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Seely MK 1986. Chapter 12: Sand dune communities. The ecology of desert communities 348-382

Website link:http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19921158774.html;jsessionid=88ADE9CB1E4BD2706EB8FC7E9DE80BDE

Burke A 2001. Determining landscape function and ecosystem dynamics: contribution to ecological restoration in the southern Namib desert. Ambio 30 (1) 29-36

Website link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11351790

Olivier J 1992. Some spatial and temporal aspects of fog in the Namib. SA Geographer 19 (1/2) 108-126

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/11741

Eckardt FD, Drake N, Goudie AS, White K, Viles H 2001. The role of playas in pedogenic gypsum crust formation in the Central Namib Desert: a theoretical model. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26 (11) 1177-1193

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.264/abstract

Kinahan J, Kinahan JHA 2010. The Namib Desert Archaeological Survey. Antiquity 084 (325)

Website link:http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/kinahan325/

Archaeology Namibia.

Website link:http://www.archaeologynamibia.com/

Hauffe HC, Searle JB, Seely MK 1994. The taxonomic status of two morphotypes of the tenebrionid Onymacris rugatipennis: indications from behavioural and genetical studies. Journal of Zoology 233 (2) 193-201

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1994.tb08583.x/abstract;jsessionid=EFB49D78DDB1474BAD38520AECC42C29.d04t03?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

McClain E, Seely MK, Hadley NF, Gray V 1985. Wax Blooms in Tenebrionid Beetles of the Namib Desert: Correlations with Environment. Ecology 66 (1) 112-118

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1941311?uid=4&sid=21102338722657

Heine K Little Ice Age climatic fluctuations in the Namib Desert, Namibia, and adjacent areas: Evidence of exceptionally large floods from slack water deposits and desert soil sequences. Paleoecology of Quaternary Drylands Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 102 (137-165) 2004

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-44930-0_9

Slattery MC 1990. Barchan Migration on the Kuiseb River Delta, Namibia. South African Geographical Journal 72 (1) 5-10

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.1990.9713540#.UZ9ko9zwCUk

Henschel JR, Seely MK 2008. Ecophysiology of atmospheric moisture in the Namib Desert. Atmospheric Research 87 (3-4) 362-368

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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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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196311000061

Fielden LJ, Perrin MR, Hickman GC 1990. Feeding ecology and foraging behaviour of the Namib Desert golden mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Journal of Zoology 220 367-389

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1990.tb04313.x/abstract

Wassenaar TD, Henschel JR, Pfaffenthaler MM, Mutotaa EN, Seely MK, Pallett J 2013. Ensuring the future of the Namib's biodiversity: Ecological restoration as a key management response to a mining boom. Journal of Arid Environments 93 126-135

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Hermann H-W, Branch WR 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93 94-115

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Jacobson PJ, Jacobson KM 2013. Hydrologic controls of physical and ecological processes in Namib Desert ephemeral rivers: Implications for conservation and Management. Journal of Arid Environments 93 80-93

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Jürgens N, Oldeland J, Hachfeld B, Erb E, Schultz C 2013. Ecology and spatial patterns of large-scale vegetation units within the central Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 93 59-79

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312002522

Stone AEC, Thomas D 2013. Casting new light on late Quaternary environmental and palaeohydrological change in the Namib Desert: A review of the application of optically stimulated luminescence in the Region. Journal of Arid environments 93 40-58

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312000419

Livingstone I 2013. Aeolian geomorphology of the Namib Sand Sea. Journal of Arid Environments 93 30-39

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312002315

Viles HA, Goudie AS 2013. Weathering in the central Namib Desert, Namibia: Controls, processes and implications. Journal of Arid Environments 93 20-29

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196311002862

Eckardt FD, Soderberg K, Coop LJ, Muller AA, Vickery KJ, Grandin RD, Jack C, Kapalanga TS, Henschel J 2013. The nature of moisture at Gobabeb, in the central Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 93 7-19

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312000432

Henschel JR, Lancaster N 2013. Gobabeb – 50 years of Namib Desert Research. Journal of Arid Environments 93 116-125

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312002583

Robinson MD, Barrows CW 2013. Namibian and North American sand-diving lizards. Journal of Arid Environments 93 116-125

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312002297

Broekhuysen GJ, Liversidge R, Rand RW 1961. The South African Gannet Morus capensis 1. Distribution and movements. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 32 (1) 1 - 19

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1961.9633066#.VRLP0Wc5ApE

Smith RMH, Mason TR 1998. Sedimentary environments and trace fossils of tertiary Oasis deposits in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia. Palaios 13 (6) 547-599

