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Bubenzer A, Bolten A 2008. The use of new elevation data (SRTM/ASTER) for the detection and morphometric quantification of Pleistocene megadunes (draa) in the eastern Sahara and the southern Namib. Geomorphology 102 (2) 221-231

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X08001840

Buffstein R 1984. The importance of microhabitat in thermoregulation and thermal conductance in two namib rodents - a crevice dweller, Aethomys namaquensis, and a burrow dweller, Gerbillurus paeba. Journal of Thermal Biology 9 (4) 235-241

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0306456584900020

Costa G, Petralia A, Conti E, Hänel C 1995. A 'mathematical' spider living on gravel plains of the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (4) 485-494

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Hulley SG, Hook SJ 2009. Intercomparison of versions 4, 4.1 and 5 of the MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity products and validation with laboratory measurements of sand samples from the Namib desert, Namibia. Remote Sensing of Environment 113 (6) 1313-1318

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425709000674

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

Bao H, Thiemens MH, Heine K 2001. Oxygen-17 excesses of the Central Namib gypcretes: spatial distribution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 192 (2) 125-135

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X01004460

Stone AEC, Thomas DSG, Viles HA 2010. Late Quaternary palaeohydrological changes in the northern Namib Sand Sea: New chronologies using OSL dating of interdigitated aeolian and water-lain interdune deposits. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 288 (1-4) 35-53

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018210000441

Naidu SG, Hattingh J 1986. Water balance and osmoregulation in Stips stali, a nocturnal tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 32 (10) 891-896

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191086901046

Bristow CS, Lancaster N 2004. Movement of a small slipfaceless dome dune in the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia. Geomorphology 59 (1-4) 189-196

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X03003234

Stone AEC 2013. Age and dynamics of the Namib Sand Sea: A review of chronological evidence and possible landscape development models. Journal of African Earth Sciences 82 70-87

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X13000307

Livingstone I, Bristow C, Bryant RG, Bullard J, White K, Wiggs GFS, Baas ACW, Bateman MD, Thomas DSG 2010. The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables. Aeolian Research 2 (2-3) 93-104

Website link:http://www.robert-bryant.staff.shef.ac.uk/Livingstone%20et%20al.,%202010.pdf

Eckardt FD, Spiro B 1999. The origin of sulphur in gypsum and dissolved sulphate in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 123 (3-4) 255-273

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073898001377

Lamb T, Bond JE 2013. A multilocus perspective on phylogenetic relationships in the Namib darkling beetle genus Onymacris (Tenebrionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (3) 757-765

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790312004368

Walden J, White K 1997. Investigation of the controls on dune colour in the Namib Sand Sea using mineral magnetic analyses. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 152 (1-4) 187-201

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X97001544

White K, Walden J, Gurney SD 2007. Spectral properties, iron oxide content and provenance of Namib dune sands. Geomorphology 86 (3-4) 219-229

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X06003990

van Wyk B-E, Burke A, Mannheimer C, Magee AR, Tilney PM, Rossouw AS 2010. A new species of Polemanniopsis (Apiaceae) from Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 76 (1) 153-157

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629909002798

Kühnelt W 1965. Nahrungsbeziehungen innerhalb der Tierwelt der Namibwüste (Südwestafrika). Nahrungsbeziehungen innerhalb der Tierwelt der Namibwüste (Südwestafrika) 185-190

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-25291-8_1

Burke A 2007. Recovery in Naturally Dynamic Environments: A Case Study from the Sperrgebiet, Southern African Arid Succulent Karoo. Environmental Management 40 (4) 635-648

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-006-0091-3

Lalley JS, Viles HA Recovery of lichen-dominated soil crusts in a hyper-arid desert. 17 1 (1-20) 2008

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-007-9153-y

Knetsch G 1938. Aus dem Sedimentstammbaum eines Trockengebietes (Beobachtung aus der südlichen Namib, Südwestafrika). Geologische Rundschau 29 (3-5) 334-347

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01806893

Birke M, Knödel K, Lange G, Yaramanci U 2007. Joint Interpretation. Environmental Geology 1099-1193

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-74671-3_20

Nicolson SW, Hanrahan SA 1986. Diuresis in a desert beetle? hormonal control of the malpighian tubules of Onymacris plana (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 156 (3) 407-413

