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The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings in a climatic region where the annual precipitation averages less than 10 inches per year. (Source: TOE / DOE)

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Cowlishaw G, Davies JG 1997. Flora of the Pro-Namib Desert Swakop River catchment, Namibia: Community classification and implications for desert vegetation sampling. Journal of Arid Environments 36 (2) 271 - 290

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396902037

Burke A, Esler KJ, Pienaar E, Barnard P 2003. Species richness and floristic relationships between mesas and their surroundings in southern Africa Nama Karoo. Diversity and Distributions 9 (1) 43 - 53

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/species-richness-and-floristic-relationships-between-mesas-and-their-surroundings-in-southern-african-nama-karoo/

Burke A, Mannheimer C 2003. Towards a density measure for assessments of arid plant populations - examples from the southern Namib Desert. African Journal of Ecology 41 (3) 254 - 256

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2028.2003.00447.x/abstract

Burke A 2002. Properties of soil pockets on arid Nama Karoo inselbergs-the effect of geology and derived landforms. Journal of Arid Environments 50 (2) 219 - 234

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196301909073

Burke A 2002. Plant communities of a Central Namib inselberg landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science 13 (4) 483 - 492

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236733

Burke A 2002. Island-matrix relationship in Nama Karoo inselberg landscapes. Part II: Are some inselbergs better sources than others?. Plant Ecology 158 41 - 48

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/islandmatrix-relationships-in-nama-karoo-inselberg-landscapes-part-ii-are-some-inselbergs-better-sources-than-others/

Burke A 2003. How special are Etendeka mesas? Flora and elevation gradients in an arid landscape in north-west Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 55 (4) 747 - 764

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302002938

Burke A 2004. From plains to inselbergs: Species in special habitats as indicators for climate change?. Journal of Biogeography 31 831 - 841

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00984.x/full

Burke A 2001. Classification and ordination of plant communities of the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Journal of Vegetation Science 12 (1) 53 - 60

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236673

Burke A 2004. A preliminary account of patterns of endemism in Namibia's Sperrgebiet - the succulent karoo. Journal of Biogeography 31 1613 - 1622

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/a-preliminary-account-of-patterns-of-endemism-in-namibias-sperrgebiet-the-succulent-karoo/

Burke A 1995. Geigeria alata in the Namib desert: Seed heteromorphism in an extremely arid environment. Journal of Vegetation Science 6 (4) 473 - 478

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236345

O'Farrell PJ, de Lange WJ, le Maitre D, Reyers B, Blignaut JN, Milton SJ, Atkinson D, Egoh B, Maherry A, Colvin C, Cowling RM 2011. Possibilities and pitfalls presented by a pragmatic approach to ecosystem service valuation in an arid biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (6) 612 - 623

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4893

Winterbottom JM 1973. The relationships of the avifauna of the south west arid area of Africa. Zoologica africana 8 83 - 90

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Winterbottom JM 1972. The avifauna of the arid districts of Africa. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 85 131 - 141

Website link:http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/

Werger MJA 1986. The Karoo and southern Kalahari. Ecosystems of the world. Hot deserts and arid shrublands 283 - 359

Walter H 1986. The Namib Desert. Ecosystems of the world: Hot deserts and arid shrublands 245-282

Burke A 2015. Rare plants in a Succulent – Nama Karoo ecotone in southern Africa. African Journal of Ecology 53 (1) 93-102

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12206/full

Kaseke KF, Mills AJ, Henschel J, Seely MK, Esler K, Brown R 2012. The effects of desert pavements (gravel mulch) on soil micro-hydrology. Pure and Applied Geophysics 169 (5-6) 873-880

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00024-011-0367-2

Leggett K, Fennessy J, Schneider S 2003. Seasonal distributions and social dynamics of elephants in the Hoanib River catchment, northwestern Namibia. African Zoology 38 (2) 305-316

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/38/2/EJC17882

Ramey RR, Brown LM Desert-dwelling Elephants in the Hoarusib, Hoanib, and Uniab Rivers. Reports of 2011 - 2015. Pachyderm

Website link:http://desertelephantconservation.org/NewsAndReports.html#2011 Heading

Leggett KEA, Brown LM, Ramey RR 2011. Matriarchal associations and reproduction in a remnant subpopulation of desert-dwelling elephants. Pachyderm 49 20-32

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Macko S, Soderberg K, Henschel J, Billmark K, Swap R 2010. Linking fog water use by plants in the coastal Namib Desert to carbon and nitrogen cycles along aridity gradients.