Website link:http://palaios.geoscienceworld.org/content/13/6/547.short

Marker ME 1977. A Long-Return Geomorphic Event in the Namib Desert, South West Africa. Area 9 (3) 209-213

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20001237?uid=4&sid=21102177069711

Ward D, Seely MK 1996. Adaptation and Constraint in the Evolution of the Physiology and Behavior of the Namib Desert Tenebrionid Beetle Genus Onymacris. Evolution 50 (3) 1231-1240

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2410663?uid=4&sid=21102165041421

Hamilton III WJ, Seely MK 1976. Fog basking by the Namib Desert beetle, Onymacris unguicularis. Nature 262 (5566) 284-285

Website link:https://www.nature.com/articles/262284a0

Bartholomew GA, Lighton JRB, Louw GN 1985. Energetics of locomotion and patterns of respiration in tenebrionid beetles from the Namib Desert. Journal of Comparative Psychology B 155 (2) 155-162

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00685208

Seely MK, Lewis JC, O'Brien KA, Suttle AE 1983. Fog response of tenebrionid beetles in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 6 (2) 135-143

Website link:http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201302616026

Seely MK 1979. Irregular fog as a water source for desert dune beetles. Oecologia 42 (2) 213-227

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00344858

Naidu SG, Hattingh J 1988. Water balance and osmoregulation in Physadesmia globosa, a diurnal tenebrionid beetle from the Namib desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 34 (10) 911-917

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191088901266

Water vapor harvesting: Namib desert beetle. Ask Nature

Website link:http://www.asknature.org/strategy/dc2127c6d0008a6c7748e4e4474e7aa1

Irwin ME, Kirk-Spriggs AH 1998. Species composition and flight phenology of stiletto flies and window flies occurring along the Kuiseb River, Gobabeb, Namibia.

Website link:http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/research/therevid/namibia.html

Day JA 1993. The major ion chemistry of some southern African saline Systems. Developments in Hydrobiology 87 37-59

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-011-2076-0_4

Day JA, Seely MK 1988. Physical and chemical conditions in an hypersaline spring in the Namib Desert. Hydrobiologia 160 (2) 141-153

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00015477

Grodek T, Benito G, Botero BA, Jacoby Y, Porat N, Haviv I, Cloete G, Enzel Y 2013. The last millennium largest floods in the hyperarid Kuiseb River basin, Namib Desert. Journal of Quaternary Science 28 (3) 258-270

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.2618/abstract;jsessionid=576A1E3F5C8CB0B02B9A2C7FD89A2B90.d01t02?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

Henschel JR, Tilson RL 1988. How much does a spotted hyaena eat: perspective from the Namib Desert. African Journal of Ecology 26 (4) 247-255

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1988.tb00977.x/abstract

Robinson MD, Seely MK 1980. Physical and biotic environments of the southern Namib dune ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 3 (3) 183-203

Website link:http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19802606675.html;jsessionid=F6F8EDA82AF09F06CFE62C5D342E054D?gitCommit=4.13.29

Braine SG 1984. Breeding of two passerines after high rainfall in the Skeleton Coast Park. South African Journal of Science 80 (4) 188 - 189

Cermak J 2012. Low Clouds and Fog Along the South-Western African Coast – Satellite-Based Retrieval and Spatial Patterns. Atmospheric Research 116 15-21

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809511000615

Hamilton III WJ, Tilson RL 1982. Solitary male Chacma baboons in a desert canyon. Ameriacan Journal of Primatology 2 (2) 149-158

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.1350020203/abstract

Nørgaard T, Dacke M 2010. Fog-basking behaviour and water collection efficiency in Namib Desert Darkling beetles. Frontiers in Zoology 7 23

Website link:http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/7/1/23

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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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

Hamilton III WJ, Penrith M-L 1977. Description of an individual possible hybrid tenebrionid beetle and the habitat preference of the parental species. The Canadian Entomologist 109 701-710

Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8554747

Hamilton III WJ, Buskirk RE, Buskirk WH 1976. Defense of Space and Resources by Chacma (Papio Ursinus) Baboon Troops in an African Desert and Swamp. Ecology 57 (6) 1264-1272

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1935050

Brain CK 1974. The use of microfaunal remains as habitat indicators in the Namib. (2) 55 - 60

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3858068

Clousley-Thompson JL 1990. Dunes of the Namib. Environmental Conservation 17 (1) 70-72

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0376892900017318

Kellenberger R, Kneubühler M, Kellenberger TW 2009. Spectral characterisation and mapping of Welwitschia mirabilis in Namibia. IEEE International, IGARSS 4 IV362-IV365

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