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Treonis AM, Bell A, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G 2025. Namibian fairy circles: Hostile territory for soil nematodes. PLoS One 20 (8)

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Ebner M, Roth-Nebelsick A, Bocherens H, Gschwender F, Baumeister M, Ebner NM, Hohberg K, Gan HY, Schneider C, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Lehmitz R, Miranda T 2025. The fog harvesting Namib Desert dune grass Stipagrostis sabulicola promotes niche building by modifying substrate and atmosphere conditions. Journal of Arid Environments 227

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Li Y, Wang L, Diersing CJ, Qiao N, Liu Y, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E 2025. El Niño intensified fog formation in the Namib Desert. Earth's Future 13

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Maphosa S, Steyn M, Lebre PH, Gokul JK, Convey P, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA 2025. Rhizosphere bacterial communities of Namib Desert plant species: Evidence of specialised plant-microbe associations. Microbiological Research 293

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Feng Y, Li C, Sandino TS, Xiong C, Eldridge D, Gross N, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Ochoa V, Gozalo B, Guirado E, García-Gómez M, Valencia E, Berdugo M, Asensio S, Martínez-Valderrama J, Mendoza B, Berhe A, Cutler N, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E 2025. Soil microbial genomic responses to aridity-driven elemental imbalance across global biomes. Research Square

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Mupambwa HA, Handura B, Howoses VA, Haulofu M, Abaye O, Miller T, Kasarda M, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Gawanab W, Mafwila SK 2025. Exploring freshwater generation in the Namib Desert: The potential of passive fog harvesting and solar stills. Soil and Tillage Research 254

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Hatt SA, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G 2024. A preliminary botanical assessment of an isolated inselberg archipelago in the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia. Namibian Journal of Environment 9 (B) 1-10

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Rawson CJ, Nemmers L, Criswell S, Smythe AB, Burke AK, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Treonis AM 2024. Description of Panagrolaimus namibiensis n. sp. (Rhabditida: Panagrolaimidae), an Anhydrobiotic Nematode from the Namib Desert of Namibia. Journal of Nematology 56

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Treonis AM, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G 2024. Soil nematode communities vary among populations of the iconic desert plant, Welwitschia mirabilis. Pedobiologia 103

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031405624034644

Gross N, Maestre FT, Liancourt P, Berdugo M, Martin R, Gozalo B, Ochoa V, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Maire V, Saiz H, Soliveres S, Valencia E, Eldridge DJ, Guirado E, Jabot F, Asensio S, Gaitán JJ, García-Gómez M, Martinez P, Martínez-Valderrama J, Mendoza BJ, Moreno-Jiménez E, Pescador DS, Plaza C, Santaolaria Pijuan I, Abedi M, Ahumada RJ, Amghar F, Arroyo AI, Bahalkeh K, Bailey L, Salem FB, Blaum N, Boldgiv B, Bowker MA, Branquinho C, van den Brink L, Bu C, Canessa R, del P. Castillo-Monroy A, Castro H, Castro P, Chibani R, Conceição AA, Darrouzet-Nardi A, Davila YC, Deák B, Donoso DA, Durán J, Espinosa C, Fajardo A, Farzam M, Ferrante D, Franzese J, Fraser L, Gonzalez S, Gusman-Montalvan E, Hernández-Hernández RM, Hölzel N, Huber-Sannwald E, Jadan O, Jeltsch F, Jentsch A, Ju M, Kaseke KF, Kindermann L, le Roux P, Linstädter A, Louw MA, Mabaso M, Maggs-Kölling G 2024. Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world. Nature 632 808-814

Website link:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07731-3

León-Sobrino C, Ramond J-B, Coclet C, Kapitango R-M, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA 2024. Temporal dynamics of microbial transcription in wetted hyperarid desert soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 100

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Gan HY, Hohberg K, Schneider C, Ebner M, Marais E, Miranda T, Lehmitz R, Maggs-Kölling G, Bocherens H 2024. The hidden oases: unveiling trophic dynamics in Namib's fog plant ecosystem. Scientific Reports 14

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Vikram S, Ramond J-B, Ortiz M, Maggs-Kölling G, Pelser K, Cowan DA 2023. Soil fungal diversity and assembly along a xeric stress gradient in the central Namib Desert. Fungal Biology 127 (4) 997-1003

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Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878614623000284?via%3Dihub=

Siebert SJ, Palacio S, Luzuriaga AL, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Matesanz S, Prieto M, Pueyo Y, Rajakaruna N, Sánchez AM, Claassens S 2023. GYPWORLD Africa: Setting an agenda for gypsum ecosystem research in southern Africa. South African Journal of Science 119 (9/10)

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Cowan DA, Cary SG, DiRuggiero J, Eckardt F, Ferrari B, Hopkins DW, Lebre PH, Maggs-Kölling G, Pointing SB, Ramond J-B, Tribbia D, Warren-Rhodes K 2023. 'Follow the Water': Microbial water acquisition in desert soils. Microorganisms 11

