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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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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

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167198725002727?via%3Dihub=

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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Li Y, Marais E, Wang L 2025. Decade-long isotope dataset of rainfall and non-rainfall waters in the central Namib Desert. Earth System Science Data

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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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Fomba KW, Quaye DT, Achterberg EP, Marais E, Herrmann H 2025. Saharan and Namib Dust Phosphorus Fluxes in the North and South Atlantic Regions. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 9 1465-1478

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Shikesho SD, Marais E, Midgley J 2025. Foraging behaviour of scatter-hoarding gerbils (Gerbilliscus (Gerbillurus)) influences seed fate and dispersal for key plant species in the Namib Desert. African Zoology

Website link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15627020.2025.2554093

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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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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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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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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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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Stone A, Leader G, Stratford D, Marks T, Efraim K, Bynoe R, Smedley R, Gunn A, Marais E 2024. Landscape evolution and hydrology at the Late Pleistocene archaeological site of Narabeb in the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia. Quaternary Science Advances 14

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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

Leader GM, Bynoe R, Marks T, Stone A, Efraim K, Stratford K, Marais E 2023. Revisiting the Acheulean at Namib IV in the Namib Desert, Namibia. Journal of Field Archaeology 48 (5) 380-394

Website link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00934690.2023.2219102?journalCode=yjfa20

Noy K, Silver M, Pesek O, Yizhaq H, Marais E, Karnieli A 2023. Spatial and spectral analysis of fairy circles in Namibia on a landscape scale using satellite image processing and machine learning analysis. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 121

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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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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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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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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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Leader GM, Marks T, Efraim K, Marais E 2022. Anibtanab: An earlier and middle stone age site in the Namib sand sea. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 69 89-102

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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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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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Scott L, Gil-Romera G, Marais E, Brook GA 2022. Holocene environmental change along the central Namib Desert escarpment derived from hyrax and owl dung. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 305 104746

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034666722001440

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=

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

Paillou P, Lopez S, Marais E, Scipal K 2020. Mapping paleohydrology of the ephemeral Kuiseb River, Namibia, from Radar Remote Sensing. Water 15 (5)

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Mapping Paleohydrology of the Ephemeral Kuiseb River_from Radar Remote Sensing.pdf	1.6 MB

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

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

Railsback LB, Kraft S, Liang F, Brook GA, Marais E, Cheng H, Edwards RL 2019. Control of insolation on stalagmite growth, rainfall, and migration of the tropical rain belt in northern Namibia over the last 100 kyr, as suggested by a rare MIS 5b-5c stalagmite from Dante Cave. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 535

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018219300471?via%3Dihub=

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

Railsback LB, Liang F, Brook GA, Voarintsoa NRG, Sletten HR, Marais E, Hardt B, Cheng H, Edwards RL 2018. The timing, two-pulsed nature, and variable climatic expression of the 4.2 ka event: A review and new high-resolution stalagmite data from Namibia. Quaternary Science Reviews 186 78-90

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027737911731003X?via%3Dihub=

Scott L, Romera GG, Marais E, Brook GA 2018. Pollen in fossil hyrax dung from Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3 reveals past environments in Namibia. Quaternary International (464) 260-272

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.054

Lamb T, Marais E, Bond JE 2017. A second locality for the Namib darkling beetle Onymacris brainei (Tenebrionidae, Coleoptera) and first report on its molecular phylogenetic placement. ZooKeys (687) 63-72

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A second locality for the Namib darkling beetle Onymacris brainei.pdf	1.19 MB

Ravi S, Wang L, Kaseke KF, Buynevich IV, Marais E 2017. Ecohydrological interactions within "fairy circles" in the Namib Desert: Revisiting the self-organizationhypothesis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122 405–414

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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

Scott L, Gil-Romera G, Marais E, Brook GA 2016. Evidence of vegetation change in Late Quaternary deposits of the Namib Desert and boundary region. Quaternary International 404 (B) 186

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215012574

Iiyambo N, Eifler D, Marais E, Kirchhof S 2016. Meroles anchietae: Size, growth and longevity. 12-15

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Railsback LB, Brook GA, Liang F, Marais E, Cheng H, Edwards RL 2016. A multi-proxy stalagmite record from northwestern Namibia of regional drying with increasing global-scale warmth over the last 47 kyr: The interplay of a globally shifting ITCZ with regional currents, winds, and rainfall. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 461 109-121

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A multi_proxy stalagmite record from northwestern Namibia of regional drying with increasing global_scale warmth over the last 47 kyr.pdf	2.58 MB

Adams AM, Marais E, Turner JS, Prendini L, Pinshow B 2016. Similar burrow architecture of three arid-zone scorpion species implies similar ecological function. The Science of Nature 103

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-016-1374-z

Marais E, Scott L, Gil-Romera G, Carrison JS 2015. The potential of palynology in fossil bat-dung from Arnhem Cave, Namibia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 70 (2) 109-115

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Brook GA, Cherkinsky A, Marais E, Todd N 2014. Rare elephant molar (Loxodonta africana zulu) from the Windhoek Spring Deposit, Namibia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa (Special Issue: A festschrift for Professor Mary Seely) 69 (3) 145-150

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Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2014.936329#.VHsipGctBHg

Stetten HR, Railsback LB, Liang F, Brook GA, Marais E, Hardt BF, Cheng H, Edwards RL 2013. A petrographic and geochemical record of climate change over the last 4600 years from a northern Namibia stalagmite, with evidence of abruptly wetter climate at the beginning of southern Africa's Iron Age. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 376 149-162

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018213001065

Brook GA, Cherkinsky A, Railsback LB, Marais E, Hipondoka MHT 2013. 14C Dating of Organic Residue and Carbonate from Stromatolites in Etosha Pan, Namibia: 14C Reservoir Effect, Correction of Published Ages, and Evidence of >8-m-Deep Lake During the Late Pleistocene. In: Jull, A.J.T. and Hatté, C. (eds). Proceedings of the 21st International Radiocarbon Conference. Radiocarbon 55 (2-3) 1156-1163

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14C Dating of Organic Residue and Carbonate from Stromatolites in Etosha Pan.pdf	212.22 KB

Brook GA, Railsback LB, Marais E 2011. Reassessment of carbonate ages by dating both carbonate and organic material from an Etosha Pan (Namibia) stromatolite: Evidence of humid phases during the last 20 ka. Quaternary International 229 (1-2) 24-37

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618210001989

Suhling F, Marais E 2010. Crenigomphus kavangoensis sp. nov. from the Okavango River, Namibia (Odonata: Gomphidae). International Journal of Odonatology 13 (2) 267-276

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Suhling F, Samways MJ, Simaika JP, Richter O, Marais E, Martens A, Kipping J 2010. Dragonfly diversity from the Cape to the Kavango. Biodiversity in southern Africa 2 - Patterns and processes at regional scale 64-69

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Ivester A, Brook G, Robbins LH, Murphy ML, Marais E 2010. A sedimentary record of environmental change at Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter, Northwest Kalahari Desert, Botswana. Palaeoecology of Africa: International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments Runge J 53-78

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271135863_A_sedimentary_record_of_environmental_change_at_Tsodilo_Hills_White_Paintings_Rock_Shelter_Northwest_Kalahari_Desert_Botswana

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