-87

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11258-005-9053-8

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

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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Habitat ecology of southern African quartz fields.pdf	685.63 KB

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

Walter H 1985. Zonobiome of the Subtropical Arid Climate with Deserts. Vegetation of the Earth and Ecological Systems of the Geo-biosphere 113-147

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-96859-4_5

Kojwang HO 2000. Wood fuels review and assessment :Namibia Country Report.

Website link:http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/x6797e/X6797E00.htm

Hachfeld B, Jürgens N 2000. Climate patterns and their impact on the vegetation in a fog driven desert: the central Namib Desert in Namibia. Phytocoenologia 30 (3-4) 567-589

Website link:https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/phyto/detail/30/80801/Climate_patterns_and_their_impact_on_the_vegetation_in_a_fog_driven_desert_The_Central_Namib_Desert_in_Namibia

Latorre JG, Garcia-Latorre J, Sanchez-Picon A 2001. Dealing with aridity: socio-economic structures and environmental changes in an arid Mediterranean region. Land Use Policy 18 (1) 53-64

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837700000454

Desert Research Institute (DRI).

Website link:http://websearch-x.dri.edu/search?q=Namibia&site=default_collection&client=dri_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=dri_frontend

CRU-TS 2.1 Climate Database.

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

Digital Atlas of Namibia. Acacia (Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa) Project E1.

Website link:http://www.uni-koeln.de/sfb389/e/e1/download/atlas_namibia/e1_download_physical_geography_e.htm

Stone A, Bateman MD, Thomas DSG 2016. Rapid assessment of Namib Sand Sea sediment chronologies? Testing a portable luminescence reader against full OSL dating. Quaternary International 404 (B) 200-201

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104061821501304X

Jack SL, Hoffman MT, Rohde RF, Durbach I 2016. Climate change sentinel or false prophet? The case of Aloe dichotoma. Diversity and Distributions 1-13

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/ddi.12438/full

Akhtar-Schuster M, Amiraslani F, Diaz Morejon CF, Escadafal F, Fulajtar E, Grainger A, Kellner K, Khan SI, Perez Prado O, Sauchanka U, Stringer LC, Reda F, Thomas RJ 2016. Designing a new science-policy communication mechanism for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Environmental Science and Policy 63 122-131

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901116300600

Milton SJ, Richard W, Dean J, Leuteritz TEJ 2004. Opportunistic and multiple breeding attempts in plants and vertebrates of semi-deserts with unpredictable rainfall events through the year. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 59 (2) 43-53

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359190409519161#.VIVtyGctBHg

Dean WRJ, Williams JB 2004. Adaptations of birds for life in deserts with particular reference to Larks (Alaudidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 59 (2) 79-91

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359190409519166#.VGoKalItBHg

Williams AJ, Simmons RE 2006. The status of Curlew Sandpipers Calidris ferruginea on the Namib coast. International Wader studies 19

Website link:http://www.waderstudygroup.org/pubs/iws.php

Williams AJ, Simmons RE 2006. The status of Curlew Sandpipers Calidris ferruginea on the Namib coast. International Wader studies 19

Website link:http://www.waderstudygroup.org/pubs/iws.php

1994. Proceedings of Namibia's national workshop to combat desertification.

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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Spatiotemporal dynamics of fog and low clouds in the Namib.pdf	1.32 MB

Louw G 2011. Birds at risk in warming southern African deserts: inferences from behavioural and physiological thermoregulation.

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Birds at risk in warming southern African deserts_2011.pdf	1.2 MB

Seely MK, Klintenberg P, Hamilton WJ 2004. Solving environmental problems: Namibia, Sharing innovative experiences: Examples of the successful conservation and sustainable use of dryland biodiversity. 57-59

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Examples of the Successful Conservation and Sustainable Use of Dryland Biodiversity.pdf	6.08 MB

Selby MJ 1977. Paleowind directions in the Central Namib Desert, as indicated by ventifacts. Madoqua 10 (3) 195-198

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Paleowind directions in the central Namib Desert.pdf	756.59 KB

Seely MK 1978. Grassland productivity: the desert end of the curve. South African Journal of Science 74 295-297

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Grassland productivity_ the desert end of the curve.pdf	306.01 KB

Williamson G 1997. Preliminary account of the floristic zones of the Sperregebiet (Protected Diamond Area) in southwest Namibia. Dinteria 25 1-68

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Preliminary account of the floristic zones of the Sperregebiet_1997.pdf	4.93 MB

Henschel J, Klintenberg P, Roberts C, Seely M 2007. Long-term ecological Research from an arid, variable, drought-prone Environment. Sécheresse 18 (4) 342-347

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Long_term ecological Research_2007.pdf	251.73 KB

Lancaster J, Lancaster N, Seely MK 1984. Climate of the central Namib Desert.

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Climate of the central Namib Desert.pdf	4.44 MB

Jobst P, Kakukuru E, Kambutuku JR, Mouton D, Netha L, Nghitila TM, Shanyengana ES, Siyambango MS 1994. SDP 3: An investigation into the biophysical aspects and socio-economics of desertification in north western Namibia. (Climate variability, desertification and loss of biodiversity).

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Reuter C 2002. Why not camels?.

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Spotlight_053.pdf	2.74 MB

Thomas DSG, Knight M, Wiggs GFS 2005. Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming. Nature 435 1218 - 1221

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Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty first century global warming.pdf	512.5 KB

Sweet J, Burke A 2006. Country Pasture/Forage Resource Profiles.

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Country Pasture_Forage Resource Profiles Namibia.pdf	461.9 KB

Website link:http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Counprof/Namibia/namibia.htm

1989. Namibia. United Nations, Department of Technical Co-operation for Development.

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van den Bosch S 'At first they laughed at Me'.

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