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A colourless gas with a faint tingling smell and taste. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is the source of carbon for plants. As carbon dioxide is heavier than air and does not support combustion, it is used in fire extinguishers. It is a normal constituent of the atmosphere, relatively innocuous in itself but playing an important role in the greenhouse effect. It is produced during the combustion of fossil fuels when the carbon content of the fuels reacts with the oxygen during combustion. It is also produced when living organisms respire. It is essential for plant nutrition and in the ocean phytoplankton is capable of absorbing and releasing large quantities of the gas. (Source: UVAROV / GILP96)

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Santana-Casiano JM, Gonzales-Davila M, Ucha IR 2009. Carbon dioxide fluxes in the Benguela upwelling system during winter and spring: A comparison between 2005 and 2006. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 56 (8-10) 533-541

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064508004323

González-Dávila M, Santana-Casiano JM, Ucha IR 2009. Seasonal variability of fCO2 in the Angola-Benguela region. Progress in Oceanography 83 (1-4) 124-133

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079661109001062

von Willert DJ, Eller BM, Brinckmann E, Baasch R 1982. CO2 gas exchange and transpiration of Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. fil. in the central Namib desert. Oecologia 55 (1) 21-29

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00386713

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Eller BM, Scheitler B 1983. CO2 exchange of CAM exhibiting succulents in the southern Namib desert in relation to microclimate and water stress. Photosynthesis Research 4 (3) 289-298

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00052133

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Baasch R, Eller BM 1983. Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. Fil. - A Cam Plant? Ecophysiological Investigations in the Central Namib Desert. Effects of Stress on Photosynthesis: Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology 3 185-191

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-6813-4_20

Bond WJ, Midgley GF, Woodward FI 2003. The importance of low atmospheric CO2 and fire in promoting the spread of grasslands and savannas. Global Change Biology 9 973-982

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00577.x/abstract

von Willert DJ, Armbrüster N, Drees T, Zaborowski M 2005. Welwitschia mirabilis: CAM or not CAM — what is the answer?. Functional Plant Biology 32 (5) 389-395

Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/FP01241.htm

Lange OL, Green TGA, Meyer A, Zellner H 2007. Water relations and carbon dioxide exchange of epiphytic lichens in the Namib fog desert. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 202 (6) 479 - 487

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253007000643

Lange OL, Green TGA, Melzera B, Meyera A, Zellner H 2006. Water relations and CO2 exchange of the terrestrial lichen Teloschistes capensis in the Namib fog desert: Measurements during two seasons in the field and under controlled conditions. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 201 (4) 268 - 280

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036725300500143X

O'Connor TG, Puttick JR, Hoffman MT 2014. Bush encroachment in southern Africa: changes and causes. African Journal of Range and Forage Science (Special Issue: Bush encroachment - changes, causes, consequences and cures) 31 (2) 67-88

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10220119.2014.939996#.VIcKnmctBHg

Veenendaal EM, Kolle O, Lloyd J 2004. Seasonal variation in energy fluxes and carbon dioxide exchange for a broad-leaved semi-arid savanna (Mopane woodland) in Southern Africa. Global Change Biology 10 (3) 318-328

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2003.00699.x/full

Nuule WKL 2018. The effect of bush clearing on soil respiration in north-central Namibia: Cheetah conservation fund and Erichsfelde.

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Drew G 2004. Modelling vegetation dynamics and their feedbacks over Southern Africa in response to climate change forcing.

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Tietjen B, Jeltsch F, Zehe E, Classen N, Groengroeft A, Schiffers K, Oldeland J 2009. Effects of climate change on the coupled dynamics of water and vegetation in drylands. Ecohydrology 3 (2) 226-237

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Kgope BS, Bond WJ, Midgley GF 2021. Growth responses of African savanna trees implicate atmospheric [CO2] as a driver of past and current changes in savanna tree cover. Austral Ecology 35 (2) 451-463

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Bond W, Woodward FI, Midgley GF 2000. Does elevated CO2 play a role in bush encroachment?.

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Louw GN, Nicolson SW, Seely MK 1986. Short Communication: Respiration beneath Desert Sand: Carbon Dioxide Diffusion and Respiratory Patterns in a Tenebrionid Beetle. Journal of Experimental Biology 120 443-447

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Oelofsen BW 1978. Atmosphere carbon dioxide/oxygen imbalance in the late cretaceous, hatching of eggs and the extinction of Biota. Palaentology Africana 21 45 - 51

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