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Hilland RVJ, Bernhofer C, Bohmann M, Christen A, Katurji M, Maggs-Kölling G, Krauss M, Larsen JA, Marais E, Pitacco A, Schumacher B, Spirig R, Vendrame N, Vogt R 2022. The Namib Turbulence Experiment: Investigating surface-atmosphere heat transfer in three dimensions. BAMS E741-E760

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de los Ríos A, Garrido‑Benavent I, Limón A, Cason ED, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan D, Valverde A 2022. Novel lichen‑dominated hypolithic communities in the Namib Desert. Microbial Ecology 83 (4) 1-13

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Bosch J, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Ramond J-B, Lebre PH, Eckardt F, Cowan DA 2022. Water inputs across the Namib Desert: implications for dryland edaphic microbiology. Frontiers of Biogeography

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Martinez-Alvarez L, Ramond J-B, Vikram S, León-Sobrino C, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA 2022. With a pinch of salt: metagenomic insights into Namib Desert salt pan 2 microbial mats and halites reveal functionally adapted and competitive 3 communities. BioRxiv

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Vogt R, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Göttsche F-M, Cermak J, Seely MK 2022. A decade of solar and terrestrial radiation monitoring at Gobabeb for BSRN. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 69 141-159

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Medeiros ID, Ibáñez A, Arnold AE, Hedderson TA, Miadlikowska J, Flakus A, Carbone I, LaGreca S, Magain N, Mazur E, Castillo RV, Geml J, Kaup M, Maggs-Kölling G, Oita S, Seelan JSS, Terlova E, Hom EFY, Lewis LA, Lutzoni F 2022. Eco-phylogenetic study of Trebouxia in southern Africa reveals interbiome connectivity and potential endemism in a green algal lichen photobiont. American Journal of Botany 111 (12)

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Göttsche F-M, Cermak J, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G 2022. Validation of Satellite-Retrieved Land Surface Temperature (LST) Products at Gobabeb, Namibia. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 69 43-63

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Treonis AM, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G 2022. Nematode communities indicate diverse soil functioning across a fog gradient in the Namib Desert gravel plains. Ecology and Evolution 12 (6) e9013

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Wan T, Liu Z, Leitch IJ, Xin H, Maggs-Kölling G, Gong Y, Li Z, Marais E, Liao Y, Dai C, Liu F, Wu Q, Song C, Zhou Y, Huang W, Jiang K, Wang Q, Yang Y, Zhong Z, Yang M, Yan X 2021. The Welwitschia genome reveals a unique biology underpinning extreme longevity in deserts. Nature Communications 12

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Gwizdala M, Lebre P, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Cowan D, Krüger T 2021. Sub‐lithic photosynthesis in hot desert habitats. Environmental Microbiology

Website link:https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.15505

Kool D, Agra E, Drabkin A, Duncan A, Fendinat PP, Leduc S, Lupovitch G, Nambwandja AN, Ndilenga NS, Thi TN, Poodiack B, Sagi L, Shmuel Y, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Pinshow B, Turner JS, Agam N 2021. The overlooked non-rainfall water input sibling of fog and dew: Daily water vapor adsorption on a !Nara hummock in the Namib Sand Sea. Journal of Hydrology 598

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169421004674?via%3Dihub=

Qiao N, Zhang L, Huang C, Jiao W, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Wang L 2020. Satellite observed positive impacts of fog on vegetation. Geophysical Research Letters 47 (12)

Website link:https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL088428

Qu EB, Omelon CR, Oren A, Meslier V, Cowan DA, Maggs-Kölling G, DiRuggiero J 2020. Trophic selective pressures organize the composition of endolithic microbial communities from global deserts. Frontiers in Microbiology 10

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Trophic selective pressures organize the composition of endolithic microbial communities from global deserts.pdf	6.08 MB

LeBlanc SE, Redemann J, Flynn C, Pistone K, Kacenelenbogen M, Segal-Rosenheimer M, Shinozuka Y, Dunagan S, Dahlgren RP, Meyer K, Podolske J, Howell SG, Freitag S, Small-Griswold J, Holben B, Diamond M, Wood R, Formenti P, Piketh S, Maggs-Kölling G, Gerber M, Namwoonde A 2020. Above-cloud aerosol optical depth from airborne observations in the southeast Atlantic. Atmopheric Chemistry and Physics 20 1565-1590

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Doniger T, Adams JM, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Sherman C, Kerfahi D, Yang Y, Steinberger Y 2020. The 'fertile island effect' of Welwitschia plants on soil microbiota is influenced by plant gender. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 96 (11)

Website link:https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article-abstract/96/11/fiaa186/5910483?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Crous PW, Cowan DA, Maggs-Kölling G, Yilmaz N, Larsson E, Angelini C, Brandrud TE, Dearnaley JDW, Dima B, Dovana F, Fechner N, García D 2020. Fungal Planet description sheets: 1112–1181. Persoonia 45 (1) 251-409