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01101103

Strauß J, Lakes-Harlan R 2009. The evolutionary origin of auditory receptors in Tettigonioidea: the complex tibial organ of Schizodactylidae. Naturwissenschaften 96 (1) 143-146

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-008-0450-4

Jürgens N 2001. Aspects of botanical biodiversity in southern African arid regions - An outline of concepts and results. Biodiversity 53-70

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-06071-1_5

Rotmann KWG 1987. The collection, utilization and potential farming of red seaweeds in Namibia. Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium 41 301-305

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-4057-4_45

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

Gloudsley-Thompson JL 1975. The Desert as a Habitat. Rodents in Desert Environments 28 1-13

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-010-1944-6_1

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

Nørgaard T, Henschel JR, Wehner R 2007. Use of local cues in the night-time navigation of the wandering desert spider Leucorchestris arenicola (Araneae, Sparassidae). Journal of Comparative Physiology A 193 (2) 217-222

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-006-0178-6

von Willert DJ, Eller BM, Werger MJA, Brinckmann E 1990. Desert succulents and their life strategies. Vegetatio 90 (2) 133-143

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00033023

Jürgens N 2001. Remarkable Differences in Desertification Processes in the Northern and Southern Richtersveld (Northern Namaqualand, Republic of South Africa). Sustainable Land Use in Deserts 177-187

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-59560-8_18

Milton SJ 1991. Plant spinescence in arid southern Africa: does moisture mediate selection by mammals?. Oecologia 87 (2) 279-287

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00325267

Hamilton WJ 1985. Demographic consequences of a food and water shortage to desert Chacma Baboons, Papio ursinus. International Journal of Primatology 6 (5) 451-462

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02735570

Joubert EC, Harms TM, Muller A, Hipondoka M, Henschel JR 2012. A CFD study of wind patterns over a desert dune and the effect on seed dispersion. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 12 (1) 23-44

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10652-011-9230-3

Birkhofer K, Henschel J, Lubin Y 2012. Effects of extreme climatic events on small-scale spatial patterns: a 20-year study of the distribution of a desert spider. Oecologia 170 (3) 651-657

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-012-2342-8

Knetsch G 1937. Übersicht über die Geologie des südlichen Lüderitzlandes. Geologische Rundschau 28 (3-4) 208-223

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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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Nørgaard T, Henschel JR, Wehner R 2003. Long-distance navigation in the wandering desert spider Leucorchestris arenicola: can the slope of the dune surface provide a compass cue?. Journal of Comparative Psychology A 189 (11) 801-809

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-003-0455-6

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

Breckle S-W, Yair A, Veste M 2008. General Conclusions – Sand Dune Deserts, Desertification, Rehabilitation and Conservation. Arid Dune Ecosystems 200 441-459

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-75498-5_30

Lubke RA 2013. Restoration of Dune Ecosystems Following Mining in Madagascar and Namibia: Contrasting Restoration Approaches Adopted in Regions of High and Low Human Population Density. Restoration of Coastal Dunes 199-215

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33445-0_13

Harris L, Jones J, Schnitzer K 2012. Monuments in the Desert: A Maritime Landscape in Namibia. Journal of Maritime Archaeology 7 (1) 111-140

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11457-012-9087-8

Turner JS, Henschel JR, Lubin YD 1993. Thermal constraints on prey-capture behavior of a burrowing spider in a hot environment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 33 (1) 35-43

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00164344

Mignon P 2010. Spitzkoppe: The World of Granite Landforms. Geomorphological Landscapes of the World 155-162

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_16

Carp B 1961. African Jacana in the Namib desert. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 32 (2) 99

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1961.9633078#.VRLQMGc5ApE

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

Pietruszka RD, Hanrahan SA, Mitchell D, Seely MK 1986. Lizard herbivory in a sand dune environment: the diet of Angolosaurus skoogi. Oecologia 70 (4) 587-591

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00379909

Nel JAJ, Loutit R, Braby R, Somers MJ 2013. Resource dispersion, territory size and group size of black-backed jackals on a desert coast. Acta Theriologica 58 (2) 189-197

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13364-012-0112-y

Buffstein R, Campbell WE, Jarvis JUM 1985. Identification of crystalline allantoin in the urine of African Cricetidae (Rodentia) and its role in their water economy. Journal of Comparative Psychology B 155 (4) 493-499

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00684680

Lubin Y, Henschel J 1996. The influence of food supply on foraging behaviour in a desert Spider. Oecologia 105 (1) 64-73

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00328792