Website link:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFM.B51A0291M

Lloyd P, Little RM, Crowe TM 2000. Investigator Effects on the Nesting Success of Arid-Zone Birds. Journal of Field Ornithology 71 (2) 227-235

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4514483

Gess SK, Gess FW 2004. A comparative overview of flower visiting by Non-Apis Bees in the semi-arid to arid areas of southern Africa. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77 (4) 602-618

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25086245

Kranner I, Beckett R, Hochman A, Nash TH 2008. Desiccation-Tolerance in Lichens: A Review. The Bryologist 111 (4) 576-593

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/20485752

Williamson G 2011. A new Drimia sp. from the Namib Desert in Namibia. Cactus and Succulent Journal 83 (6) 286-289

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.2985/0007-9367-83.6.286

Otte D 2014. Twenty-six new species of grasshoppers from the southern African arid zone (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Lentulidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 140 (1) 293-647

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276511130_Twenty-Six_New_Species_of_Grasshoppers_from_the_Southern_African_Arid_Zone_Orthoptera_AcridoideaLentulidae

Frost PGH, Siegfried WR, Burger AE 1976. Behavioural adaptations of the Jackass penguin, Spheniscus demersus to a hot, arid environment. Journal of Zoology 179 (2) 164-187

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1976.tb02289.x/abstract

Burney DA, Brook GA, Cowart JB 1994. A Holocene pollen record for the Kalahari Desert of Botswana from a U-series dated speleothem. The Holocene 4 (3) 225-232

Website link:http://hol.sagepub.com/content/4/3/225.abstract

Gil-Romera G, Scott L, Marais E, Brook GA 1991. Holocene environmental changes in Namibia inferred from pollen analysis of swamp and lake deposits. The Holocene 16 (8) 1073-1084

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Rössl R 2000. Reproduktionsbiologie, Entwicklungsbiologie und Ökologie von sympatrischen Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera: Insecta) des Kuiseb bei Gobabeb in der Namib Wüste / Namibia.

Website link:http://d-nb.info/960963324

Platnick NI, Griffin E 1988. On the first African and Australian spiders of the genus Cyrioctea (Araneae: Zodariidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 96 (3) 359-362

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Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25009699

Marsh AC 1985. Thermal responses and temperature tolerance in a diurnal desert ant, Ocymyrmex barbiger. Physiological Zoology 58 (6) 629-636

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/30156067

Viljoen PJ 1988. The ecology of the desert-dwelling elephants Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) of the western Damaraland and Kaokoland.

Website link:https://univofpretoria.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A934855106&databaseList=638%2C283&lang=en

Watson A 1979. Gypsum crusts in deserts. Journal of Arid. Journal of Arid Environments 2 (1) 3-21

Wilkinson MJ 1988. Tertiary events in the Tumas River basin, central Namib Desert: geology and geomorphology of the Naarip plain. 137-164

Wasiolka B, Jeltsch F, Henschel J, Blaum N 2010. Space use of the spotted sand lizard (Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata) under different degradation states. African Journal of Ecology 48 (1) 96-104

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01085.x/abstract

Beyer M, Koeniger P, Gaj M, Hamutoko JT, Wanke H, Himmelsbach T 2016. A deuterium-based labeling technique for the investigation of rooting depths, water uptake dynamics and unsaturated zone water transport in semiarid environments. Journal of Hydrology 533 627-643

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169415009853

Lauterbach M, de Wet van der Merwe P, Keßler L, Pirie MD, Bellstedt DU, Kadereit G Evolution of leaf anatomy in arid environments – A case study in southern African Tetraena and Roepera (Zygophyllaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 97 129-144

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790316000178

Hoetzel S, Dupont LM, Wefer G 2015. Miocene–Pliocene vegetation change in south-western Africa (ODP Site 1081, offshore Namibia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 423 102-108

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018215000516

Sonderberg K, Henschel J, Swap RJ, Macko SA 2014. Sulphur isotopes in the central Namib Desert ecosystem. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa (Special Issue: A festschrift for Professor Mary Seely) 69 (3) 217-233

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Burke A 2004. Conserving tropical biodiversity: the arid end of the scale. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19 225-226

Website link:http://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/abstract/S0169-5347(04)00066-7

Burke A 2003. The role of inselbergs in a changing world - global trends. Diversity and Distributions 9 375-383

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1472-4642.2003.00035.x/full

Burke A 1997. Is the grass always greener at some sites? - A contribution to patch dynamics in arid regions. Tropical Ecology 38 125-127

Mainah J 2001. The distribution and association of Grewia flava with other species in the Kalahari environment. Botswana Notes and Records 33 115-127

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980302

Lancaster N 1981. Paleoenvironmental implications of fixed dune systems in Southern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 33 (4) 327-346

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018281900250

Holter P, Scholtz CH, Stenseng L 2009. Desert detritivory: Nutritional ecology of a dung beetle (Pachysoma glentoni) subsisting on plant litter in arid South African sand dunes. Journal of Arid Environments 73 (12) 1090-1094

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Midgley JJ, Cowling RM, Hendricks H, Desmet PG, Esler K, Rundel P 1997. Population ecology of tree succulents (Aloe and Pachypodium) in the arid western Cape: decline of keystone species. Biodiversity and Conservation 6 (6) 869-876

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FB%3ABIOC.0000010407.65612.27

Vlieghe K, Picker M, Ross-Gillespie V, Erni B 2015. Herbivory by subterranean termite colonies and the development of fairy circles in SW Namibia. Ecological Entomology 40 42-49

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/een.12157/abstract

Juergens N 2014. Exploring common ground for different hypotheses on Namib fairy circles. Ecography 10.1111/ecog.01232

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.01232/abstract