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Collins GE, Hogg ID, Baxter JR, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA 2019. Ancient landscapes of the Namib Desert harbor high levels of genetic variability and deeply divergent lineages for Collembola. Ecology and Evolution 9 4969-4979

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Ancient landscapes of the Namib Desert harbor high levels of genetic variability and deeply divergent lineages for Collembola.pdf	851.58 KB
Ancient landscapes of the Namib Desert harbor high levels of genetic variability and deeply divergent lineages for Collembola_Supporting Information.docx	440.38 KB

Unc A, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Sherman C, Doniger T, Steinberger Y 2019. Soil bacterial community associated with the dioecious Acanthosicyos horridus in the Namib Desert. Biology and Fertility of Soils 55 (4) 393–403

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00374-019-01358-7

Adesina JA, Piketh SJ, Formenti P, Maggs-Kölling G, Holben BN, Sorokin MG 2019. Aerosol optical properties and direct radiative effect over Gobabeb, Namibia. Clean Air Journal 29 (2) 1-11

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Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Sherman C, Doniger T, Liu R, Tripathi BM, Steinberger Y 2019. Profiling soil free-living nematodes in the Namib Desert, Namibia. Journal of Arid Land 12 130–143

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Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40333-019-0018-5

Spirig R, Vogt R, Larsen JA, Feigenwinter C, Wicki A, Franceschi J, Parlow E, Adler B, Kalthoff N, Cermak J, Andersen H, Fuchs J, Bott A, Hacker M, Wagner N, Maggs-Kölling G, Wassenaar T, Seely MK 2019. Probing the fog life-cycles in the Namib desert. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2019 2491-2507

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Probing the fog life_cycles in the Namib desert.pdf	22.68 MB

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0142.1

Cowan DA, Hopkins DW, Jones BE, Maggs-Kölling G, Majewska R, Ramond J-B 2019. Microbiomics of Namib Desert habitats. Extremophiles 24 17-29

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-019-01122-7

Wang L, Kaseke KF, Ravi S, Jiao W, Mushi R, Shuuya T, Maggs-Kölling G 2019. Convergent vegetation fog and dew water use in the Namib Desert. Ecohydrology 12 (7)

Website link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eco.2130

Ramond J-B, Baxter J, Maggs-Kölling G, Martinez-Alvarez L, Read DA, León-Sobrino C, van der Walt AJ, Cowan DA 2019. Microbial ecology of the Namib Desert. Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments: Astrobiology Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond 113-143

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128127421000064

Bolger DT, Bieluch K, Krivak-Tetley F, Maggs-Kölling G, Tjitekulu J 2018. Designing a Real-World Course for Environmental Studies Students: Entering a Social-Ecological System. Sustainability (10)

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León-Sobrino C, Ramond J-B, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA 2018. Nutrient acquisition, rather than stress response over diel cycles, drives microbial transcription in a dessicated Namib Desert soil. bioRxiv

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Marasco R, Mosqueira MJ, Fusi M, Ramond J-B, Merlino G, Booth JM, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA, Daffonchio D 2018. Rhizosheath microbial community assembly of sympatric desert speargrasses is independent of the plant host. Microbiome 6 (215)

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Hinchliffe G, Bollard-Breen B, Cowan D, Doshi A, Gillman LN, Maggs-Kölling G, de los Ríos A, Pointing SB 2017. Advanced Photogrammetry to Assess Lichen Colonization in the Hyper-Arid Namib Desert. Frontiers in Microbiology (8)

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Gerber M, Piketh SJ, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Turner JS, Berner JM 2017. Strategies of Acanthosicyos horridus (!nara) to exploit alternative atmospheric moisture sources in the hyper-arid Namib Desert. South African Journal of Botany 109 335-336

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Strategies of Acanthosicyos horridus to exploit alternative atmospheric moisture sources in the hyper_arid Namib Desert.pdf	78.84 KB

McBenedict B, Chimwamurombe P, Kwembeya E, Maggs-Kölling G 2016. Genetic Diversity of Namibian Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. BR. (Pearl Millet) landraces analyzed by SSR and morphological markers. The Scientific World Journal 2016 1439739

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Maggs-Kölling G 2014. Training beyond 50 - Gobabeb has been involved in training and education since its inception. How can we grow the training programme while capitalising on our research strengths?. Gobabeb Times 9 (2) 4-5

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Sherman C, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Adams J, Steinberger Y Abiotic and plant gender effects on the structure and function of soil microbial communities associated with Acanthosicyos horridus (Nara) in the Namibian sand-dune desert ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments (163) 50-58

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.01.009

Vogt R, Maggs-Kölling G, Seely MK Lifting the fog in the central Namib - where did it come from?.

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Strohbach B, Coetzee M, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G Ecosystems of Namibia Map vs4.0.

Website link:https://zenodo.org/records/17218337

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